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World Telecommunication and Information Society Day is an annual celebration on May 17th. To raise awareness for this important topic, Elsevier presents a curated list of publicly available journal articles and book chapters to help advance #SDG9 and #SDG10 research.

Agriculture faces the increasing demands of a growing global population amid simultaneous challenges to soils from climate change and human-induced contamination. Cover plants are vital in sustainable agriculture, contributing to soil health improvement, erosion prevention, and enhanced climate resilience, but their role in contaminant management is underexplored. Herein we review the utilization of cover plants for remediating contaminants such as metals, organic pollutants, nitrate, antibiotics, antimicrobial resistance genes, plastics, and salts.

This study identified over 2,000 proteins in cerebrospinal fluid that change at different stages before Alzheimer's symptoms appear, revealing key biological processes involved in the disease. Using machine learning, the researchers developed highly accurate models to predict Alzheimer's biomarker status, clinical diagnosis, and future disease progression.

Sex refers to biological traits, while gender involves socially constructed roles and behaviors. Globally, women face disparities in access to kidney transplants, and outcomes, driven by sociocultural and systemic factors. Females have a higher prevalence of kidney disease, start dialysis at lower glomerular filtration rates, and receive lower dialysis doses than males. Fewer females are refered for kidney transplants than males, and females have lower rates of preemptive transplantation than males.