Nearly one-fifth of the world’s population lives in a stressed water basin where the next climate change-driven incident could threaten access to an essential resource for agriculture, industry and life itself, according to a paper by University of California, Irvine researchers and others, published today in Nature Sustainability.
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Sleep, Wake, Repeat: How Do Plants Work on Different Time Zones?
It’s widely understood that humans have a circadian clock.
Scientists Engineer Unique ‘Glowing’ Protein
Biophysicists from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology have joined forces with colleagues from France and Germany to create a new fluorescent protein.
Brush your teeth – Postpone Alzheimer´s
The researchers have determined that gum disease (gingivitis) plays a decisive role in whether a person developes Alzheimer´s or not.
Cracking Open the Black Box of Automated Machine Learning
Researchers from MIT and elsewhere have developed an interactive tool that, for the first time, lets users see and control how automated machine-learning systems work.
Grassland Areas Should Be Chosen Wisely
When farmland is converted from grain production to grasslands, the greatest environmental benefits are obtained by choosing land that is close to existing natural areas or has high nutritional loads to aquatic environments, a new study indicates.