In The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation, author Jon Gertner describes, in a new and compelling way, the inner workings of arguably one of the greatest industrial resear
African agriculture is at the crossroads. Persistent food shortages are now being compounded by new threats arising from climate change.
I am very proud to receive an honorary degree from Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT).
As the Bio International Convention begins here in Boston Monday, the most brilliant thinkers around the world will meet to discuss innovations in the life sciences, drug discovery, biofuels, and nano
Almost three billion people around the world—or 4 out of every 10 individuals—are exposed to high levels of smoke each day from traditional cookstoves.
There is an urgent need to create a new generation of innovation-oriented agricultural that efficiently bring together agricultural research, training, commercialization, and extension.
Human societies fashion themselves through rites of memory, gilding and illuminating some pages of the past while consigning others to forgetfulness.
Solar Radiation Management (SRM) has two characteristics that make it useful for managing climate risk: it is quick and it is cheap.
If implementation of proposals to engineer the climate through solar-radiation management (SRM) ever occurs, it is likely to be contingent on climate sensitivity.
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