A team of scientists has warned that the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), designed to bring together environmental protection and socioeconomic development, are failing to protect biodiversity.
Environment
Jul 6, 2020
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An Albert Einstein "puzzle" has been solved thanks to a missing manuscript page emerging in a trove of his writings newly acquired by Jerusalem's Hebrew University, officials announced Wednesday.
General Physics
Mar 6, 2019
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1086
EPFL researchers have found that water molecules are 10,000 times more sensitive to ions than previously thought.
Materials Science
Apr 8, 2016
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2369
That holiday trip over the river and through the woods to grandmother's house could turn into nice little gift for automakers as they increasingly collect oodles and oodles of data about the driver.
Automotive
Dec 22, 2018
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Nearly 10 years after a "doomsday" seed vault opened on an Arctic island, some 50,000 new samples from seed collections around the world have been deposited in the world's largest repository built to safeguard against wars ...
Ecology
Feb 23, 2017
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2024
The Maps app in Apples' iOS 6 is clearly flawed, but some other features are pretty cool and useful.
Consumer & Gadgets
Oct 19, 2012
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Seven minutes of harrowing descent to the Red Planet is in the not-so-distant future for the agency's Mars 2020 mission.
Space Exploration
Jan 28, 2021
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Electrical resistance is a simple concept: Rather like friction slowing down an object rolling on a surface, resistance slows the flow of electrons through a conductive material. But two physicists have now found that electrons ...
Nanophysics
Feb 23, 2016
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2530
A chance discovery at the University of Aberdeen could shed new light on the Great Pyramid with museum staff uncovering a lost artifact—one of only three objects ever recovered from inside the Wonder of the Ancient World.
Archaeology
Dec 16, 2020
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Palorchestid marsupials, an extinct group of Australian megafauna, had strange bodies and lifestyles unlike any living species, according to a study released September 13, 2019 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Hazel ...
Archaeology
Sep 13, 2019
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