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Limitations to sustainable renewable jet fuels production attributed to cost than energy-water-food resource availability
Global biojet fuel sustainability index The COVID-19 pandemic has irrevocably changed the global energy market, with the largest ever price swings between trough (March 2020) and peak (March 2022) in crude oil price within a two-year period being recorded at around -USD 37 and USD 130 per barrel, respectively10. While the former is due to…
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Counteracting deliberate ignorance of academic bullying and harassment
Institutionalize regular organizational screenings Although aggregate data on academic bullying and harassment are available, many institutions remain unaware—wittingly or unwittingly—of the prevalence, causes, and consequences of bullying and harassment within their own ranks. After being shaken by two high-profile bullying allegations in 201813, Germany’s Max Planck Society faced uncertainty about the scale of bullying and…
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Haplotype-resolved genome of heterozygous African cassava cultivar TMEB117 (Manihot esculenta)
Wang, P. et al. The genome evolution and domestication of tropical fruit mango. Genome Biol 21 (2020). Tang, C. et al. The rubber tree genome reveals new insights into rubber production and species adaptation. Nat Plants 2 (2016). Bredeson, J. V. et al. Sequencing wild and cultivated cassava and related species reveals extensive interspecific hybridization…
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Five social science intervention areas for ocean sustainability initiatives
Ostrom, E. A general framework for analyzing sustainability of social-ecological systems. Science 325, 419–422 (2009). Article CAS Google Scholar Bennett, N. J. Marine social science for the peopled seas. Coastal Manag. 47, 244–252 (2019). Article Google Scholar Bavinck, M. & Verrips, J. Manifesto for the marine social sciences. Maritime Stud. 19, 121–123 (2020). Article Google…
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When is an aurora not an aurora?
The shimmering green, red and purple curtains of the northern and southern lights — the auroras — may be the best-known phenomena lighting up the nighttime sky, but the most mysterious are the mauve and white streaks called Steve and their frequent companion, a glowing green “picket fence.” First recognized in 2018 as distinct from…
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Immersive VR goggles for mice unlock new potential for brain science
Northwestern University researchers have developed new virtual reality (VR) goggles for mice. Besides just being cute, these miniature goggles provide more immersive experiences for mice living in laboratory settings. By more faithfully simulating natural environments, the researchers can more accurately and precisely study the neural circuitry that underlies behavior. Compared to current state-of-the-art systems, which…
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Scholars say it’s time to declare a new epoch on the moon, the ‘lunar Anthropocene’
Human beings first disturbed moon dust on Sept. 13, 1959, when the USSR’s unmanned spacecraft Luna 2 alighted on the lunar surface. In the following decades, more than a hundred other spacecraft have touched the moon — both crewed and uncrewed, sometimes landing and sometimes crashing. The most famous of these were NASA’s Apollo Lunar…
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A toolkit for capturing a representative and equitable sample in health research
Improving inclusion of under-served groups in clinical research: guidance from the NIHR-INCLUDE project. National Institute for Health and Care Research www.nihr.ac.uk/documents/improving-inclusion-of-under-served-groups-in-clinical-research-guidance-from-include-project/25435 (2022). Boden-Albala, B. Confronting legacies of underrepresentation in clinical trials: the case for greater diversity in research. Neuron 110, 746–748 (2022). Article CAS PubMed Google Scholar Bodicoat, D. H. et al. Promoting inclusion in…
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Umwelt as the foundation of an ethics of smart environments
Definition of umwelt In the foreword to his seminal text A foray into the worlds of animals and humans, Jaköb von Uexküll (2010) states that he does not aim to introduce a new science. However, this is precisely what he did when his umwelt theory was first presented in 1909. In German, Um-Welt means the…
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Will the first global climate deal on food work?
“Reducing the consumption of animal products in high-consuming countries would deliver the biggest results in the short term,” says food systems researcher Helen Harwatt.Credit: Vladimir Popovich/Alamy Last week at the start of the COP28 climate conference in Dubai, 134 countries signed a declaration pledging to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from processes related to producing and…