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Analysis from Dr Habtamu Beshir and Prof Eleonora Fichera highlights reductions in pollution and improvements to health brought about by LEZ and ULEZ.

Lab-grown algal symbionts designed to be heat-tolerant could enhance heat resistance in corals, helping them resist and recover faster from bleaching.

Artificial neural networks could provide a solution to many modern problems including medical diagnosis, face identification systems and data mining. However, typical physical neural networks require a large amount of data to be stored in memory.

Researchers have engineered a strain of E. coli that can digest polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastics and transform them into adipic acid – a useful feedstock for nylon materials, drugs and fragrances.

Participants in the research were between 7-10% less likely to purchase meat products if they came with bold warning labels, similar to the kind used in cigarette packaging.

The planet’s demand for salt comes at a cost to the environment and human health, according to a new scientific review. The paper revealed that human activities are making Earth saltier, which could pose an “existential threat”.

A team of animal scientists from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is set to deliver a potential game changer for subsistence farmers in Tanzania: cows that produce up to 20 times the milk of indigenous breeds.

The search is on worldwide to find ways to extract carbon dioxide from the air or from power plant exhaust and then make it into something useful. One of the more promising ideas is to make it into a stable fuel that can replace fossil fuels.

An unexpected finding from researchers has shown that in certain conditions, at the interface where water meets air, light can make water evaporate without the need for heat.

In efforts to improve public health, researchers have investigated the complex microbial ecosystems found in pit latrines, using genetic tools to better understand sanitation technologies.