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Environment Mar 28, 2024

Progress and challenges on the road to net zero: Q&A

In early March, after years of deliberations, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced a new reporting requirement for U.S.-based public companies. Beginning in 2025, companies that meet a certain threshold of market ...

Economics & Business Mar 25, 2024

Industrialization is still vital to economic development but some countries are struggling to reap its benefits

Alexander Hamilton, one of the founding fathers of the US, wrote a wealth of reports that served as building blocks for the country's economic system. In 1791, during his time as secretary of the Treasury, Hamilton published ...

Plants & Animals Mar 25, 2024

What your fruit bowl reveals about climate breakdown

Spring arrived in style on March 26 2021 in Kyoto, Japan, as cherry trees reached the peak of their bloom. This marked the earliest recorded date when most flowers have opened in a series of annual records dating back to ...

Agriculture Mar 25, 2024

Better phosphorus use can ensure its stocks last more than 500 years and boost global food production, study shows

More efficient use of phosphorus could see limited stocks of the important fertilizer last more than 500 years and boost global food production to feed growing populations.

Earth Sciences Mar 24, 2024

Climate change is shifting the zones where plants grow. Here's what that could mean for your garden

With the arrival of spring in North America, many people are gravitating to the gardening and landscaping section of home improvement stores, where displays are overstocked with eye-catching seed packs and benches are filled ...

Social Sciences Mar 21, 2024

Conspiracy theorists seem to favor an intuitive thinking style—here's why that's important

I have been researching the psychology of conspiracy beliefs for seven years now and people often ask me why people believe in them. This is not a simple question.

Archaeology Mar 21, 2024

Plant material on obsidian blades on Rapa Nui suggests settlers there visited South America and returned

A team of archaeologists affiliated with several institutions in Chile reports evidence that early settlers on the island of Rapa Nui sailed to South America, interacted with people living there and then returned. In their ...

Social Sciences Mar 20, 2024

Bilingual children cannot 'turn off' their language knowledge, says researcher

Worldwide, there are more children who grow up learning multiple languages than children learning only one. And yet monolingualism is often taken as a starting point, for example in school. Research by linguist Elly Koutamanis ...

Molecular & Computational biology Mar 15, 2024

Cracking the pear genome: How students helped unlock a new tool for the pear industry

Pears are big business in the Pacific Northwest US. But did you know that traditional pear breeding has remained largely unchanged for centuries?

Environment Mar 14, 2024

Facts about hail, the icy precipitation often encountered in spring and summer

Intense storms swept through Kansas and Missouri on Wednesday and brought whipping winds, possible tornadoes, and what some described as "gorilla hail."

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