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Dog waste may harm nature reserve biodiversity by fertilising the soil
Dogs’ urine and faeces bring large amounts of nitrogen and phosphorus into suburban nature reserves, which could be harmful to plant biodiversity Life 7 February 2022 By Chen Ly A dog in a wildflower patch at St Abbs Head Nature Reserve, UKRebecca Cole / Alamy Stock Photo Taking your dog for a walk in a…
Springer Nature expands its partnership with the CLOCKSS digital archive
Springer Nature, the worlds largest academic book publisher, will partner with CLOCKSS to ensure the long-term preservation of all books published since 1815. Heidelberg | London – WEBWIRE – Friday, January 14, 2022 Springer Nature, the worlds largest academic book publisher, will partner with CLOCKSS to ensure the long-term preservation of all books published since 1815.…
ALMA Investigates Nature of Water-Fountain Stellar Systems
One of the most poorly understood stellar evolutionary paths is that of binary stellar systems undergoing common-envelope evolution, when the enormous atmosphere of a giant star engulfs the orbit of a smaller companion. Although this interaction leads to a great variety of astrophysical systems, direct empirical studies are difficult because few objects experiencing common-envelope evolution…
‘It’s Just Human Nature:’ A New Book Examines Why Our Work Is Better When We Work Less
In 2017, reporters Anne Helen Petersen and Charlie Warzel moved from New York City to Missoula, Mont., and started asking some existential questions. The couple — who both wrote for BuzzFeed at the time — were working from home and began to feel like something was fundamentally off about the remote work bargain. Why, in…
A Wrinkle in Nature Could Lead to Alien Life
I grew up in a small village in a very rural part of England. It was a landscape capped with the huge skies of a low-lying coastal zone. Gently rolling fields, long hedgerows, and a lot of farms. Some of the people running those farms came from so many generations that they could point to…