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Air quality improvements can strengthen China’s food security
Vos, T. et al. Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990-2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019. Lancet 396, 1204–1222 (2020). Article Google Scholar Zhang, Q. et al. Drivers of improved PM2.5 air quality in China from 2013 to 2017. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci.…
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rworkflows: automating reproducible practices for the R community
rworkflows adoption To date, rworkflows has been successfully implemented in over 149 R repositories (including forks), and downloaded over 3700 times at an average rate of >300 downloads/month. This includes packages both internal and external to our own research group, as well as the rworkflows R package itself. To illustrate this, we created a graph illustrating…
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The impact of petrol and diesel oil taxes in EU member states on CO2 emissions from passenger cars
Braathen, A., Borkey, P., Ravazzi, A., & Steenblik, R. Environmental Fiscal Reform. Progress, Prospects and Pitfalls. [WWW Document]. OECD (2017). https://www.oecd.org/tax/tax-policy/environmental-fiscal-reform-progress-prospects-and-pitfalls.htm. Accessed 3. 7. 22. Krause, J. et al. EU road vehicle energy consumption and CO2 emissions by 2050—Expert-based scenarios. Energy Policy 138, 111224. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2019.111224 (2020). Article Google Scholar Marques, A. C., Fuinhas, J. A.…
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How badly does climate change affect coral? I dive to find out
The corals that my colleagues and I study in Mo‘orea, French Polynesia, are sea polyps that grow in symbiosis with unicellular algae called zooxanthellae. Most of these corals’ nutrients come from the sugars produced by algal photosynthesis. Usually, human-built coral nurseries are located at the bottom of the sea. However, here at the Centre for…
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How sharing your science in an opinion piece can boost your career
Synthetic biologist Devang Mehta finds that writing perspectives helps his career.Credit: Kaat Hebbelinck Devang Mehta wrote his first opinion piece in 2017 for online magazine Slate when he was a graduate student at ETH Zurich, Switzerland (see go.nature.com/3rf7lwt). It had the provocative title, ‘Nobel Prizes Should Reward Science, Not Scientists’. Since then, he has written…
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Ethics compliance should not delay biomedical advances
I contend that the United States is becoming too risk-averse in overseeing biomedical research. The red tape involved threatens to undermine our biomedical security by holding back research progress (see, for instance, Nature https://doi.org/k86t; 2023). Competing Interests The author declares no competing interests. Continue Reading News Source: www.nature.com
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Open source and reproducible and inexpensive infrastructure for data challenges and education
Clinical problem Pediatric traumatic brain injury (TBI) is the cause of approximately 35,000 hospitalizations and 2,200 deaths per year in the United States4. Non-mortality sequelae of severe TBI affect both the child and the child’s family due to cognitive impairment, decreased physical and mental health, and lower quality of life5,6,7. Interventions to improve outcomes for…
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If at first you don’t succeed
If at first you don’t succeed Continue Reading News Source: www.nature.com
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The research aiming to keep people healthier for longer
The molecular mechanisms that make exercise beneficial are increasingly understood.Credit: Don Emmert/AFP/Getty How We Age: The Science of Longevity Coleen T. Murphy Princeton Univ. Press (2023) Despite what the young might like to think, ageing is inevitable as adulthood progresses. In How We Age, geneticist Coleen Murphy provides no silver bullets for remaining youthful. Rather,…
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Eliminate undeclared as well as declared chemical weapons
The destruction of all declared stockpiles of chemical weapons is a “landmark moment” for global security (P. J. Hotchkiss Nature 623, 459; 2023). But undeclared stockpiles of chemical weapons in the hands of aggressive regimes such as those in Syria, Russia and North Korea continue to pose a threat. Competing Interests The author declares no…