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How Smarter Technology Will Feed the Planet
A tech revolution in agriculture is improving yields and driving down waste-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Coastal Conservation Plan Sparks Fight Over Sand
Beach communities that rely on dredging to replenish protective dunes object to expanded federal protections-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
The BBVA Foundation recognizes Claudia Goldin for pioneering analysis of the gender gap
(BBVA Foundation) The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Economics, Finance and Management category has gone in this eleventh edition to the American economic historian Claudia Goldin "for her groundbreaking contributions to the hist...
United against jammers: Researchers develop more secure method for data transmission
(Chinese Association of Automation) The motto 'united we stand, divided we fall' has found new application in cyber security. Machines must transmit information in order to process it. A self-driving car, for instance, is designed to collec...
Can Soil Microbes Slow Climate Change?
One scientist has tantalizing results, but others are not convinced-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Study finds people who feed birds impact conservation
(Virginia Tech) Researchers analyzed how people who feed birds notice and respond to natural events at their feeders by collaborating with Project FeederWatch, a program managed by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology that engages more than 25,000 people t...
Syracuse University physicist discovers new class of pentaquarks
(Syracuse University) A professor of physics at Syracuse University's College of Arts and Sciences, has uncovered new information about a class of particles called pentaquarks. His findings could lead to a new understanding of the structure of m...
Sometimes it's not good to be green
(University of Minnesota) The greening or eutrophication of the world's lakes will increase the emission of methane into the atmosphere by 30 to 90 percent during the next 100 years, say authors of a March 26, 2019 paper in Nature Communications...
Virtual reality enables real-time, internal view of patient anatomy during treatment
(Society of Interventional Radiology) Immersive virtual reality (VR) may enable interventional radiologists to improve treatments using real-time 3D images from inside a patient's blood vessels. New research presented today at the Society of Int...
Tech's Brain Effect: It's Complicated
We don't yet know what the immersion in technology does to our brains, but one neuroscientist says the answer is likely to be that there's good, there's bad, and it's complex. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com