Climate adaptation projects like Zambia’s seed banks need devolved finance. Credit: Mzingo Ngoma Botha Beaming with smiles, Zambian farmer Mary Dimba points to a newly harvested crop of maize on her silo. The mother-of-four from Mpande village in Zambia’s Lusaka Province tells how the beginning of the last cropping season was less stressful than previous … Read more
The pregnant porbeagle shark, subject of the study, after her release after tagging. Credit: Jon Dodd Who killed the pregnant porbeagle? In a marine science version of the game Cluedo, researchers from the US have now accused a larger shark, with its deciduous triangular teeth, in the open sea southwest of Bermuda. This scientific whodunnit … Read more
Computer simulations and advanced AI were used to study and predict how peptides aggregate, giving new insights into their behavior and structure. Credit: JACS Au/XJTLU Scientists from China have investigated how short peptide chains aggregate together in order to deepen our understanding of the process which is crucial for drug stability and material development. Their … Read more
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Industry experts and university researchers have joined together to ask the government to address the climate impact of organic, carbon-based chemicals. While demand for fossil fuels as energy is expected to fall in the coming decades, the petrochemicals sector is set to grow significantly according to experts and is set out … Read more
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Australian transport emissions are still growing. As a result, transport is expected to be our biggest-emitting sector by 2030. So, cutting transport emissions is crucial to Australia’s net-zero strategy. Studies show electrifying passenger vehicles and trucks will greatly reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But the switch to electric vehicles is slow. It … Read more
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The COVID-19 pandemic not only gave us a global health crisis but also an infodemic, a term coined by the World Health Organization (WHO) to describe the overwhelming flood of information—both accurate and misleading—that inundated media channels. This information complicated the public understanding and response to the pandemic as people struggled … Read more
Credit: Pavel Danilyuk from Pexels Even moderate levels of school absence, not just extreme absences, can have a negative impact on exam results and career prospects, but they are frequently overlooked, according to a University of Strathclyde report. In England, pupils with consistently moderate absences across schooling were found to account for more than a … Read more
Location of the sampled conventional (white circles), young organic (1–11 years since transition, gray circles) and old organic farms (20–35 years since transition, black circles) in southern Sweden. Credit: Journal of Applied Ecology (2024). DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.14650 It takes a long time, up to several decades, before the benefits of organic farming take full effect on land that … Read more
Sustainable and biodegradable: packaging made from mycelium. Credit: Fraunhofer IAP/Jadwiga Galties Fungi have more to offer than meets the eye. Their thread-like cells, which grow extensively and out of sight underground like a network of roots, offer huge potential for producing sustainable, biodegradable materials. Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research IAP in … Read more
(A) Origin of the different SLC and SP founders selected for the ToMAGIC population development represented with the different colour codes. (B) The funnel breeding design to develop the 354 ToMAGIC lines. The eight founders with a different colour to represent their genomic background are represented at a scale based on the real fruit size. … Read more
