A dash of ruthenium atoms on a mesh of copper nanowires could be one step toward a revolution in the global ammonia industry that also helps the environment.
Nanomaterials
May 2, 2022
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On a sweltering July day in 1984, Jane Menken stepped off a plane in the teeming capital city of Dhaka, Bangladesh, boarded a van for a dusty, four-hour journey to the remote villages to the south and embarked on a decades-long ...
Social Sciences
Feb 16, 2022
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A pair of researchers at the University of California, Davis has found that the neonicotinoid pesticide imidacloprid can reduce fertility rates in the blue orchard bee. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National ...
New research on China suggests that declining birth rates and an aging population might not hinder future prosperity when associated with better education of the young.
Social Sciences
Sep 27, 2021
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It's time to stop blaming overpopulation for our environmental woes and start looking at the factors that really matter—resource consumption and toxic exposure as population growth and fertility rates show downward trends.
Environment
Jun 10, 2021
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8
When it comes to sexual attraction, women rate age, education, intelligence, income, trust, and emotion connection higher than men who put a greater priority on attractiveness and physical build says new research from QUT.
Social Sciences
May 19, 2021
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'Superhighways' used by a population of up to 6.5 million Indigenous Australians to navigate the continent tens of thousands of years ago have been revealed by new research using sophisticated modelling of past people and ...
Archaeology
Apr 29, 2021
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Socially just policies aimed at limiting the Earth's human population hold tremendous potential for advancing equity while simultaneously helping to mitigate the effects of climate change, Oregon State University researchers ...
Environment
Apr 28, 2021
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Life for the people of Puerto Rico hasn't been the same since Hurricane Maria devastated the island in September 2017.
Environment
Jul 16, 2020
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9
Earth will be home to 8.8 billion souls in 2100, two billion fewer than current UN projections, according to a major study published Wednesday that foresees new global power alignments shaped by declining fertility rates ...
Other
Jul 15, 2020
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