Study shows major changes in ice and temperatures could cause abrupt effects farther away
About 14,000 years ago, the southwest United States was lush and green, home to saber-toothed cats and mammoths. Meanwhile, the Pacific Northwest was mostly grassland. (more…)
Researchers in Japan, Hong Kong and U.S. launch crowdsourced research effort using IBM’s World Community Grid
TOKYO, Japan; HONG KONG, China & HARTFORD, United States – 31 Jan 2017: Medical researchers and IBM (NYSE: IBM) are asking for the public’s help in finding prospective treatments for childhood cancers. (more…)
A new technique that allowed researchers to analyze genetic material from serum samples of HIV patients taken before AIDS was known provides a glimpse into the beginnings of the epidemic.
Researchers at the University of Arizona and the University of Cambridge in the U.K. have reconstructed the origins of the AIDS pandemic in unprecedented detail. (more…)
Argentinien ist einer der größten Sojaproduzenten der Welt, ein großer Teil wird im Nordwesten des Landes angebaut. Die Umwelt in der Provinz Salta wurde dadurch massiv verändert, Proteste gibt es dennoch nicht. Die Bevölkerung nimmt das weitgehend hin – warum, hat der Geograph Robert Hafner erforscht. (more…)
Expertise, resources found at Mizzou allow researchers to study pest-resistance in corn that could help sustain projected 9 billion global population
COLUMBIA, Mo. – According to estimates, the current global population is more than 7.4 billion people and is growing at a rate of 88 million people per year. Developing corn varieties that are resistant to pests is vital to sustain the estimated 9 billion global population by 2050. Now, researchers at the University of Missouri, using advanced nuclear methods, have determined the mechanisms corn plants use to combat the western corn rootworm, a major pest threatening the growth of the vital food source. Scientists believe that using the knowledge gained from these cutting-edge studies could help crop breeders in developing new resistant lines of corn and make significant strides toward solving global food shortages. (more…)
Researchers from North Carolina State University and the Open University of Catalonia have developed a technique for creating complex predictive tools that can be used to make effective decisions about word-of-mouth marketing for online products and services. (more…)
Earth’s earliest community of complex sea creatures lived in a warm, slimy, planetary petri dish that nurtured a broad array of exotic species. Yet we likely wouldn’t know about it at all, scientists say, if not for a quirk in the chemistry of ancient oceans. (more…)
Forscher untersuchen, wie Moose in Gegenden mit unwirtlichen Bedingungen überleben können
Den Einfluss des Klimawandels auf die Pflanzenwelt in der Antarktis verstehen: Der Rektor der Universität Freiburg, Prof. Dr. Hans-Jochen Schiewer, und der Präsident des Korea Polar Research Institute KOPRI/Südkorea, Dr. Ho-Il Yoon, haben ein Kooperationsabkommen für Moosforschung unterzeichnet. (more…)
