Farming reboot could lay seeds for prosperity in poor and food insecure regions
An irrigation re-think in sub-Saharan Africa is improving food security, reducing water waste and lifting people out of poverty.
A novel solution to a combinatorial optimization problem in bicycle sharing systems
Bicycle sharing systems have become an attractive option to alleviate traffic in congested cities. However, rebalancing the number of bikes at each port as...
A lab in the sky: Physics experiment in Earth’s atmosphere could help improve GPS...
The Earth's atmosphere has been used as a 'laboratory' to carry out a physics experiment which could help to improve the performance of GPS.
Polar bear diet may indicate prey distribution changes due to climate shifts
How are warming temperatures and a loss of sea ice affecting polar bears and their marine mammal prey in the Arctic? A York University-led...
Optimal concentrations of enzymes and their substrates
Biological cells invest much of their resources into the production of enzymes, which catalyze the conversion of substrates into products. An international team of...
Genetic risk of mental health conditions may influence where people choose to live, study...
Research on around 386,000 UK adults has found that a high genetic risk for schizophrenia and other mental health conditions, including bipolar disorder, anorexia...
Fossil dental exams reveal how tusks first evolved and why they are unique only...
Researchers trace the first tusks back to ancient mammal relatives that lived before the dinosaurs and shed light on the evolution of mammalian tusks...
The ripple factor: Economic losses from weather extremes can amplify each other across the...
Weather extremes can cause economic ripples along our supply chains. If they occur at roughly the same time the ripples start interacting and can...
Advancing agriculture threatens the livelihoods of forest-dependent people
Forest-dependent people living across the Gran Chaco have been put on the map for the first time. As agribusiness expands into the dry forest...
The nutritional value of giant kelp decreases as sea temperatures increase
As a foundational species, giant kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera) is vital to the ecosystem of the temperate, shallow, nearshore waters where it grows. When the...
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