COVID-19: The perils of a 'just enough, just in time' food system
Toilet paper shortages, profiteering from hand sanitizer and empty shelves in grocery stores.
Toilet paper shortages, profiteering from hand sanitizer and empty shelves in grocery stores.
Economics & Business
Mar 17, 2020
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Norway's statistical agency says it has recorded the lowest number of newborns since it started counting in the 19th century, with the country's family minister acknowledging that it is a problem.
Social Sciences
Mar 7, 2019
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These days, Moore's Law is not so much a scientific law as an aspiration. The notion that there is a doubling every year of the number of components that can be squeezed on to the same area of integrated circuitry was first ...
Electronics & Semiconductors
Dec 6, 2018
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Falling auto sales in August slowed US retail spending, but a higher-than-originally reported figure for July meant the overall pace was well above 2017, the government said Friday.
Automotive
Sep 14, 2018
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Large fish species are rapidly declining around Australia, according to the first continental diver census of shallow reef fish. Contrary to years of sustainability reports, our study indicates that excessive fishing pressure ...
Ecology
Jun 7, 2018
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Researchers in Germany have documented a steep decline in flying insects at dozens of nature reserves in the past three decades, and agricultural pesticides may be to blame, said a study Wednesday.
Ecology
Oct 18, 2017
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The number of rhinos killed for their horns by poachers in South Africa dipped slightly in the first half of this year, but more than 500 were still slaughtered, the government announced Monday.
Ecology
Jul 24, 2017
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"End-point bias" is a well-known psychological tendency to interpret a recent short-term fluctuation as a reversal of a long-term trend. A study published in Environment Communication has concluded that end-point bias can ...
Environment
Dec 7, 2016
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If you thought your phone bill was expensive, UK telecoms regulator Ofcom just announced an inflation-busting price hike that will triple the licence fees paid by UK mobile network operating companies. The likes of EE, O2, ...
Telecom
Oct 2, 2015
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CryoSat has delivered this year's map of autumn sea-ice thickness in the Arctic, revealing a small decrease in ice volume. In a new phase for ESA's ice mission, the measurements can now also be used to help vessels navigate ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 15, 2014
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