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How modern crops can ensure food security in a heatwave

  • Written by: The Conversation
imageIndia has been sweltering recently – but plants can cope better than people.Sanjay Baid / EPA

India’s heatwave again highlights just how seriously extreme weather conditions threaten our ability to put sufficient nutritious food on all our plates. Headlines have focused on the human deaths – at least 2,500 at last count –...

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Pseudoscience and conspiracy theory are not victimless crimes against science

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imagePseudoscience: we should know better by now.

News of anti-vaxxer movements, demands to teach creationism in schools as science, and dubious claims for the health-giving properties of strange diets is enough to make you wonder if some people have forgotten or forsaken the scientific method entirely.

Astronomer Carl Sagan once said:

In every country,...

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Greece is just the start of Europe's problems

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imageUnited in disagreement.EPA/Julien Warnand

As we hold our breath and wait for the eventual outcome of the Greek bail-out negotiations, it’s tempting to see Europe’s challenges as purely economic in nature. We assume that Europe will always hold a permanent and influential place on the world map, championing democracy.

But how robust is...

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