A week ago the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) delivered to massive media coverage an unsettling message – climate change is real, humans are the main cause of it, and unless we stop the warming of the ...
Environment
Oct 10, 2013
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(GPEARI, Portugal) -- Cooperation, despite being now considered the third force of evolution, just behind mutation and natural selection, is difficult to explain in the context of an evolutionary process based on competition ...
General Physics
Feb 6, 2009
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When some materials are cooled to a certain temperature, they lose electric resistance, becoming superconductors.
Superconductivity
Aug 18, 2022
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A superconductor that works at room temperature was long thought impossible, but scientists at USC may have discovered a family of materials that could make it reality.
Superconductivity
Feb 25, 2015
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Researchers at Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, Christian-Albrechts-Universitat zu Kiel and Santa Barbara have made the first experimental breakthrough in quantum physics: Their studies on the "pairing behavior" of electrons have ...
Superconductivity
Dec 1, 2010
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Germans arrive at every appointment 5 hours before the scheduled time, all Indians are called Ranjid and have a red mark on their foreheads, the Japanese bow 10,000 times a day, and Americans all speak with chewing gum in ...
Social Sciences
Sep 23, 2016
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The most unambiguous data to date on the elusive 113th atomic element has been obtained by researchers at the RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-based Science (RNC). A chain of six consecutive alpha decays, produced in ...
Condensed Matter
Sep 26, 2012
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Discovered more than 100 years ago, superconductivity continues to captivate scientists who seek to develop components for highly efficient energy transmission, ultrafast electronics or quantum bits for next-generation computation. ...
Superconductivity
Aug 16, 2019
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Human decision-making and the interplay of individual and group dynamics is incredibly complex. Unfortunately, our behavior can lead to detrimental phenomena, such as the depletion of common sources.
Mathematics
Sep 30, 2022
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Cooperative behaviour is not an instinctive impulse or deliberate choice, but a learning process. Researchers of CWI and LUISS Guido Carli in Rome showed in an experiment that people living in a low-trust society intuitively ...
Social Sciences
Jul 8, 2015
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