While the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic are still unclear, it is certain that they are a profound shock to the systems underpinning contemporary life.
Social Sciences
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Capturing frames of photosynthesis and other molecular gymnastics in action means reaching a shutter speed that makes fast look very, very slow—so fast that physicists are just now working their way up to it.
Optics & Photonics
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Knife crime hit a record high in England and Wales before the COVID-19 lockdown came into place—with police reporting 46,265 cases for the year to March. The recent report by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said ...
Social Sciences
Aug 5, 2020
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Electricity market data can play a vital role in measuring the impact of COVID-19 and lockdown policies on GDP, according to a new study.
Economics & Business
Aug 5, 2020
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A new study which provides a global estimate of rock cover on the Earth's glaciers has revealed that the expanse of rock debris on glaciers, a factor that has been ignored in models of glacier melt and sea level rise, could ...
Earth Sciences
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A sandwich of materials tested by Sandia National Laboratories is being manufactured into N95-like respirators that could be used in local medical facilities. The project originated from the urgent need for personal protective ...
Materials Science
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Launched at Case Western Reserve University this summer, the open-source Occupy Archive offers citizens and scholars a chance to revisit the multi-faceted movement—and recognize its roots in contemporary calls for reform ...
Social Sciences
Aug 5, 2020
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During the International Conference on High-Energy Physics (ICHEP 2020), the ATLAS collaboration presented the first observation of photon collisions producing pairs of W bosons, elementary particles that carry the weak force, ...
General Physics
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As a global center for petrochemical manufacturing, Houston, Texas, experiences some of the worst air quality in the country, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Evidence suggests that air pollution disproportionately ...
Environment
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The food and nutrient security of billions of people worldwide depend on fish being treated as a domestic public health asset instead of a commodity.
Ecology
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