The negative effects of higher temperatures, along with higher incidences of extreme events such as droughts and flooding, on staple crops are widely accepted but globing warming is bringing with
Archive for August 2018
It’s been a strange summer for wheat. If there is one cereal that has got people talking recently, it is the illustrious descendent of triticale: alternately victim of drought, then
A new model based on machine learning can predict the location and timing of earthquake aftershocks with more precision than the standard method, known as the Coulomb failure criterion. The
New Hungarian legislation on ‘migration propaganda’ forces university to suspend Horizon 2020 research funding
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In the latest bout of anti-immigration policies, the Hungarian government has brought into effect a new levy on anything deemed ‘migration propaganda.’ For fear that this may include a Horizon 2020
The recent presentation of the French government’s anti-pollution plan was an opportunity for many in the media to remind us of a significant figure: air pollution from fine particles is
While the whole of the rest of Europe has been on a summer break, the Court of Justice of the European Union has not been idle. In fact, in a
Rising ocean temperatures may have detrimental effects on coral reefs at extremely low depths
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Warmer ocean temperatures are known to be a major cause of coral bleaching at the ocean surface but new research, led by scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the
A new study published on 27 August in Nature Climate Change has shown that elevated carbon dioxide (CO2) levels in the atmosphere are affecting the nutrient content of staple crops,
How are human and animal brains different? A newly discovered cell type may offer some clues
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A new study published in Nature Neuroscience on 27 August, led by Prof Ed Lein and his team from the University of Szeged in Szeged, Hungary along with colleagues from
A group of experts from Johns Hopkins University, Ruth Faden, Ruth Karron, and Carleigh Krubiner, have put together an opinion piece, published on August 27 in STAT, outlining why they believe