Many travellers are members of multiple loyalty programmes, and the role of these programmes is often insignificant when choosing between different hotels, a new study from the University of Eastern Finland shows. Tourists ...
Economics & Business
Feb 20, 2019
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Technology has made a tremendous difference in the world, in areas as diverse as health and education, and pretty much everything in between.
Ecology
Feb 18, 2019
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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has picked Danish economist and environmentalist Inger Andersen to be the new UN environment chief, turning the page on a scandal over expenses that rocked the UN agency, according to ...
Environment
Feb 15, 2019
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Integrating graphene sheets into silicon photonics could form the basis for next-generation data communications. Researchers from the Graphene Flagship initiative have pushed the technology closer to application by demonstrating ...
Nanophysics
Jan 11, 2019
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As ESA's ΙΈ-week continues to provoke and inspire participants on new ways of using Earth observation for monitoring our world to benefit the citizens of today and of the future, it is clear that artificial intelligence is ...
Machine learning & AI
Nov 15, 2018
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More than a billion Indians have uploaded their biometric details to a national database in exchange for a unique 12-digit ID that authorities say will transform how citizens interact with government and propel the world's ...
Internet
Sep 26, 2018
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As part of ESA's continuing commitment to realise cutting-edge satellite missions to advance scientific understanding of our planet and to show how new technologies can be used in space, three new ideas have been chosen to ...
Space Exploration
Sep 26, 2018
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In materials science, the surface wettability of a biomaterial can be measured using the surface water contact angle as an important characterization of its hydrophilicity or hydrophobicity. The technique has attracted remarkable ...
A simulator that comes complete with a virtual explosion could help the operators of chemical processing plants β and other industrial facilities β learn to detect attacks by hackers bent on causing mayhem. The simulator ...
Security
Aug 24, 2018
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When people hear the word shed, they may think about a rickety wooden building at the bottom of a garden crawling with spiders, filled with old paint tins, a lawnmower and out-of-date weedkiller. It has also been associated ...
Social Sciences
Aug 16, 2018
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