In 1988, an agreement was reached with China’s national science and technology agency, which had previously supported the piracy of Nature in the country, to publish an English-language edition in China. The same year saw a deal hatched with Yuri Kanin, then chief science commentator for the...
If you have a refrigerator with an ice machine built into it, you’ve probably gotten pretty used to the luxury of strolling over to that fridge and filling up a glass with fresh ice. It’s a luxury that has only relatively recently been possible, and the history of that seemingly common...
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The program was, in fact, the first disease control program undertaken by an agency of the World Health Organization. In 1974 the WHO Expert Committee on Tuberculosis issued its Ninth Report, a document that provided policy guidelines for tuberculosis control for the next 2 decades.76 It ...
The Contours of Vegetation Change and Human Agency in Eastern Africa's Great Lakes Region: ca. 2000 BC to ca. AD 1000 Elsewhere I have set forth a basic outline for charting histories of vegetation change through the use of paleoenvironmental data (Schoenbrun 1991). This essay builds on the...
UL certifies its first personal flotation device (life vest) for buoyancy and flammability. In 1972, the U.S. Coast Guard recognizes UL as the official testing agency for personal flotation devices. Loading UL Addresses Television Fires 1975 ...
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Thirty-seven of these gold medals come from Alpine skiing alone. In total, the country has earned 232 medals across the 23 previous Winter Olympic Games. Next: No. 4: Canada 8/14 Credit No. 4: Canada Unsurprisingly, ice hockey accounts for the largest slice of the...