With an area of 2.5 million square kilometers and an altitude that can exceed 4,500 meters, the Tibetan Plateau is the largest and highest plateau on Earth. Although its formation over the past 65 million years is broadly ...
Earth Sciences
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Humans aren't the only flightless creatures who have found a way to take to the sky to get around. Mites, some as tiny as the dot of this "i," zip around the tropical forest they call home by hitching rides on hummingbirds ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 1, 2021
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Early childhood education in England has undergone a 'leveling up' in the last two decades, according to research from Professor Edward Melhuish, and Dr. Julian Gardiner of University of Oxford's Department of Education.
Education
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At the peak of the pandemic, Italians got used to watching the press conferences of Giuseppe Conte, who was in his second term as Italian prime minster (from 5/9/2019 to 13/2/2021), to keep people posted on the evolution ...
Political science
Nov 1, 2021
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Many people do not know that human waste can be recycled to benefit the environment. After intense treatment, it can be applied to fields in the form of biosolids.
Agriculture
Nov 1, 2021
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Consumer-grade air cleaners that promise to reduce indoor levels of volatile organic compound (VOC) pollutants using chemical oxidation can be a source of VOCs themselves, according to a new study led by MIT researchers.
Environment
Nov 1, 2021
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In drought years and when marine heat waves warm the Pacific Ocean, late-migrating juvenile spring-run Chinook salmon of California's Central Valley are the ultimate survivors. They are among the few salmon that survive in ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 1, 2021
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The racial views of U.S. Black and white teenagers exhibit large gaps that align with partisanship among their parents, according to new research led by Stefanie Stantcheva, a Harvard professor of economics. The working paper, ...
Social Sciences
Nov 1, 2021
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With public pension funds managing $4 trillion nationally and essentially representing the retirement plans of 20 million U.S. workers, where that money is invested has a lot of ramifications.
Economics & Business
Nov 1, 2021
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Techniques used by online microfinance platforms to spur user involvement could be useful in helping organizations to persuade people to behave in ways that benefit both society and environment.
Economics & Business
Nov 1, 2021
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