The pandemic had a disproportionate impact on female finance researchers, according to a new Texas McCombs…
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Thinking about a gap year? Here are some questions to ask yourself (and a note for anxious parents)
Many year 12 students who are receiving their exam results at the moment will go straight…
The lenses of fishes' eyes record their lifetime exposure to toxic mercury, new research finds
Mercury pollution is a global threat to human health, especially to unborn babies and young children.…
Emily Brontë's death needs to be radically reimagined—an expert explains
Novelist Charlotte Brontë was devastated when her sister Emily died from tuberculosis on December 19, 1848. …
Rudolph is coping with climate change better than feared—for now
The North Pole is not what it once was. The Arctic is the area on the…
UN biodiversity conference: what does living in harmony with nature look like?
The 196 countries meeting for the UN Convention on Biological Diversity conference (COP15) in Montreal, Canada,…
Growing use of pharmaceuticals found to have increased carbon emissions during the COVID-19 pandemic
A group of researchers measuring carbon emissions in a large university hospital with a research center…
Children born today will see literally thousands of animals disappear in their lifetime, as global food webs collapse
Climate change is one of the main drivers of species loss globally. We know more plants…
Phosphorus supply is increasingly disrupted—we are sleepwalking into a global food crisis
Without phosphorus food cannot be produced, since all plants and animals need it to grow. Put…
'Vaccinating' frogs may or may not protect them against a pandemic—but it does provide another option for conservation
When the COVID-19 pandemic first emerged, many wildlife disease researchers like me were not too surprised.…