From the energy that goes into making smartphones to the fact that even emails create carbon emissions, the world's internet addiction comes with costs to the climate.
Environment
Oct 11, 2021
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A new analysis suggests that online searches could help correct people's predisposed belief in misinformation, but that searching may still promote negative feelings about a targeted minority group, despite correction of ...
Social Sciences
Sep 22, 2021
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At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, school closures meant more than 90% of the world's learners had to study virtually or from home. The internet, already an invaluable educational tool, has therefore become even more ...
Education
Aug 26, 2021
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The death toll from devastating floods across parts of western Germany and Belgium rose above 90 on Friday, as the search continued for hundreds of people still unaccounted for.
Environment
Jul 16, 2021
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Do firms respond to tougher competition by searching for completely new technological solutions (exploration), or do they work to defend their position by improving current technologies (exploitation)?
Economics & Business
Jun 2, 2021
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People around the world have been spending more time at home since the start of 2020. For many of these people, this seemed like the perfect opportunity to get a pet.
Veterinary medicine
Jun 2, 2021
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Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have been quantifying how different batches of mesenchymal stem cells respond to the mechanical stiffness of their environments. They focused on how certain proteins were "localized" ...
Biotechnology
May 24, 2021
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Limiting internet searches for investors increases stock market crash risk by 19%, a new study has found.
Economics & Business
Apr 28, 2021
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A team of researchers from the Max Planck Institutes of Developmental Biology in Tübingen and the Max Planck Computing and Data Facility in Garching develops new search capabilities that will allow to compare the biochemical ...
Biotechnology
Apr 12, 2021
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The standard model of particle physics encapsulates our current knowledge of elementary particles and their interactions. The standard model is not complete; for example, it does not describe observations such as gravity, ...
General Physics
Apr 5, 2021
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