The EU wants to ensure greater sustainability in agricultural trade with the Global South—with the aim of minimizing the environmental and climate-damaging effects of importing crops such as soya, palm oil, coffee, and cocoa. However, this aspiration is often not fulfilled in practice.
Monrovia, UN Drive– April 24, 2024 – The Liberia Intellectual Property Office (LIPO) has signed an MOU with the Central Agricultural Research Institute (CARI) for the establishment of the Technology and Innovation Support Center (TISC). The TISC at CARI, which will be supported by the World Intellectual Property Organization, would facilitate unhindered access to highly []
Colin Desha — the Hawaiian-born, Los Angeles-based artist better known as Low Hum — makes music that feels like leaving home. It’s the trepidation of taking those first steps away from the familiar and into the unknown, the excitement inherent to uncertainty propelling you forward. As you move farther away from that which you’ve always […]
Bogota, Apr 24 (Prensa Latina) The Colombian Movement of Solidarity with Cuba on Wednesday thanked Cuba for its unconditional commitment in pursuit of peace for the South American nation, an initiative promoted by Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro. The post Colombia is grateful for Cuba’s unconditional support for peace first appeared on Prensa Latina.
The need for sustainable and environment-friendly solutions has accelerated the global demand for green and renewable technologies. In this regard, semiconductor photocatalysts have emerged as an attractive solution, owing to their potential in mitigating pollutants and harnessing solar energy efficiently. Photocatalysts are materials that initiate chemical reactions when exposed to light.
John Stone, a professor at the University of Barcelona, has found the request for two copies of Shakespeare's Othello to be sent to Lisbon in 1765, in the correspondence of the English scholar John Preston, a professor at the English College in Lisbon, addressed to the college's London agent, John Sheppard. Stone found this reference in the Ushaw College, in Durham (United Kingdom), where all the documents from the English College in Lisbon are now kept, after it closed its doors in 1973, after...
What if there was plastic-like material that could absorb excess nutrients from water and be used as a fertilizer when it decomposes? That product—a "bioplastic" material—has been created by University of Saskatchewan (USask) chemistry professor Dr. Lee Wilson and his research team, as detailed in a paper recently published in RSC Sustainability. The research team includes Ph.D. candidate Bernd G. K. Steiger, BSc student Nam Bui and postdoctoral fellow trainee Bolanle M. Babalola.
Google is consolidating the teams that focus on building artificial intelligence (AI) models across Google Research and Google DeepMind. All this work will now be done within Google DeepMind, Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet, said in a note to employees posted on the company’s website Thursday (April 18). Pichai said in the note that this move will “scale our […]
Neuromorphic computing represents a groundbreaking approach in artificial intelligence (AI) technology, drawing inspiration from the human brain’s structure and function. This innovative field utilizes systems like spiking neural networks (SNNs) to mimic the brain’s neural architecture, aiming to deliver significant improvements in speed and energy efficiency compared to traditional computing systems. By emulating the way […]
When we think of evolution, we think of a process that happens over hundreds or thousands of years. In research published in Ecology and Evolution a team led by Rick Relyea, Ph.D., professor of biological sciences and David M. Darrin Senior Endowed Chair at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, found a species of frog that has evolved over the course of merely 25 years. The adaptation was spurred on by something many assume is innocuous: salt.
Analysts at Sophos X-Ops are comparing the low-budget cybercrime tools to “junk guns” — cheap, imported weapons that flooded the U.S. in the 1960s and 1970s.
Many plant-based meats have seemingly done the impossible by recreating animal products ranging from beef to seafood. But beyond just the taste and texture, how do these products compare to the real thing in nutritional value? A small-scale study published in Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry shows that while some "plant steaks" and "plant cold cuts" might be comparable to meats on some fronts, their amino acid content and protein digestibility fall short.