Colombia’s 10th Antarctic Expedition is making its way to the far reaches of the continent, exploring remote and almost untouched places. Colombia’s 10th Antarctic Expedition is making its way to the far reaches of the continent, exploring remote and almost untouched places inhabited by penguins, whales and the occasional seal. The Colombian Navy’s ARC Simon … Read more
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain We’ve known for a decade that political affiliation increasingly affects Americans’ everyday lives, including where they live, whom they befriend, and whom they welcome as in-laws. A recent Cato Institute survey revealed that nearly a third of Americans worry that voicing their political views could even harm their employment. This intensifying … Read more
Interaction of commitment to learning and CEO sex of family versus nonfamily SMEs on EO. Credit: Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal (2023). DOI: 10.1002/sej.1482 Family businesses account for more than 70 percent of global GDP, and survey data shows that they are much friendlier to female leadership: up to 55 percent have at least one woman on … Read more
by Zhao Weiwei, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences Schematic illustration showing the preparation process of Cuâ… SAEs. Credit: Liu Hongji A research group led by Prof. Wang Hui and Prof. Zhang Xin from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences introduced a new strategy to prepare … Read more
Sometimes sparks of innovation require taking the path less well trodden. Credit: Thomas Gorochowski Scientists working on biological design should focus on the idiosyncrasies of biological systems over optimization, according to new research. In a study, published in Science Advances, researchers from the Universities of Bristol and Ghent have shown how exploring the unknown may … Read more
The researchers developed a model that projects the time taken for trees native to the Atlantic Rainforest to reach the ideal size to be harvested for the timber industry. Credit: Pedro Brancalion/LASTROP-USPM Interest in forest restoration has increased in recent years, both on the part of companies and financial markets and in academia and government. … Read more
Credit: OANEvents The sub-zero temperatures have a detrimental effect on crops that were prevented from being harvested due to the extreme precipitation in recent months. Potatoes still in the fields in January are to be considered lost. Wijnand Sukkel of Wageningen University & Research says, “Farmers deal with increasingly extreme weather. WUR seeks solutions in … Read more
Overview of theoretical argument and case study findings. Credit: Global Strategy Journal (2023). DOI: 10.1002/gsj.1497 Research published in the Global Strategy Journal identifies globally mobile workers with highly specialized skills as a strategic hiring strategy, due to the workers’ legitimacy and mobility after being laid off by a failure of their former employer. The study … Read more
Rhizopus spores, from the genus of fungi used in the production of soy ferments. Source: Wikimedia commons In an era of grocery stores and home refrigerators, it is easy to lose sight of the fact that, for most of history, people have been bound by the seasonality of food. This reality has long presented humanity … Read more
Credit: CC0 Public Domain A team of scientists led by a Tulane University oceanographer has found that deposits deep under the ocean floor reveal a way to measure the ocean oxygen level and its connections with carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere during the last ice age, which ended more than 11,000 years ago. The … Read more
