Despite efforts to encourage more women to enter science, Chemistry World has reported that there are still too few women progressing to senior positions in academia.
Reasons why include a lack of encouragement, an unconscious bias towards men and a ‘macho’ scientific culture.
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Scientists in Argentina have found a new way to tackle global warming – by capturing cows’ burps.
Cows have had a bad press in the fight against climate change, being accused of producing large amounts of methane when digesting food. But the scientists in Argentina have found a new, yet low-tech, way of analysing the cows’ emissions.
They’re collecting cows’ burps, by connecting the cow’s stomach to a bright red tank strapped to its back.
Apparently they’ve studied at least ten cows and, according to Guillermo Berra, a researcher at the National Institute of Agricultural Technology, their research shows that, ‘thirty percent of Argentina’s (total greenhouse) emissions could be generated by cows.’
Scientists are now thinking of putting cows on diets of alfalfa and clover to make them more environmentally friendly.
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