Research lab
UK public research university in Sheffield, England, with research spanning biosciences, ecology, engineering and the social sciences.
A 41-author team from 23 institutions defines wood security and lists 20 challenges, urging that it rank with food, energy and water security. The list comes from a scored expert workshop, so it ranks judgement and sets a research agenda.
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Sheffield and York researchers imaged two DNA helices with grooves aligned like a zip, confirming a pairing predicted more than 20 years ago. Simulations credit bridges of positive ions that form most readily at certain sequences, a model so far tested only on purified DNA.
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University of Sheffield researchers found more than half of 250-plus UK residents surveyed would welcome Hermann's tortoises and bee-eaters in local parks. For park managers planning refuges for heat-stressed species, public resistance among those asked was weaker than the researchers expected.
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Cambridge and Sheffield researchers linked restoration at nearly 130,000 African sites to changes in tree loss up to 10 kilometers outside project boundaries. Accounting that stops at a project's edge can miss an effect almost as large as the one it measures, in either direction.
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Ninety-two percent of cafe customers surveyed could not tell whether a cup was already costing them money, and the behavioural case for a mandated charge rests on a field experiment in three university cafes.
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A Leeds-led team sequenced 363 birds and 51 shared food and water resources at 12 farmland sites, and found the more virulent Type A strain over twice as prevalent in birds feeding at dense stations as at wild seed.
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A Nature study reports grass production in Kruger National Park rose 28% between 1989 and 2021, with rising CO2 the only explanation that fits. C4 grasses were assumed to be indifferent.
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