As renewable energy technologies become more competitive than fossil fuels, they will play an even greater role in the energy mix of most countries. Roula Inglesi-Lotz and George Alex Thopil point out how the impact of the increasing role of renewable energies on electricity prices varies from one setting to another. It is therefore important for policymakers to have a good understanding of how the greater role of renewable energies in a country’s energy mix will affect electricity prices.
Is it possible to use science to create a model for social justice and the restitution of dignity? That’s what a multidisciplinary team at the University of Cape Town in South Africa did when they discovered unethically obtained skeletal remains of Khoi and San people in their archive. Victoria Gibbon describes how she and her team traced the skeletons’ origins and began a series of consultations and ceremonies with their living descendants.
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Renewable energy technologies will in the next two years be competitive on price with fossil fuels.
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Roula Inglesi-Lotz, University of Pretoria; George Alex Thopil, University of Pretoria
As the share of renewable energies in the energy mix rises, policymakers must understand how renewable energies can influence electricity prices.
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Victoria Gibbon, University of Cape Town
When the University of Cape Town discovered skeletons in its archive that had been unethically obtained and used, they set about restoring justice to the bones and the community they came from.
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Health + Medicine
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Emily Wong, Harvard Medical School ; Al Leslie, UCL; Mohlopheni Jackson Marakalala, UCL
Many of the most fundamental aspects of TB disease remain unknown. For example, after exposure to the organism that causes TB, why do only some people get infected and only some of those fall ill?
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Cameron Dockerill, University of Oxford
Hidden heart conditions, like rheumatic heart disease, can have deadly consequences if not treated properly – or not treated at all.
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Sonja Eliason, University of Cambridge; Bridget Alex, California State University, Long Beach
People caught and died from plague long before it caused major epidemics like the Black Death in the middle ages. Could what scientists call cultural resistance be what kept the disease under control?
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Ian Hamilton, University of York; Harry Sumnall, Liverpool John Moores University
NICE has concluded that more research is needed before it can recommend the use of cannabis based products for medicinal use.
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Politics + Society
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Justin Scott Schon, University of Florida; Elizabeth Baldwin, University of Arizona; Jennifer N. Brass, Indiana University; Lauren M. MacLean
Contrary to stereotypes of nepotism and corruption, African governments such as Ghana's work hard to respond to need over politics. They can mostly resist politics, but not entirely.
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Yohannes Gedamu, Georgia Gwinnett College
The prime minister may have won the Nobel Peace Prize but he has failed to quell the violence in his own backyard
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