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3 weeks ago | 
lw-heute.de | Martin Himmelmann |Lisa Frohlich |Felix Richter
Praxisnahe Wege für klimaresiliente Landwirtschaft
Wie kann Landwirtschaft unter zunehmenden Wetterextremen, abnehmender Bodenqualität und steigendem gesellschaftlichen Anspruch ökologisch wie ökonomisch tragfähig bleiben? Dieser Leitfrage widmete sich die Fachinformationsveranstaltung „Maßnahmen für eine klimaresiliente Landwirtschaft in Hessen“ Mitte Mai auf Schloss Rauischholzhausen.
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3 weeks ago | 
statista.com | Felix Richter
The second estimate of Q1 GDP, published by the Bureau of Economic Analysis last week, confirmed that the U.S. gross domestic product declined in the first three months of 2025, albeit at a slightly slower pace than previously estimated.
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4 weeks ago | 
statista.com | Felix Richter
As the world observes World No Tobacco Day on May 31, we’re taking a look at smoking prevalence in selected countries around the world, with a special focus on Asia and its astonishing gender gap in tobacco use. While Indonesia and China for example, are among the countries with the highest prevalence of tobacco smoking among the male population at 73 percent and 44 percent, respectively, the smoking rate among women in both countries is among the lowest in the world at 1.8 and 1.4 percent.
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1 month ago | 
statista.com | Felix Richter
Housing affordability in the United States has taken a sharp turn for the worse in recent years, as home prices surged to historical highs during and after the pandemic and mortgage rates climbed to levels last seen in the early 2000s, as the Fed was forced to raise interest rates to rein in inflation.
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1 month ago | 
statista.com | Felix Richter
The global apparel market is a trillion-dollar industry that employs tens of millions of workers around the world. But despite the industry’s strong growth over the past two decades, it remains heavily skewed towards the top of the value chain.
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1 month ago | 
intellinews.com | Felix Richter
VE Day, or Victory in Europe Day, is celebrated on May 8 each year to mark the formal end of World War II in Europe, reports Statista.
On this day in 1945, Allied forces accepted the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany, bringing nearly six years of brutal conflict in Europe to a close. The day is commemorated to honor the courage and sacrifice of those who fought and died during the war, and to celebrate the return of peace to the continent.
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2 months ago | 
statista.com | Felix Richter
Since the public release of ChatGPT in late 2022, generative AI tools have rapidly gained popularity as they are the most obvious, consumer-facing application and demonstration of AI's capabilities. And yet, the actual use of AI-powered chatbots such as ChatGPT is still surprisingly low, considering the buzz around them.
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2 months ago | 
nature.com | Felix Richter
Iron metabolism is crucial for cellular and organismal homeostasis. Cells require iron for many cellular processes including energy production, gene regulation and replication. Thus, iron availability is tightly regulated by the balance between iron uptake, release and storage. Ferritin is essential for storing iron safely within cells, such that global deletion of the ferritin heavy chain (Fth) in mice is embryonically lethal.
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2 months ago | 
statista.com | Felix Richter
One of the stated goals of the Trump administration’s tariff offensive is to bring back manufacturing jobs to the United States. But is that possible or even desirable in this day and age, when the vast majority of American workers have long moved on from manual labor towards knowledge-based jobs in the service sector?
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2 months ago | 
statista.com | Felix Richter
Nothing beats the convenience of having decades worth of music at your disposal at any time, any place, all at a monthly fee equivalent to the price of a single album. Considering this, the unstoppable rise of Spotify and other streaming services doesn’t come as surprise. What is a bit surprising is the pace at which people abandoned physical music.
