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FeaturesJaguars
The jaguar is a wild cat species and the only extant member of the genus Panthera native to the Americas. The jaguar’s present range extends from Southwestern United States and Mexico in North America, across much of Central America, and south to Paraguay and northern Argentina in South America. ...
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FeaturesNegative emissions technology needed to head off climate change
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine is calling on the US government to launch a concerted effort to develop new and improved negative emissions technologies to remove and sequester CO2 directly from the air. The panel concludes that these technologies, which involve chemical processes to capture carbon dioxide from the air, are economically viable and crucial to mitigate the threat of climate change.
‘We can now say that there is a high probability that we can produce a viable way to do direct air capture at something like $100 (£77) per tonne of CO2 or less,’ says Stephen Pacala, an ecology and evolutionary biology professor at Princeton University who chaired the committee that wrote the report. ‘We would then reach the capacities that the world would need to achieve the climate goals that are embedded in the Paris agreement and elsewhere,’ he tells Chemistry World. ‘It would also provide a way to continue to use fossil fuels, but without a climate impact – you could offset those carbon emissions.’ -
FeaturesFoot of ‘world’s oldest child’ shows how our ancestors moved
More than three million years ago, a distant cousin called Australopithecus afarensis was walking around on two legs – marking a key chapter in the human story. But a new study of a rare A. afarensis toddler, published in Science Advances, suggests her feet retained some ape-like traits.
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FeaturesSurveyLegend examples
Everyone loves a good movie but what’s the best? It’s holiday time, you may be stuffed after a great meal, tired of anything related to shopping and you are ready for some after-dinner discussion with the family that doesn’t involve politics.
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Everyone loves a good movie but what’s the best? it’s holiday time, you may be stuffed after a great meal, tired of anything related to shopping and you are ready for some after-dinner discussion with the family that doesn’t involve politics.
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Everyone loves a good movie but what’s the best? It’s holiday time, you may be stuffed after a great meal, tired of anything related to shopping and you are ready for some after-dinner discussion with the family that doesn’t involve politics.
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It’s holiday time, you may be stuffed after a great meal, tired of anything related to shopping and you are ready for some after-dinner discussion with the family that doesn’t involve politics
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FeaturesA word from the chair and CEO
As we look back over the past year, delivering on the ambitious agenda outlined in our Blueprint for responsible investment has been the focus of much of our work. PRI Chair Martin Skancke One of our first priorities was to empower asset owners. In recent months, we ...
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FeaturesFemale Nobel Laureates
David Loskins looks at female Nobel laureates over time and the details of each individual.
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FeaturesI experienced the patriarchy from both sides of the gender gap
Paula Williams transitioned from male to female six years ago. She talks about learning about her white male privilege the hard way
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FeaturesWhy the patriarchy isn’t good for men and how to fix it
Societies can be taught to be less misogynistic, but the first step is understanding how gender norms have backfired on men as well as women
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FeaturesHow protective parents exacerbate gender differences
Yes, men’s and women’s brains are wired differently – but the science shows that outside influences can also shape our gender identity
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FeaturesThe hidden reasons why societies are violent towards women
30 per cent of women experience sexual violence in their lifetimes – bad parenting, low respect and the glorification of male competition are to blame
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FeaturesSpecial report: The origins of sexism
Human societies weren’t always male-dominated. The switch came when we became farmers – and that suggests ways to roll back towards a more equal system.
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Construction top 100
If the UK construction industry’s top 10 largest contractors had combined their most recent turnover figures, they would have posted a revenue of £31.9bn. At the same time, combining the pre-tax profit/loss figures for those same 10 companies would leave you with a loss of £52.9m – and an average ...
