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  • Agricultural carbon footprints, renewable energy and sustainable development in Asia

    Pre-estimation results

    This sub-section presents the findings of essential pre-estimation tests conducted to assess cross-sectional dependence, stationarity, cointegration, and slope homogeneity among the variables. The results of these…

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  • The comfort rebound from heat pumps and impact on household cooling behaviour and energy security

    The comfort rebound from heat pumps and impact on household cooling behaviour and energy security

  • Hernández, D. Understanding ‘energy insecurity’ and why it matters to health. Soc. Sci. Med. 167, 1–10 (2016).

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  • US EIA. U.S. energy insecure households were billed more for…

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  • AI Drives Battery Innovation at Microsoft, IBM

    AI Drives Battery Innovation at Microsoft, IBM

    When Microsoft researchers in 2023 identified a new kind of material that could dramatically reduce the amount of lithium needed in rechargeable batteries, it felt like combing through a haystack in record time. That’s because their discovery…

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  • Before they sucked blood, leeches were ocean hunters

    Before they sucked blood, leeches were ocean hunters

    A newly described fossil reveals that leeches are at least 200 million years older than scientists previously thought, and that their earliest ancestors may have feasted not on blood, but on smaller marine creatures.

    “This is the only body fossil…

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  • Resistance of ERG24 sterol C-14 reductase to heterocyclic amine antifungals

    Resistance of ERG24 sterol C-14 reductase to heterocyclic amine antifungals

  • Fisher, M. C., Hawkins, N. J., Sanglard, D. & Gurr, S. J. Worldwide emergence of resistance to antifungal drugs challenges human health and food security. Science 360, 739–742 (2018).

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  • Race, rates, and energy insecurity: exploring racial disparities in electricity costs and consumption in U.S. utility service areas

    Race, rates, and energy insecurity: exploring racial disparities in electricity costs and consumption in U.S. utility service areas

  • Alberini, A., Gans, W. & Velez-Lopez, D. Residential consumption of gas and electricity in the U.S.: the role of prices and income. Energy Econ. 33 (5), 870–881 (2011).

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  • why I’m happy to admit to my research failures, and you should too

    why I’m happy to admit to my research failures, and you should too

    The open-science movement has promoted the sharing of scientific protocols, statistical-analysis programs and data files. These efforts have undoubtedly made it easier to see how researchers come to their conclusions. But methods and findings…

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  • Ocean Genomes: reference genome resources for marine vertebrates

    Ocean Genomes: reference genome resources for marine vertebrates

    Reference genomes are a foundational resource in contemporary biology, underpinning breakthroughs across various scientific domains such as medicine, agriculture, biodiversity, ecology, conservation and evolution. Indeed, increasing demand for…

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