Consumer preferences for sustainably produced meat and meat substitutes in Japan

Meat has multiple nutritional benefits and is consumed as the primary source of protein by an…

Nutrients of the Changjiang river system linked to the land-use changes and climate variability

This study examines the state changes of nutrients (nitrogen, phosphorus and silicon) from one of the…

New method helps clarify the global organic carbon cycle

Oceans serve as a sink for carbon. This means that carbon from the atmosphere is stored…

Climate risk insurance can effectively mitigate economic losses

Global warming is expected to lead to an accumulation of particularly intense hurricanes in the United…

Enabling nanoscale thermoelectrics with a novel organometallic molecular junction

The Seebeck effect is a thermoelectric phenomenon by which a voltage or current is generated when…

Extensive testing shows dogs' tails are not used for stabilization

A team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Friedrich-Schiller-University, and the Georgia…

Stem cell model allows researchers to explore the earliest stages of sex determination in mice and humans

During embryonic development, two different cascades of genetic signals determine whether the embryo’s primordial gonad will…

How climate change impacts the Indian Ocean dipole, leading to severe droughts and floods

With a new analysis of long-term climate data, researchers say they now have a much better…

Hubble finds that ghost light among galaxies stretches far back in time

In giant clusters of hundreds or thousands of galaxies, innumerable stars wander among the galaxies like…

Map of ancient ocean 'dead zones' could predict future locations, impacts

Researchers have created a map of oceanic ‘dead zones’ that existed during the Pliocene epoch, when…