A study published on 19 December in Nature Communications has shown that the active ingredient in eyedrops originally being developed to treat eye disease may be effective in treating an
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In October, Bord na Móna ― an Irish semi-state owned peat harvesting and energy company based in Newbridge, County Kildare ― announced it will close 17 of its 62 active
A new study slated for publication on 1 March 2019 in Science of the Total Environment has found that bacterial infections typically found in humans, including Salmonella serovar and Campylobacter
This week, the PsychENCODE Consortium published a collection of 10 research papers in Science, Science Advances, and Science Translational Medicine presenting 3 years of work aimed at understanding the complex
Climate-smart agriculture is a promising approach to addressing the threat of climate change and can effectively increase yields, benefit the environment, and increase farmer income. Such strategies―including diversification or rotation
As part of the UN climate summit, COP24, in Katowice, Poland from 2–14 December, the world’s top investors came together on 10 December calling for urgent reductions in carbon emissions and
A report presented on 8 December at a side event to the UN Intergovernmental Conference to adopt the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration in Marrakech, Morrocco has
A report published in Science on 6 December has revealed the extent to which private research funders are stowing away cash in offshore havens. The exposé entitled “Private research funders
On 5 December, NASA launched the first-of-its-kind Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) instrument designed to create a 3D map of the world’s forests. The so-called Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI)
A new paper published on 5 December in Nature presents the first global map of the distribution of atmospheric ammonia (NH3) based on satellite data (1). The new data has