91¿´Æ¬

Feeding the world with climate-ready rice

More than half of the world’s population relies on rice – but as climate chaos takes hold, this lynchpin of global food security is under threat.

Understanding the Arctic

The Arctic covers 14.5 million square kilometers of the earth’s surface but we know relatively little about it. To understand its potential influence on climate change we need to be able to research all of it, from Sweden to Siberia.

New compound which kills antibiotic-resistant superbugs discovered

Replace soil with foam to solve global food security crisis, say Sheffield scientists

Specially developed foams could help avert a global food security crisis by replacing fast-degrading soils, according to scientists.

Study uncovers key step in cell protein production

The findings will help our understanding of some cancers and conditions such as motor neurone disease, which are linked to faults in protein production.