Abandoned farmlands could play a role in fighting climate change. A new study shows exactly where they are.
Farmland could be used to grow crops like switchgrass or sorghum, which can trap carbon in the soil and serve as feedstocks for biofuels and replacements for petrochemicals. #ClimateChange#Research#Science
Regarding the Research mechanic: it's a timeline of Industrial Revolution inventions. They happen in the outside world independently.
You use Research Points to unlock or invest in them (to make them available earlier, as if your scientists were participating in the global scientific community).
This study aims to find out about trans people's participation in domestic tasks and to find out whether or not their experiences differ due to their upbringing or life experiences.
Early career researchers want Open Science, Farnham et al (2024) :
"Open #Science is encouraged by the European Union and many other political and scientific institutions. However, scientific practice is proving slow to change. We propose, as early career researchers, that it is our task to change scientific #research into open scientific research and commit to #OpenScience principles."
What's up with rivers in Alaska's Brooks Range? They are turning orange, likely because nearby permafrost is thawing and causing all sorts of downstream effects...
A 1972 MIT study predicted that rapid economic growth would lead to societal collapse in the mid 21st century. A new paper shows we’re unfortunately right on schedule.
A remarkable new study by a director at one of the largest accounting firms in the world has found that a famous, decades-old warning from MIT about the risk of industrial civilization collapsing appears to be accurate based on new empirical data
"#MEAction’s narrative activity study with Mayo Clinic opens today! We’re looking for people with ME/CFS or Long COVID with PEM to share their experiences.
The survey will be open from 5/24/2024 to 6/23/2024."
Long survey (estimate says 20-90 minutes?) but you can do it in sections and come back.