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Reducing tariffs on imported goods is meant to remove trade barriers, but it doesn't seem to be helping the seafood industry, which has experienced the same -- if not more -- import rejections and notifications at borders, according to research guided by an agricultural economist. The study, which explored tariff and nontariff barriers in the seafood trade, also documented the reasons for products held at the borders.

Researchers have used a combination of automated text analysis and the 'robot scientist' Eve to semi-automate the process of reproducing research results. The problem of lack of reproducibility is one of the biggest crises facing modern science.

More energetic commercials are likely to be tuned in more or avoided less by viewers, according a new study.

The concept of ecosystem services allows researchers to quantify the benefits that nature contributes to people into monetary units. A new study suggests that trees provide greater economic value when used to regulate climate and air quality than the value they produce as wood products, food crops, and Christmas trees.