Long-term agricultural data are essential for understanding how food production adapts to environmental, technological, and socio-economic changes. Japan’s extensive historical records provide valuable insights into crop productivity trends…
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Expected effects of a global transformation of agricultural pest management
We employ a robust, multi-stage procedure to design, implement, and analyze our global survey (Fig. 4). First, we defined baseline and target scenarios of pest management for the assessment. Second, to provide a holistic evaluation of the…
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Radiative Cooling Powers Fans By Night
Instead of absorbing energy from the sun to produce electricity, a new class of devices generates power by absorbing heat from its surroundings and beaming it at outer space. Such devices, which do not require exotic materials as their…
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Saturday Citations: Cancer therapy breakthrough; Sumatran tigers thrive; frogs eat what, now?
This week, JPL scientists reported that glaciers speed up and slow down at predictable intervals. CERN’s ATLAS experiment detected evidence for the decay of a Higgs boson into a muon-antimuon pair. And researchers discovered that exercise slows…
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Ghostwriters, polo shirts, and the fall of a landmark pesticide study
A flagship study that declared the weedkiller Roundup posed no serious health risks has been retracted with little fanfare, ending a 25-year saga that exposed how corporate interests can distort scientific research and influence government…
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BECA: A Computer Vision Dataset for Long-Term Recognition In Beef Cattle
The BECA was developed to bridge the gap between AI model validation in controlled environments and its deployment in precision livestock farming. It comprises multiple beef cattle breeds and a systematically collected set of long-term…
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Food security under climatic extremes in the Asia-Pacific region
Over the past decade, climate extremes and associated weather events have impacted crop production and food security in the Asia-Pacific Region, which comprises half the global population1,2. In the future, the extent, frequency, and magnitude of…
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Enhancing seed, land and water management in humanitarian interventions for urban areas under siege
Enhancing seed, land and water management in humanitarian interventions for urban areas under siege
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Hornet-eating frog shows remarkable venom resistance
A frog with an unexpectedly strong resistance to venom has been identified, and it routinely eats hornets despite the insects’ dangerous stingers. Researchers believe this species may become a useful model organism for exploring how animals…
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Scientists discover why anacondas stayed giants for 12 million years
A research group led by the University of Cambridge examined giant anaconda fossils found in South America and determined that these snakes reached their full body size about 12.4 million years ago. According to their analysis, anacondas have…
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