Ciência e Sociedade

New climate models are zooming in on regional risks

More detailed climate models are helping researchers explore how climate change may affect particular regions and how human actions shape the risks ahead.

Open source tech helps farmers put more trust in digital tools

Researchers, farmers and tech companies are developing open-source tools to tackle crop disease, irrigation and patchy internet, making digital farming cheaper, more practical and easier for farmers to trust.

Hunting down the last cases of sleeping sickness

Sleeping sickness once killed tens of thousands of people every year. Now, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, EU-backed researchers are testing a simpler way to find and treat the last remaining cases and eliminate the disease for good.

What dogs can teach us about the origins of speech

Researchers are studying dogs’ ability to control and change their voices in the hope of shedding light on one of evolution’s biggest mysteries: the origins of human speech.