Every year, treated wastewater sludge called "biosolids" is recycled and spread over agricultural land. My recent research discovered this practice dumps thousands of tonnes of microplastics into farmlands around the world. ...
Environment
Jun 11, 2020
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Working from home during COVID-19 appeared to cost us little.
Economics & Business
Jun 11, 2020
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Most of us understand the critical importance of monitoring the spread of diseases. And it is as important for plant diseases as it is for humans.
Ecology
Jun 11, 2020
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To help labs characterize the toughness of steel, a new software package allows analysis of instrumented Charpy tests, or Charpy tests augmented with strain gauges, in compliance with standards from ASTM and ISO. The NIST ...
Materials Science
Jun 11, 2020
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Could the COVID-19 pandemic spell the end of globalisation and migration?
Social Sciences
Jun 11, 2020
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How much plastic do we really use, and can we live without it? These are among the questions addressed by a tool that calculates the scale and extent of household plastic use, developed by the University of Exeter Business ...
Environment
Jun 11, 2020
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Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory have discovered that skyrmions— a type of quasiparticle with properties that could lead to the next generation of data storage and transfer— reproduce by splitting ...
Nanophysics
Jun 11, 2020
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The Sun Belt's large metro areas are growing much faster than those elsewhere in the United States, and they are adding more young and old residents than the rest of the nation, according to a new white paper from Rice University's ...
Social Sciences
Jun 11, 2020
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Scientists from the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) examined the fate of the young star V1298 Tau and its four orbiting exoplanets. The results show that these recently born planets are roasted by the intense ...
Astronomy
Jun 11, 2020
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In times of crisis, conspiracy theories can spread as fast as a virus.
Social Sciences
Jun 11, 2020
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