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...research organisations, with the aim of building local capacity. PMA2020 is a US$40 million project funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Data on family planning are usually available every five years through countries’ demographic and health surveys. “PMA2020 is making this data available every six months, which could change the game by enabling policymakers...

...research and knowledge exchange project educates on what food allergies are and how they can severely affect health and wellbeing, and restrict social freedoms such as eating out of the home...While food allergies were once thought to be more common in children, they are now more prevalent in adults. With 1 in 20 adults in the UK with a confirmed food allergy (Food...

...research methods, and is not a solely philosophical matter. The troublesome notion of ‘being in motion’ has been a theme in science for hundreds of years, and it surely reached a zenith with Einsteinian relativity. It is no exaggeration to say that Einstein put all prior scientific certainty into question. Perhaps understandably, for most of human existence people...

...research scanner (such as the FMRIB Centre scanner) has a field strength of 3 teslas (T), about 50,000 times greater than the Earth’s field. The magnetic field inside the scanner affects the magnetic nuclei of atoms. Normally atomic nuclei are randomly oriented but under the influence of a magnetic field the nuclei become aligned with the direction of the field. The...