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Wireless communication: EARTH project scoops Future Internet Award!

With the carbon footprint of the mobile communications sector set to triple by 2020, making the way we communicate greener is a key priority of the European Commission's Digital Agenda strategy. And an EU-funded project that set out to do just that has j...

The gene that boosts sugar beet yields

A European team of researchers has discovered a gene with the potential to increase sugar beet yields. Presented in the journal Current Biology, the findings of the study show how the long-sought bolting gene B in the sugar beet crop could help seed produ...

Sophisticated simulations predict future warming

The chances of our planet being hit by a global warming of 3 degrees Celsius by 2050 is as likely as it being hit by an increase of 1.4 degrees, new research shows. Presented in the journal Nature Geoscience, the British study ran close to 10 000 climate ...


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