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Filipino Fermented Fish Yields Antifungal Bacteria

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UP Diliman Physicists Map the World’s Shifting Cultures

UP Diliman Scientists created detailed cultural maps. These maps show how cultures change over time. The team is from the National Institute of Physics (NIP) measured cultural diversity using the standard deviational ellipse (SDE) area.