Resource Supply Chains Under Threat From Climate Change
The human race relies heavily on what the earth has to offer: minerals from underground, food from land and sea. We know how important these…
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Global Adaptation Governance: Why It’s Weak In Precision And Obligation
In Paris in December 2015, states established a new ‘global goal on adaptation’ at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). This goal…
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From Magic Bullet To Magic Pump Gun: Multi-targeting Drugs For Neurodegenerative Diseases
Neurodegenerative diseases are characterized by complex and multifactorial mechanisms, which are not completely understood. In particular, the molecular causes of many neurodegenerative diseases have not…
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Using Remote Sensing To Measure Crop Growth And Management
In most East and Southeast Asia countries, mosaic crop production systems usually consist of relatively small land holdings ( < 2 ha), which are managed…
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Comparison Of Dietary Fibre Composition Of Old & Modern Durum Wheat Genotypes
As the dominant staple crop in temperate regions of the world, wheat provides between 20% to 50% of the total intake of calories in our…
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Symmetrical Resonators Leads To Extraordinary Acoustic Transmission
If we imagine a plate, which is perfectly reflective of sound and drill holes through 5% of its surface then we would expect 5% of…
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Hybrid Materials As Potential NIR Absorbers For Organic Electronics
Modern society is largely a plastic-based culture in which organic (carbon-based) plastics have become more ubiquitous than other common materials such as metals, glass, or…
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When Glaciers Turn Bad: How Earth Narrowly Escaped CO2 Condensation & Permanent Glaciation
We know from the geologic record that the Earth had to face episodes of global glaciation hundreds of millions of years ago. It is widely…
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Characterizing The Preferred Mass Range For Primordial Black Holes & Dark Matter
The 2017 Nobel prize in physics has been awarded to Kip Thorne, Rainer Weiss, and Barry Barish, “for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and…
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Evidence For Glaciation Found In Alba Mons Region Of Mars
Climatic conditions and accompanying glacial/periglacial processes have been suggested to vary on Mars during the Late Amazonian epoch (~1.0 Ga to present). While evidence for…
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The Influence Of Climate-induced Salinization On Temporary Pools In A Large Dune Field
Temporary pools are one of the most abundant types of aquatic habitats worldwide; however, they are also one of the most threatened and least studied….
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