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Cool roofs could have saved c250 heatwave deaths, claims UCL/Exeter study
Nearly 250 lives could have been prevented during London’s record 2018 hot summer if the capital had made wide use of reflective colour roofs, claims joint research from UCL and the University of Exe…
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Cool roofs could have saved c250 heatwave deaths, claims UCL/Exeter study
Nearly 250 lives could have been prevented during London’s record 2018 hot summer if the capital had made wide use of reflective colour roofs, claims joint research from UCL and the University of Exe…
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Food forensics: how AI can smell authentic olive oil
Extra virgin olive (EVO) oils are highly complex. Here, Prof Chiara Cordero discusses the application of an AI smelling machine to analyse, qualify, categorise, and authenticate olive oil and counter…
Comment And Analysis
Combatting microplastics with microscopy
Microscopy techniques are used to identify and characterise microplastics, but each has limitations, especially with small particles. Emerging methods such as holographic imaging and fluorescent dyes…
Interviews
In agro: field labs and farmer-led research
The Innovative Farmers not for profit network brings together farmers and growers with researchers to enable field trials (pun intended). A decade’s worth of on-farm trial results demonstrate farmer-…
