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Black carbon and other pollution seeds clouds. We’re just starting to understand the climate implications
The leading cause of climate change is rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
Nov 30, 2020
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The mission to decipher a mysterious aerosol layer above Himalayan monsoon clouds
Professor Borrmann is an atmospheric physicist the Johannes Gutenberg University and the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz, Germany.
Nov 19, 2020
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Mushroom cultivation produces three times its weight in waste. It’s now being turned into burgers and fertiliser
Managing this waste is a challenge. Although it is rich in organic matter, and therefore useful as compost, used mushroom substrate – the soil-like material – contains a lot of water, which makes it heavy and unprofitable to transport.
Nov 18, 2020
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Bats have different song cultures and chatter about food, sleep, sex and other bats
‘Local people probably thought we were crazy or lost,’ she said. ‘Or both.’
Nov 17, 2020
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Q&A: Talking about the ‘race’ for a coronavirus vaccine could reduce public confidence
Efforts to achieve herd immunity against Covid-19 with a vaccine could be hampered by low levels of confidence in immunisation programs in some European…
Nov 16, 2020
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Cloud shapes and formations impact global warming – but we still don’t understand them
Clouds are one of the biggest question marks in global climate models, and a wild card in predicting what will happen to the climate as temperatures rise.
Nov 9, 2020
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Transparent electronic books and human-looking robots: the new field of ‘organic electronics’
Electronics made from carbon rather than silicon could lead to a new generation of medical devices, sensors and perhaps even robots, according to Professor…
Oct 5, 2020
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Forest darkness helps stave off effects of nitrogen pollution – but this is set to change
Europe’s forests are sitting on a pollution timebomb which could rewrite their ecology when it explodes, say researchers.
Oct 1, 2020
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We ultimately should be able to make a pan-coronavirus vaccine, says theoretical epidemiologist
Prof. Gupta was speaking on a digital panel at the European Research and Innovation Days on 22 September along with other scientists to discuss how they’re steering their frontier research areas to address challenges brought on by the pandemic.
Sep 24, 2020
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Q&A: ‘Cancer vaccines will not replace surgery or chemo but could give long-lasting immunity’
Arming our immune system to fight cancer has been a long-standing dream for scientists and doctors.
Sep 24, 2020
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Proposals for Europe’s bold 10-year R&I missions officially handed to Commissioner Gabriel
The five so-called missions, which have been a year in the drafting and drawn up after consultation with European citizens, are designed to provide a bold…
Sep 22, 2020
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Pandemic freight emissions reached 2030 target in just months. How do we make the changes stick?
Daily carbon emissions from EU freight transport dropped by 37% at the height of the pandemic, says Professor Alan McKinnon, a freight logistics expert at Kühne Logistics University in Hamburg, Germany.
Sep 15, 2020
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‘Encoding the same biases’: Artificial intelligence’s limitations in coronavirus response
As the coronavirus pandemic endures, the socio-economic implications of race and gender in contracting Covid-19 and dying from it have been laid bare.
Sep 8, 2020
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New wave of medical ‘deep tech’ can help coronavirus response – but there’s resistance
The development of new medical technologies based on cutting-edge discoveries has accelerated during the coronavirus pandemic and is helping us respond to the health crisis.
Sep 3, 2020