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  • How to feed a hungry world
    Producing enough food for the world's population in 2050 will be easy. But doing it at an acceptable cost to the planet will depend on research into everything from high-tech seeds to low-tech farming practices.
  • Save the census
    The Canadian government should rethink its decision to change the way census data are collected.
  • Palaeontology: Burrow builders
    Geology38, 711?714 (2010) 10.1130/G30829.1Fossil burrows in ocean sediments from the Precambrian?Cambrian period about 540 million years ago are ubiquitous in the fossil record, but the creatures that created these Treptichnus burrows (pictured, left) remained a mystery.
  • Physics: Mini mass
    Phys. Rev. Lett. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.031301 (2010)The mass of the elusive neutrino is less than 0.28 electronvolts ? the lowest upper limit predicted so far ? according to Shaun Thomas and his colleagues at University College London.Neutrinos are abundant in
  • Geoscience: When sea ice melts
    Geophys. Res. Lett. doi:10.1029/2010GL042496 (2010)Rapid loss of floating sea ice is contributing a tiny amount, 50 micrometres, to the current annual global sea-level rise of around 3 millimetres.Andrew Shepherd of the University of Leeds, UK, and his colleagues