Corn, soy and sugarcane come up short. The authors urge governments to be far more selective about which biofuels they support, as not all are more…
However, it is a matter of life and death for caterpillars of large blue butterflies that dupe ant workers into believing them to be one of the ant’s own…
Tsetse flies, which transmit the trypanosome that causes sleeping sickness in humans and its equivalent in animals, primarily feed on the blood of various…
The insect attacks the fronds and feeds on the palms' sap, excreting a honeydew on which sooty mould fungi develop. This is what causes the blackish colouring…
CIRAD imported this fruit tree into Réunion in 1993, as part of a plan to diversify agriculture in the humid highlands. To develop well in Réunion, the species…
As Renaud Lancelot, Project Coordinator and CIRAD researcher, says: “EDEN’s biggest scientific success has been to combine the approaches of specialists in the…
New research tracking the number of cases of childhood eczema across the globe has revealed big changes in the prevalence of the condition over the last five…
“Rock in 11 dimensions: where physics and guitars collide” is an exciting, interactive and inspiring free talk for school students throughout the UK, building…
Many people who are guilty of this type of abuse go free due to a lack of evidence; others are wrongly suspected of a crime that they did not commit….
Amongst the chemical methods of authentification, there are two different strategies. On the one hand, the employment of markers – chemical compounds that are…
Rather than focusing on how an individual factor is related to health, the study calculates the combined impact of these four simply-defined forms of…
As part of field studies conducted from 1993 to 2000 on the mountain crests of the western Sierra Madre and in the more arid regions in the south of the…
Following validation by a number of independent groups worldwide, in studies involving more than 8,000 patients, the American Society of Clinical Oncology has…
Introducing all-optical circuits is exactly what one European research group has done. The driving force behind the research is the ever-faster data transfer…
Europeans are more mobile than ever before, moving not only around their own countries, but also across a largely borderless EU, in pursuit of leisure,…
This enzyme can appear even when the cancer has not yet developed and lesions are precancerous. Thus this molecule would serve as a good marker in the…
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