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Figuring out why we get sick
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What does an ancient Egyptian mummy or a 17th century skeleton found in Zurich tell us about illnesses that affect us today? Quite a lot actually, if you are looking from an evolutionary medicine perspective.
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On Tuesday, the Municipal Council of La Chaux-de-Fonds in the Jura region confirmed to swissinfo.ch that the lawsuit had been filed, stating that city officials had not yet been formally notified of the case. Once they are notified, the city’s communications office indicated that officials would decide how to proceed, “weighing all the options, as…
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On a late February morning, Yves Bouvier arrived at the Monaco home of one of his best clients. He expected Dmitry Rybolovlev, the Russian billionaire owner of AS Monaco football club, to pay him tens of millions of dollars for a recently acquired Mark Rothko painting, “No 6 (Violet, Vert et Rouge)”. Mr Bouvier, who…
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Museums the world over still display archaeological treasures that sometimes are not legally theirs. While governments wrangle over their rightful ownership, looters continue to plunder sites to feed a prospering black-market. Now, an investigative reporter for the Los Angeles Times is trying to set up “WikiLoot”, a way of crowd-sourcing information on looted antiquities via…
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