Smoking Pot Does Not Make You Stupid (Birdbrained)
Common beliefs say smoking pot may lower your IQ. A study in twins now contradicts this: Intelligence is suffering from something completely different. Childhood and…
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Informal Urban Firewood Markets Persist Despite Large-Scale Socioeconomic Development
Almost three-quarters of Africa’s urban population uses firewood as their primary source of domestic energy, and the International Energy Agency projected that the absolute numbers…
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Using Three Approaches To Determine Whether Renewable Energy Sources Have Replaced Fossil Fuel
The exploitation of wind and solar sources has transformed the electricity production systems, allowing for a diversified, endogenous, and green mix of electricity sources. It…
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Nitric Oxide And Hydrogen Sulfide Cross-Talk For Blood Vessel Wellness
The importance of the gaseous transmitter nitric oxide (NO) was definitely recognized by the 1998 Nobel Prize for Medicine/Physiology. Depending on its concentration, NO controls…
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Household Energy Consumption And Related Emissions From Biomass And Non-renewable Energy Sources: A Case Study From Bangladesh
In developing countries, access to clean and equal energy is often hindered due to lack of understanding of households’ energy consumption pattern and socioeconomic factors….
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Climate Change Mitigation Policies Could Facilitate Universal Electricity Access In Sub-Saharan Africa
Energy is fundamental to development. SDG7 acknowledges that ensuring access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all is one of the main goals…
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Is Electricity A Means Or An End? Lessons From Rural India
Electricity is a critical input to a country’s economic development. A plethora of studies have successfully demonstrated a direct relationship between electricity consumption and GDP…
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The Rhythm Of The Heart: Measuring Heart Rate Recovery In Twins
Heritage or environment: Why does the heart recover faster after exercise in some people but not in others? Scientists found an answer when pushing twins…
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Industrial Green Spatial Pattern Evolution Of The Yangtze River Economic Belt In China
The Yangtze River Economic Belt is one of the three official regional strategies in China. It covers 11 provinces and can be classified into three…
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Study Of Survey And Evaluation Methods For Appropriate Tillage Of Sandy Land In Hangjin Banner, Inner-Mongolia, China
As a special resource, sand is widely distributed in China, especially in arid and semi-arid regions. Because of the effects of a region’s geographic environment,…
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The 100 Billion Dollar-Euro Question: Is There A Placebo Effect In Medicine Outside Drug Trials?
A common cold lasts for 7 days without medicines and for one week with medicines, but a day less with an empathic doctor Everybody knows…
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