Should Farm Fields Be Used for Crops or Solar? MSU Research Suggests Both
Michigan State UniversityShould farm fields be used for crops or solar? MSU research suggests both
Should farm fields be used for crops or solar? MSU research suggests both
Farmers apply nitrogen fertilizers to crops to boost yields, feeding more people and livestock. But when there’s more fertilizer than the crop can take up, some of the excess can be converted into gaseous forms, including nitrous oxide, a greenhouse gas that traps nearly 300 times as much heat in the atmosphere as carbon dioxide. About 70% of human-caused nitrous oxide comes from agricultural soils, so it’s vital to find ways to curb those emissions.
The University of West Florida placed second in the 2024 CAE-CD Community Outreach Award Competition, which is given by the National Centers of Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity Community to a CAE-Cyber Defense designated institution.
Researchers at Shanghai Jiao Tong University have developed CHASER, a blockchain-based incentive system that transforms mobile crowdsensing by leveraging automated smart contracts and advanced encryption to deliver fair compensation, robust data security, and high efficiency, dramatically boosting user participation and reliability.
Researchers examined teeth and skulls of 99 extinct crocodylomorph species and 20 living crocodylian species to reconstruct the dietary ecology of crocodylomorphs to identify characteristics that helped some groups persist through two mass extinctions.
New research debuts a powerful remote-sensing dataset that for the first time, informs the timing and magnitude of dust deposition and impacts on snowmelt rates across the Colorado Basin, in real time. The study’s insights could improve forecasting and water allocation for a system under extreme pressure from changing climate and populations.
MSU to create first-of-its-kind database for analyzing human remains
UNLV-led study in Nature Neuroscience expands our understanding of the disease linked with autism, opening possible new diagnostic and preventative approaches.