A global team of scientists, including Associate Professor Thomas Newsome from the Faculty of Science, is warning that rising fossil fuel use is pushing Earth into an unpredictable new phase of the climate crisis. An international team of scientists, including Associate Professor Thomas Newsome from the University of Sydney, is warning that the Earth is stepping into a critical and unpredictable new phase of the climate crisis, with environmental conditions that have never been encountered in human history.

A tissue-culture propagation technology developed at The University of Queensland to grow hundreds of plants from a single cutting is set to bolster avocado production across Latin America to meet growing demand.

Scholars join forces with the community to build solutions to Canada's second-leading cause of the disease When people think of lung cancer, they often associate it with tobacco smoking. However, the second leading cause of lung cancer in Canada is radon, which poses a greater health risk in Canada than in many other parts of the world.

Sustainable development goals for water quality will not be met without the involvement of citizen scientists, argue an international team led by a UCL researcher, in a new policy brief. The policy brief and attached technical brief are published by Earthwatch Europe on behalf of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)-coordinated World Water Quality Alliance that has supported citizen science projects in Kenya, Tanzania and Sierra Leone.

Neural networks have a remarkable ability to learn specific tasks, such as identifying handwritten digits. However, these models often experience "catastrophic forgetting" when taught additional tasks: They can successfully learn the new assignments, but "forget" how to complete the original. For many artificial neural networks, like those that guide self-driving cars, learning additional tasks thus requires being fully reprogrammed.

Permafrost, the thick layer of perennially frozen ground that covers much of the Arctic, slows down the migration of Arctic rivers, according to a new Caltech study.

Physicists like to measure things, and they like those measurements to be as precise as possible. That means working at unfathomably small scales, where distances are much smaller than even the diameters of subatomic particles. Researchers also want to measure time down to a precision of less than one second per tens of billions of years.

Machine learning method could speed path to cleaner energy solutions Johns Hopkins engineers develop a way to streamline solar cell testing, dramatically accelerating a process that can be slow and costly The process of testing new solar cell technologies has traditionally been slow and costly, requiring multiple steps.

Provost's Fellows for Public Engagement will amplify the 'trusted voice' of Johns Hopkins The program will invest in the university's capacity to increase the reach and societal impact of Johns Hopki

Study of the U.S. shows homes in the South and Southwest could use more aid for energy costs, due to a growing need for air conditioning in a warming climate. A growing portion of Americans who are struggling to pay for their household energy live in the South and Southwest, reflecting a climate-driven shift away from heating needs and toward air conditioning use, an MIT study finds.

A research scientist and internationally recognized authority in the field of blood cell development reflects on 45 years at MIT.

Study: Grieving in the "Golden Cage-: How Unauthorized Immigrants Contend with Death and Mourn from Afar Restricted by immigration laws, unauthorized immigrants in the United States face severe challenges, including the inability to visit family members left behind.

Far fewer minerals are named after women than men-researchers fear gap in naming convention rate will never close Study: Gender in mineral names: A record of past and ongoing gender diversity, equity

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Researchers from the University of Oxford have collaborated with the United Nations (UN) on a new report that focuses on the legal recognition,Öland rights and mobility (including transboundary movement) of Mobile Indigenous Peoples.

Two Imperial-led projects aimed at improving cancer diagnosis have been funded as part of a UK government drive to improve cancer care.

Rescue coordination center staff are often faced with the challenge of callers being unable to describe an emergency situation precisely - but technological progress is opening up new avenues: thanks

Study: "What you post in the group stays in the group-: Examining the affordances of bounded social media places Does it feel as if social media is becoming less social?