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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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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...
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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A study in Nature details a machine learning model that can use front facing smartphone cameras to approximate heart rate
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Using mouse models of clonal hematopoiesis, a study in Nature finds that sleep and exercise can curb cardiovascular complications of the disease🧪👇
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A vast whale graveyard discovered on the floor of the Indian Ocean comprises 476 whale fossil sites (with 5 active whale falls) extending ~1,200 km along the seafloor at depths between 4,200 and 7,000m. Whale falls have occurred there for at least 5.3 million years.🧪👇
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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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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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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 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 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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Integrated palaeontological, sedimentological and geochemical analyses of ancient rocks from Australia show that early eukaryotes were largely restricted to oxygenated benthic habitats, probably posse...
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...
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.
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.
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.
Researchers uncovered an enormous deep-sea accumulation of whale remains in the southeastern Indian Ocean, showing long-term, specialized ecosystems and an extensive fossil record that offers new insi...
