New tipping point prediction model offers insights to diminishing bee colonies
A new method to predict tipping points - the moment at which sudden change occurs in complex networked systems - may offer insights that prevent colony collapse disorder (CCD), a phenomenon in which the majority of worker bees in a colony disappear, threatening the agricultural economy at a global level.
Source: https://phys.org/news/2018-01-insights-diminishing-bee-colonies.html
Special paper can be erased and printed on multiple times
A team of researchers with Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing Tech University and Northwestern Polytechnical University, all in China, has developed a new type of paper that can be erased and printed on multiple times. In their paper published in the journal Nature Communications, the group explains how they made their paper, how well it works and the ways they are looking to improve it.
Source: https://phys.org/news/2018-01-special-paper-erased-multiple.html
Defanged regulations have big media licking their chops
The year 2017 ended with a flurry of news affecting all aspects of the media industry. A shift in net neutrality policy and Disney's planned purchase of several Fox assets capped a year that also witnessed the pending merger between Sinclair Broadcast Group and Tribune Media.
Source: https://phys.org/news/2018-01-defanged-big-media.html
Crying elephants and giggling rats – animals have feelings, too
Years ago, we believed that we weren't animals and that animals were here solely for our use. Indeed, a cow was just a walking burger, steak of Sunday roast, keeping itself fresh and tasty ready for when we were hungry.
Source: https://phys.org/news/2018-01-elephants-giggling-rats-animals.html
Between the lines: Tree rings hold clues about a river's past
Hydrologists are looking centuries into the past to better understand an increasingly uncertain water future.
Source: https://phys.org/news/2018-01-lines-tree-clues-river.html
Worldwide importance of honey bees for natural habitats captured in new report
An unprecedented study integrating data from around the globe has shown that honey bees are the world's most important single species of pollinator in natural ecosystems and a key contributor to natural ecosystem functions. The first quantitative analysis of its kind, led by biologists at the University of California San Diego, is published Jan. 10 in Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
Source: https://phys.org/news/2018-01-worldwide-importance-honey-bees-natural.html
Source: https://phys.org/
