Agroecology Is the Solution to World Hunger

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September 22, 2021

Agriculture Agroecology Is the Solution to World Hunger Millions of farmers are growing and sharing food in ways that enhance nutrition, biodiversity and quality of life By Raj Patel

Astronomy The Nail-Biting Journey of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Is About to Begin Before it can study the first stars and galaxies, the observatory must endure a sea voyage, a rocket launch and an all-or-nothing deployment sequence in deep space By Nikk Ogasa

Privacy How Facebook Hinders Misinformation Research The platform strictly limits and controls data access, which stymies scientists By Laura Edelson,Damon McCoy

Fossil Fuels China Says It Will Stop Financing Coal Power Abroad The announcement came as the U.S. promised quadruple its international climate finance contributions By Sara Schonhardt,E&E News

Engineering Winged Microchips Glide like Tree Seeds The tiny sensors could gather and transmit environmental data as they drift through the air By Nikk Ogasa

Cosmology New Type of Dark Energy Could Solve Universe Expansion Mystery Hints of a previously unknown, primordial form of the substance could explain why the cosmos now seems to be expanding faster than theory predicts By Davide Castelvecchi,Nature magazine

Evolution Meet the Bat Woman and Bat Man of India They sealed their love with dead bats. Now these researchers are on a mission to save India's endangered chiropteran species together. By Emily V. Driscoll

Planetary Science NASA Unveils Ice-Hunting VIPER Rover's Lunar Landing Site The space agency's first-ever robotic moon rover will touch down in late 2023 just west of Nobile, a crater near the lunar south pole By Mike Wall,SPACE.com

Behavior Discrimination Persists in Society--but Who Discriminates? Is discriminatory behavior widely dispersed or highly concentrated in a small number of people? By David Z. Hambrick

Psychology Making Eye Contact Signals a New Turn in a Conversation Neuroscientists have uncovered an intriguing subtlety in how we communicate—that is, when we're not on Zoom By Lydia Denworth

Paleontology Kids' Fossilized Handprints May Be Some of the World's Oldest Art Ice Age impressions in limestone show that human ancestors inhabited the area By Nicoletta Lanese,LiveScience

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FROM THE ARCHIVE Pandemic of Hunger COVID-19 is straining African food security but also presents an opportunity for change By Linda Nordling,Nature magazine | November 2020

QUOTE OF THE DAY "Ending hunger requires much more than pulling more food from the ground; it involves grappling with entrenched hierarchies of power." Raj Patel, professor of public affairs at the University of Texas at Austin and member of the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems

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