When it comes to the Moon, everyone wants the same things. Not in the sense of having shared goals, but in the sense that all players target the same strategic sites—state agencies and the private sector alike. That's because, ...
Space Exploration
Dec 10, 2020
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Australia has made substantial investments in the development of quantum technologies.
Quantum Physics
Dec 10, 2020
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Climate change is accelerating shrub growth across many northern regions, which has important consequences for people and wildlife there.
Environment
Dec 10, 2020
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Understanding how genes work and how they interact with one another is a major goal of biology. This poses huge challenges in terms of both methods and the sheer numbers of experiments required. Recent advances have transformed ...
Biotechnology
Dec 10, 2020
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A team of researchers at the University of Bayreuth in Germany has found that microplastics exposed to several weeks of weather are more easily absorbed by mouse cells than fresh microplastics. In their paper published in ...
Titanium dioxide (TiO2) has considerable power as a photocatalyst—a material that captures light energy to accelerate chemical reactions that are otherwise difficult to achieve. One of its most promising applications is ...
Materials Science
Dec 10, 2020
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Launched less than three weeks ago, the Copernicus Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite has not only returned its first data, but results also show that it is functioning far better than expected. Thanks to its new, sophisticated, ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 10, 2020
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With Canada moving to welcome more immigrants, and communities hoping to retain these new workers rather than see them move on, a Western University study reports that the age of a family's eldest child is a key factor.
Social Sciences
Dec 10, 2020
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In today's digital age, more consumer data is being collected than ever before. In turn, consumers are bombarded with advertising that misses the mark for identifying the "right" message to the "right" customer, and fails ...
Economics & Business
Dec 10, 2020
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Researchers from the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) at the University of Colorado Boulder are diving into the dusty environment that surrounds the sun—a search that could help to reveal how planets ...
Astronomy
Dec 10, 2020
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