Researcher is optimistic about meeting 'Grand Challenge' of global prosperity
With ecological viability threatened, world resources draining, population burgeoning and despair running rampant, the end is nigh.
With ecological viability threatened, world resources draining, population burgeoning and despair running rampant, the end is nigh.
Ecology
Oct 24, 2013
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As a result of the variable nature of gene expression, genetically identical cells inhabiting the same environment can vary significantly in their numbers of key enzymes, which in turn results in strikingly different cellular ...
Biochemistry
Jul 29, 2013
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America's economy will hum along its path of moderate growth, adding 4.7 million jobs through the end of next year, say University of Michigan economists.
Economics & Business
Jun 19, 2013
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(Phys.org) —A team made up of American anthropologists and zoologists along with a demographer from Bangladesh has been comparing various models that have been developed over the years to explain population growth, and ...
(Phys.org) —Partha Dasgupta an economist with the University of Cambridge and Paul Ehrlich, a conservation biologist at Stanford University have published a paper in the journal Science in which they suggest that peer pressure ...
(Phys.org) —Like the rings of a tree trunk, Strontium-to-calcium ratios (Sr/Ca) in coral skeletons have been widely used to determine past ocean temperatures from yearly banded corals. However, scientists have now found ...
Environment
Mar 26, 2013
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Projections suggesting the world human population will stop growing around 10 billion people at the end of this century are improbable, according to new research by SFI Postdoctoral Fellow Marcus Hamilton and collaborators.
Social Sciences
Mar 20, 2013
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Recent forecasts for the California economy may be more optimistic than warranted, according to a new report by UC Irvine economists.
Economics & Business
Feb 25, 2013
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Population growth in Virginia outpaced the nation, with highly varied growth across localities, according to the most recent official annual population estimates for the state developed by demographers from the University ...
Social Sciences
Jan 25, 2013
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(Phys.org)—Confidence plunged in December as consumers confronted the rising likelihood that political gridlock would push the country over the fiscal cliff.
Economics & Business
Dec 24, 2012
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