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World hunger continues to increase, affecting 777 million people in 2015 and 815 million in 2016. Would it help if we changed the way we look at food in our societies? That’s the idea of José Luis Vivero-Pol. His 20 years in the field of food security and nutrition inspired José Luis...

To objectively evaluate an anti-deforestation programme, an international team of researchers carried out a randomised study in Uganda, the first of its kind in environmental science. The surprising results have been published in the journal Science. Human activity (heating, transport,...

The brain is divided into areas, each of which processes specific information. If a certain type of information is missing – such as sounds – the brain reorganises itself... but not at random! We have various areas in the brain which are intended to process specific types of sensory...

While the Arctic pack ice has continued to melt, the Antarctic pack ice tended rather to expand between 1979 and 2015, before its extent was also drastically reduced in 2016 and 2017. A surprising expansion phenomenon in the era of global warming! While at present the recent variation in the...