Deforestation is the second largest source of CO2 emissions after consumption of fossil fuels. So-called PES programmes, where landowners are paid to replant or protect forests, have been promoted as a way to reduce deforestation. ...
Environment
May 29, 2013
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A new method of sourcing the origins of artefacts in high definition is set to improve our understanding of the past.
Archaeology
May 22, 2013
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Just as humans can follow complex social situations in deciding who to befriend or to abandon, it turns out that animals use the same level of sophistication in judging social configurations, according to a new study that ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 22, 2013
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Black passengers face clear discrimination on Brisbane buses, a study from The University of Queensland School of Economics has shown.
Social Sciences
Mar 20, 2013
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A team of Spanish and Argentinean researchers have verified that the distribution of the inhabitants in each Spanish province evolves in accordance with the maximum entropy principle in the field of physics. Therefore, this ...
Mathematics
Mar 11, 2013
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An international team of researchers has shown that old wives' tales that snails can tell us about the weather should not be dismissed too hastily.
Plants & Animals
Jan 30, 2013
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The search for the origin of modern human behaviour and technological advancement among our ancestors in southern Africa some 70 000 years ago, has taken a step closer to firmly establishing Africa, and especially South Africa, ...
Archaeology
Dec 5, 2012
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University of Alberta researchers discovered that elk are more frequently and more easily disturbed by human behaviour such as ATV drivers than by their natural predators like bears and wolves.
Ecology
Nov 28, 2012
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(Phys.org)—University research has demonstrated how computer mediation could help combat bullying in schools.
Social Sciences
Nov 21, 2012
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Using cutting-edge virtual reality technology, researchers have 'beamed' a person into a rat facility allowing the rat and human to interact with each other on the same scale.
Engineering
Oct 31, 2012
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