The definition of a company with a “non-profit character” can affect its value creation and value capital
Strategic business model decisions and a typology of social business models. Source: Journal for Strategic Entrepreneurship (2024). DOI: 10.1002/sej.1502 Companies that aim to create both...
New book explores the connections between food and urban spaces
The cover of Magical Foodscape: A guide to redesigning cities around culture, food and the built environment.. Source: Shen X (2024) Magical Foodscape: A Guide...
Scientists develop computer program that “paints” the structure of molecules in the style of a famous Dutch artist
An example of the visual, Mondrian output of a computer program for a particular molecule. Image credit: Prof. Mathias O Senge, Trinity College Dublin. Scientists...
New research shows how galaxies avoid early death
An artist’s impression of bipolar jets of gas emanating from a supermassive black hole at the centre of a galaxy. Image credit: ESA/Hubble, L. Calçada...
Digging deep – Discovering the value of the soil microbiome
Comparison of cultivated and non-cultivated plots. Photo credit: PIRSA SARDI Researchers in southern Australia are intensively studying the history of soil biology in their state...
Combining community values and science is key to ecosystem restoration, study shows
Yaks and tents on an autumn pasture on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in northwest China. Photo credit: Yuqiu Li One of the world’s largest ecosystem restoration...
Investigations into the polysomatism of antigorite under pressure
The crystal structure of antigorite with m=17. The number of tetrahedra within one wavelength along the a-axis represents the m-value. Orange: Mg, Blue: Si, Red:...
Study suggests that song melodies have become simpler since 1950
Image credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The complexity of the melodies of the most popular songs in the US – according to the Billboard year-end singles...
UV radiation leads to blockages of the ribosomes and thus to the early death of skin cells
Damage from UV radiation can force an injured cell to choose between survival and cellular suicide. New research from Rachel Green’s lab shows that DNA...
Governor Pritzker signs federal and state agreement to protect Lake Michigan from invasive carp
Photo credit: Mike Kit from Pexels After months of back and forth, officials announced on July 1 that Illinois had signed a partnership agreement that...
