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Francesca Cesari
A new study in Nature quantifies mining-induced deforestation of dense forest across sub-Saharan Africa. For each hectare of deforestation attributed to the mine an additional 34 hectares of forest were lost to offsite drivers such as agricultural expansion. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A study in Nature quantifies the contribution that insect pollinators make to nutrient intake and income in smallholder farming communities in Nepal > they are responsible for 44% of people’s farming income and over 20% of their intake of key micronutrients.🧪
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A new study shows that individuals listening both to language and auditory stimuli while anesthetized still showed neural responses in the hippocampus indicating that the information was still being processed, despite the fact that patients were seemingly unconscious.🧪
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A study in Nature details a machine learning model that can use front facing smartphone cameras to approximate heart rate
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Plants need nitrogen but use it inefficiently. A new study shows that, in maize, the plastoglobule droplets within chloroplast organise key nitrogen-fixation enzymes, supercharging nitrogen use. The findings could be relevant to growing crops using less fertiliser. 🧪👇
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Androgens generally dampen anti-cancer immunity. A new study finds that in brain tumours they counteract a neural pathway that would otherwise suppress anti-tumour responses, making androgen signalling protective within the brain. 🧪
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Published in Nature, the results of the PEACE project, a clinical autopsy program to study the evolution of lung cancer.
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A study in Nature suggests that in the absence of deforestation the Amazon forest could transition to a non-forest state with 3.7-4.0oC of global warming. With 22 to 28% deforestation a more widespread transition could occur with 1.5-1.9oC of warming🧪
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The first multinational representative dataset from LMICs on child sexual exploitation and abuse shows the role of technology, individual, familial and sociocultural factors in facilitating it.🧪
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The oldest known eukaryotes, living around 1.75 billion years ago, were largely restricted to oxygenated bottom waters, only expanding into planktonic habitats during the Neoproterozoic Era (from a billion to 540 million years ago)🧪 See new study published in Nature👇
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Francesca Cesari
Extensive mining activity leads to large-scale deforestation of dense tropical forests across sub-Saharan Africa, driven particularly by key energy transition minerals such as cobalt.
A machine-learning model that uses smartphone cameras to measure heart rate in the background during normal daily phone use and subsequently estimate resting heart rate could make it easier for p...
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Quantification of links among insect pollinators, crop plants, nutrient intake and income of smallholder communities in Nepal show that pollinators substantially contribute to their income and micronu...
Chloroplast plastoglobules act as nitrogen-assimilation hubs in maize, with key enzymes enhancing nitrogen-use efficiency and offering new strategies for developing high-yield, sustainable crops.
DNA-sequencing data from primary tumours and paired metastases from participants in the TRACERx lung study and PEACE autopsy programme are used to analyse the metastatic diversity of advanced non-smal...
Integrated palaeontological, sedimentological and geochemical analyses of ancient rocks from Australia show that early eukaryotes were largely restricted to oxygenated benthic habitats, probably posse...
One in six Internet-using adolescents in parts of Africa and Asia faced technology-facilitated sexual abuse in 2020–21. As digital access expands globally, better protection is crucial.
