Overdue Standards Better Protect People from Human Pesticide Tests
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today strengthened federal standards to make it harder for the chemical industry to use people as test subjects in pesticide research that is sent to EPA to help set health protecti...
Inclusive education for children with disabilities can transform lives, says UNICEF
Progressive policies in inclusive education have made positive changes in the lives of children with disabilities in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia, according to UNICEF today.
Quantum Dots Assemble Themselves: Surprising breakthrough could bolster quantum photonics, solar cell efficiency
Quantum dots are tiny crystals of semiconductor a few billionths of a meter in diameter. At that size they exhibit beneficial behaviors of quantum physics such as forming electron-hole pairs and harvesting excess energy....
