Heat may spark world food crisis

Half the world's population could face food crisis by 2100 as soaring temperatures cripple staple crops, scientists warn.

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Eat it or lose it - why centuries of crop diversity are at risk

Centuries of crop diversity are at risk of being lost forever as farmers turn to just a few modern, high yielding varieties.

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Our writers talk back

Some of the previous contributors to the Green Room respond to readers' questions and comments.

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Feilden's blog

Ground-breaking new technique in stem cell science

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Zimbabwe troops 'eat elephants'

A Zimbabwean wildlife campaigner tells the BBC that soldiers are being given elephant meat to eat, as the economic crisis deepens.

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Venomous mammal caught on camera

Rare footage of one of the world's most strange and elusive mammals is captured by scientists.

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Black holes 'preceded galaxies'

Astronomers believe they have solved a cosmic chicken-and-egg question: what came first - black holes or galaxies?

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Canadians claim South Pole record

A trio of Canadians claim a new record for the fastest trek across Antarctica to the South Pole.

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Animal matters

Scotland's debate over tests on primates

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First flight of algae-fuelled jet

Continental Airlines is the latest to test fly a jet biofuel, this time with a product derived partially from algae.

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Everest trip helps critically ill

Blood oxygen levels recorded on a trip by medics to Everest could help the treatment of critically ill patients.

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Beagle hunter

On a mission to find the most famous ship of science

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Mummy of female pharaoh uncovered

Egyptologists find remains of a mummy thought to belong to a queen who ruled 4,300 years ago, Egypt's antiquities chief announced.

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A deep-sea fish caught in the Pacific has mirrors for eyes

A deep-sea fish caught in the Pacific has eyes which use mirrors as well as lenses, scientists discover.

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Poetry or science?

Is romantic love just a chemical cocktail?

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Mosquitoes make sweet love music

Sexy songs sung by mosquitoes in courtship could be key to curbing the spread of dengue fever, say scientists.

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Earth Watch

Why it is hard to predict sudden environmental crises

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Body repair 'could be ramped up'

A combination of drugs could trick the body into sending its repair mechanisms into overdrive, say scientists.

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US vows 'huge' marine protection

The US is to establish "the largest area of protected sea in the world", banning fishing and mining, around its Pacific islands.

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Tech fair offers greener vision

Analysts at the Consumer Electronics Show say green credentials of tech products will become critical to success.

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'Wolfman' returns

Explorer Jim McNeill tracks down Arctic wolves

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China alert over bird flu death

Chinese authorities shut down and clean poultry markets in Hebei province, after the first human death in nearly a year.

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Panda bites his third tourist in two years at Beijing zoo

A panda at Beijing zoo bites a man for the third time in two years.

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Baby Jupiter's huge weight gain

The planet Jupiter must have gained mass fast during its infancy, according to astronomers.

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Holes give edge to new armour

Scientists from the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) have devised ultra-hard vehicle armour to protect military personnel.

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Statistical Mechanics:

ArXiv Statistical Mechanics

Recent papers and preprints in Statistical Mechanics.

http://arxiv.org/list/cond-mat.stat-mech/recent

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Boltzmann Transport Equation

A paper by Uri Lachish studying transport phenomena: currents and transport coefficients; thermally induced diffusion.

http://urila.tripod.com/Boltzmann.htm

Center for Statistical Mechanics and Mathematical Physics

An interdisciplinary center at Virginia Tech. Staff and research interests.

http://www.mathphys.vt.edu/

Entropy

Online journal intended for collegiate audiences. Provides links to web-based articles as well as some "basic" lessons on entropy.

http://www.mdpi.org/entropy/

History of Statistical Physics

A short review by D. Flamm of the history of statistical physics.

http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/9803005

Introduction to Macromolecular Simulation

Notes by Peter J. Steinbach on the application of statistical mechanics to the structure and dynamics of biomolecules.

http://cmm.info.nih.gov/intro_simulation/

King's College London

Statistical Mechanics and Quantum Probability Group. Staff and preprints.

http://www.mth.kcl.ac.uk/research/statphys/

Molecular Dynamics Simulator

Java applets to simulate motion of molecules under different potentials.

http://polymer.bu.edu/wamnet.html

Phase transitions on lattices

Phase transitions and solitons in magnetics, site and continuum percolations with interactive Java applets and comments.

http://ibiblio.org/e-notes/Perc/contents.htm

Philosophy of Statistical Mechanics

Entry in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy with bibliography and links.

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/statphys-statmech/

Statistical Mechanics

Lecture notes by Jochen Rau from a course on "Transport Theory" taught at Dresden University.

http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/9805024