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Social Sciences Jun 13, 2024

How words matter when facing the problem of children in care

New research from the Institute of Population Health at the University of Liverpool calls for unflinching conversations about what poverty and financial stress can do to families, and the impact on children's risk of entering ...

Agriculture Jun 13, 2024

Maximizing wheat productivity with supplemental irrigation

A new ICARDA study shows how applying key agri-innovations can strengthen dryland rainfed production systems in the face of accelerating climate change.

Plants & Animals Jun 13, 2024

Scientists discover non-transcriptional mechanism of karrikin signaling transduction

Researchers led by Dr. Wang Lei and Wang Bing from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have shown that the non-transcriptional activity of the transcriptional repressor proteins ...

Biochemistry Jun 13, 2024

Vitamin B6: New compound could delay degradation

A low vitamin B6 level has negative effects on brain performance. A research team from Würzburg University Medicine has now found a way to delay the degradation of the vitamin.

Social Sciences Jun 13, 2024

Study: UK public backs adoption, surrogacy more if parents are infertile

New research has found that the public is more accepting of adoption and surrogacy if one or both parents are infertile, even when applied to methods of adoption and surrogacy which are currently illegal in the UK.

Earth Sciences Jun 13, 2024

Exploring effects of thawing permafrost on topography and periglacial environment along China-Russia crude oil pipeline

The buried China-Russia Crude Oil Pipeline (CRCOP), with its oil temperature above 0°C, interacts with the permafrost environment in a complex way, causing permafrost degradation, frost geohazards, and various environmental ...

Earth Sciences Jun 13, 2024

Study reveals cirrus cloud traits over the South China Sea

The radiative climate and environmental effects of cirrus clouds is an international cutting-edge field of scientific research in the atmospheric sciences. Understanding how the characteristics of cirrus clouds over the ocean ...

Economics & Business Jun 13, 2024

New intellectual property treaty does little to protect Māori traditional knowledge, say researchers

The problem of "biopiracy"—the misappropriation and patenting for profit of Indigenous knowledge—has been on the rise for some time. So a global treaty aimed at protecting traditional knowledge and genetic resources should ...

Economics & Business Jun 13, 2024

Synthetic data holds the key to determining best statewide transit investments

Synthetically generated population data can reveal the equity impacts of distributing transportation resources and funding across diverse regions, according to new research from NYU's Tandon School of Engineering that uses ...

Plants & Animals Jun 13, 2024

Malawi farming experiment shows how simple changes can boost maize yields and improve soil

Malawi's increasingly unpredictable rainfall and higher than usual temperatures are causing problems for smallholder farmers. Soil erosion has increased, causing soil fertility and water availability to decline. Crops often ...

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