The pandemic has impacted our lives in a multitude of ways, many of which will no doubt be felt for years to come. While many of those effects are clearly negative, UConn researchers have identified at least one positive ...
Social Sciences
Sep 2, 2022
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Green spaces can promote well-being, but they may not always be benign. Sometimes, they can be a tool for control.
Social Sciences
Apr 14, 2022
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Researchers at the University of Maryland (UMD) have discovered an entirely new role for a well-known plant molecule called ACC, providing the first clear example of ACC acting on its own as a likely plant hormone. Just like ...
Biotechnology
Aug 14, 2020
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Millions of American homes could become unsellable—or could be sold at significant losses to their senior-citizen owners—between now and 2040, according to new research from the University of Arizona.
Economics & Business
Aug 11, 2020
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In September of 1962, President John F. Kennedy delivered a speech urging that the United States should "go to the moon … not because it is easy, but because it is hard." In the early 1960s, none of the technology required ...
Economics & Business
Dec 16, 2019
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More funding should be made available to improve, maintain and encourage people to connect with green spaces in cities so residents can reap the health and wellbeing rewards they provide, according to researchers at the University ...
Environment
Mar 27, 2019
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When you think of climate change and community resilience, visions of seawalls, renewable energy projects and other physical things may come to mind.
Environment
Sep 14, 2018
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Students from the Institute of Landscape Architecture are planning some natural ways to cool the heat-afflicted metropolis of Singapore. Their testing ground is a disused railway line reclaimed by nature and converted into ...
Energy & Green Tech
Jul 11, 2018
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A team of scientists from Purdue University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences has used CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing technology to develop a variety of rice that produces 25-31 percent more grain and would have been virtually ...
Biotechnology
May 22, 2018
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Landscape architecture is not a subject commonly associated with refugee settlements. But in a field of study where resilience is often applied to help fortify coasts against erosion or to safeguard habitats against loss, ...
Social Sciences
May 10, 2018
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