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Illegal Wildlife Trade: The Numbers in 2018
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Cancer Immunotherapy Was the Spotlight of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Medicine

James P Allison and Tasuku Honjo co-jointly received the 2018 Nobel Prize in Medicine "for their discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation."
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Sir Atiyah Claims He Solved a 160-Year-Old Math Problem. Did He Really?

Bernhard Riemann formulated his hypothesis about prime numbers in 1859. 160 years later, mathematician Sir Michael Atiyah claims he solved the million-dollar-worth problem.
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The Complete List: The Nobel Prize 2018 Laureates
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- October 4, 2018
Sir Atiyah Claims He Solved a 160-Year-Old Math Problem. Did He Really?
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- September 27, 2018
Contagious Cancers: Lessons From the Tasmanian Devil
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- August 17, 2018
Real-Time Projections of Ebola Outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo
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- June 5, 2018

Language

Evolutionary Biology Can Help Us Understand How Language Works
- April 24, 2018
By Michael Dunn

English Language Day
- April 23, 2018
By Rita dos Santos Silva

The Swiftness of Glaciers: Language in a Time of Climate Change
- April 16, 2018
By Rob Nixon

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Open Access

- February 16, 2018
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- May 1, 2017
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