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Students from Washington State University will travel to Germany next summer for a new research exchange program exploring complex plant traits underlying resilience and yield. Funded by a $300,000 award from the National Science Foundation’s International Research Experiences for Students (IRES) initiative, the 10-week program…

Dear colleagues and students I am delighted to announce that the 2022 TB Davie Memorial Lecture will be presented by Professor Fran Elaine Baum, director of Stretton Health Equity at the University of Adelaide in Australia. The lecture will be a physical event and is organised by the Academic Freedom Committee (AFC),…

Placeholder while article actions loadWe should not read too much into Kansas voters’ surprisingly lopsided rejection last week of an amendment that would have declared that the state’s constitution does not guarantee a right to abortion. After all, this is one result in a single state — fewer than 1 million people voted.But I do think the…

It looks more and more likely that parts of the UK will be declared to be in drought on Friday. Here we look at what this could mean, and how long it might last.Why are we in this situation?The Environment Agency (EA) has already declared the whole of the UK is in a pre-drought stage, but if nationwide or regional droughts are declared we can…

New applicants for US unemployment aid rose last week to the highest number of claims since November, hinting at a labour market cool-down.There were 262,000 initial jobless claims on a seasonally adjusted basis in the week to August 6, according to US labour department data released on Thursday. This was slightly below economists’ expectations…

Firefighters from Germany, Greece, Poland, Austria and Romania are being sent to France to fight a blaze south of Bordeaux that has reignited after being brought under control two weeks ago, the European Commission announced on Thursday. The deployment, at France's request, was hailed by French President Emmanuel Macron, who wrote on Twitter:…

Aug 11 (Reuters) - McDonald's Corp (MCD.N) said on Thursday it plans on reopening its restaurants in Ukraine over the next few months in an early sign of western businesses returning to the country, even as the conflict with Russia continues.The world's biggest burger chain closed all its restaurants in Ukraine and Russia in March, following…

Britain and Denmark will provide more military and financial aid to Ukraine in its defense against Russia's invasion, the countries' defense ministers said during a Ukraine Donor Conference in Copenhagen.Denmark will up its financial aid to Ukraine by 110 million euros ($114 million), bringing its total financial aid for the embattled country…

Russia and Ukraine have accused each other of shelling Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, stoking international fears of a catastrophe on the continent. The Zaporizhzhia plant is in southern Ukraine, near the town of Enerhodar on the banks of the Dnieper River. It is one of the 10 biggest nuclear plants in the world. Built during the Soviet…

Placeholder while article actions loadJust before 1 p.m. on Wednesday, residents of a neighborhood in Evansville, Ind., heard and felt an earth-shattering rumble.“It sounded like a sonic boom,” Dorthy Waters told WFIE. “I thought a bomb fell on us or like a tree fell through the house; it shook so hard it went through my chest, it shook my…