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“Science and Technology for Sustainability,” a free, public lecture by Harvard University’s William Clark, will focus on linking research to policy by, for instance, moving from arguments over statistics and reports generated by hundreds of different businesses, non-profits and government agencies to debates based on mutually agreed-on environmental data.

In its 4.5 billion years, Earth has evolved from its hot, violent birth to the celebrated watery blue planet that stands out in pictures from space. But in a new book, two noted ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø astrobiologists say the planet already has begun the long process of devolving into a burned-out cinder, eventually to be swallowed by the sun.

CAMPUS BOUNTY: The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø was even more generous to the University District Food Bank this year than it was last.

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The Center for Ecogenetics and Environmental Health (CEEH) is offering pilot project funding in broadly-defined areas of “gene-environment interactions.

A study by ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø physicians Dr. Zane Brown, professor of obstetrics and gynecology; Dr. Lawrence Corey, professor of medicine and pediatrics; and Dr. Anna Wald, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø associate professor of medicine and epidemiology and their colleagues confirms that Caesarian section does prevent transmission of HSV (herpes simplex virus).

For decades researchers have pondered a mysterious gender disparity in religious commitment. It turns out they may have been asking the wrong question, according to a ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø religious scholar. Instead of asking why women are more religious than men, they should have been asking why men are less religious than women, said Rodney Stark, a ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø professor of sociology and comparative religion.