Deepwater and ultra-deepwater oil drilling are expanding globally as technology improves, making it increasingly profitable to drill in water depths greater than 1500 m. On…
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From the Old World to the New, mythologies of origins typically portray the emergence of agriculture as a gift or blessing from benevolent gods, seemingly…
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Today we separate the two most common ways of managing pollination services in crops. One is the use of managed bees, such as honey bees…
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Imagine the following: Your doctor prescribes you a medicine and tells you frankly: it does not contain any active ingredients, it is a placebo, but…
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As the costs of wind and solar technologies plummet and global climate change consensus grows, wind and solar development pipelines have ballooned. Analyses of future…
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Under our current changing climate, plants and animals must respond to rising sea levels, altered precipitation patterns, and increasing air and water temperatures and concentrations…
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The vast majority of fuels and chemicals used by humans are made from fossil carbon. Bioproduction from microorganisms, such as bacteria or yeast, might provide…
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Technological innovations are often driven to the market thanks to the hedonistic lifestyle of the consumers. In such cases, the technology adoption or adaptation is…
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The extraction and refining of natural resources from the subsoil through mining and metallurgical activities has produced much of the wealth of today’s society. However,…
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How do brains evolve? If species differ in the size and structure of their brains, are there patterns to these differences? Can these patterns tell…
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The full fabrication of paper-based electrochemical devices by screen-printing has been recently demonstrated, making their mass production and commercialization more feasible. One decade ago, paper-based…
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