Eva Olsson analysed a total of 74 texts produced by 37 16-year-old pupils at a municipal secondary school in southwest Sweden. Two different texts were…
The winter weather in Gothenburg and large parts of North-West Europe is partly down to the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), in other words the differences in…
The men from western Sweden who were interviewed in depth for the thesis thought it only natural for the focus to be on the woman, as it is she who carries,…
Producing around 5.5 million meals a day, the catering sector accounts for around a quarter of total food consumption in Sweden, and rising. As such, catering…
Sounds homey, huh?At least it might be for inhabitants of the Kuril Islands, an 810-mile archipelago that stretches from Japan to Russia. The islands, formed…
Swedish scientists now show that bacteria in polluted rivers become resistant to a range of antibiotics. International experts fear that this may contribute to…
What could happen depends on trends in fertility and mortality—and both variables are complex and not easy to forecast. With respect to fertility, some…
While our scientific understanding of how black carbon and tropospheric ozone affect climate and public health has significantly improved in recent years, the…
Failure to pursue a program for recycling spent nuclear fuel has put the U.S. far behind other countries and represents a missed opportunity to enhance the…
Evaluating its effectiveness, however, is a much trickier endeavor. Thomas Dietz, a sociology and environmental science and policy professor at Michigan State…
The advent of safe and more effective birth control means that people have better control of when and if they have children, said John Casterline, director of…
Barton, a professor in ASU's School of Human Evolution and Social Change, will discuss “Looking for the Future in the Past: Long-Term Change in Socioecological…
New research published by BioMed Central's open access journal Molecular Cancer shows that reovirus infected cancer cells secrete proteins which, even when…
Malaria is spread by mosquitoes which breed in open water and spend much of their larval stage feeding on fungi and microorganisms at the water surface.New…
Food scientist Julie Goddard recently received a four-year, $488,000 grant from the United States Department of Agriculture’s Agriculture and Food Research…
They're looking at neutrinos, tiny particles with a major influence on physics research.Glenn Horton-Smith, associate professor of physics, is leading the…