The imagery of climate change matters. How we perceive the world affects how we perceive climate change, and how it will affect us—or whether it will affect us at all.
Environment
Mar 6, 2025
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Just 34.6% of children in the UK read for pleasure, according to a 2024 survey by the National Literacy Trust. This is the lowest number since the annual survey began in 2005—down from 43.4% in the previous year.
Social Sciences
Mar 6, 2025
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Biofilms, ubiquitous bacterial communities embedded in a slimy matrix, are the oldest form of multicellularity on Earth; they are extremely resistant to antibiotics and stick tenaciously to most surfaces, including living ...
Ecology
Mar 6, 2025
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Traditionally, radiation, chemotherapy, and surgery have been the most common ways to remove and destroy malignant cells. However, because these treatments can also damage healthy cells, they often have significant side effects. ...
Bio & Medicine
Mar 6, 2025
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Plastics, which are polymeric materials composed of long chains of small molecules called monomers, are widely used in everyday life and industry due to their lightweight, good strength and flexibility. However, with approximately ...
Polymers
Mar 6, 2025
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New research from the University of Exeter has found it will be economically unsustainable by 2080 for many areas across Latin America and the Caribbean to continue growing bananas for export, because of rising temperatures ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 6, 2025
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New research by Curtin University has achieved a breakthrough in eco-friendly display technology, creating highly efficient and stable blue quantum dot LEDs (QLEDs) that could power the next generation of televisions, smartphones, ...
Nanophysics
Mar 6, 2025
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At first glance, landscapes like the Great Plains and the Rockies may seem unchanging, but over geological time scales, they're dynamic systems. Plate tectonics raise mountains, while erosion—driven by glaciers, rain and ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 6, 2025
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Ghana has a high youth unemployment rate of up to 13.9%. For those young Ghanaians who do have jobs, more than 50% are underemployed—working in jobs that are low paid or that don't allow them to use all their skills or ...
Ecology
Mar 6, 2025
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Pretty much everyone will sometimes struggle with anger at work. People fear the wrath of abusive supervisors, suppress anger to maintain a façade of professionalism, or vent anger toward co-workers who are, fairly or not, ...
Social Sciences
Mar 6, 2025
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