An infectious disease striking a large city may seem like a disastrous scenario -- millions of people sharing apartment buildings, crammed on buses and trains and brushing past one another on crowded sidewalks.
Computer Sciences
Jun 2, 2009
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Using novel data sets and computing systems, researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are simulating how climate change affects the safety and security of the country. This research can help ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 18, 2021
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(Phys.org)—New technology, a desire to produce domestic energy, and concerns over climate change have spurred a rapid increase in oil and natural gas, bioenergy, wind, solar and geothermal energy production. These developments ...
Environment
Sep 28, 2012
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Researchers at QUT have developed a new tool to measure customer aggression within the retail and services sectors.
Social Sciences
Apr 17, 2023
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More than 50 percent of today's population lives in cities. According to the United Nations Development Programme, that number is predicted to rise to 70 percent by 2050. Growing urbanization increases the overall temperature ...
Environment
Jun 1, 2016
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Efforts to combat climate change tend to focus on supply-side changes, such as shifting to renewable or cleaner energy. In a Special Issue in the Energy Efficiency Journal that follows the IPCC Special Report on Global Warming ...
Environment
Oct 25, 2018
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In a world of changing weather and rainfall patterns, engineers face challenges when designing stormwater management systems.
Earth Sciences
Apr 23, 2012
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While the coronavirus continues to infect people around the world, researchers at the University of Missouri have identified a specific protein inside the human body that plays a critical role in how the virus spreads from ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 1, 2023
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Over the last decade, severe outbreaks of bacterial canker have caused huge economic losses for kiwi growers, especially in Italy, New Zealand, and China, which are among the largest producers. Bacterial canker is caused ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Jun 25, 2021
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Babies in prams can be exposed to up to 60 percent more pollution than their parents, causing potential damage to their frontal lobe and impacting on their cognitive abilities and brain development.
Environment
Aug 14, 2018
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