"Time flies," "time waits for no one," "as time goes on": The way we speak about time tends to strongly imply that the passage of time is some sort of real process that happens out there in the world. We inhabit the present ...
Social Sciences
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Under the influence of global warming, the Arctic is transitioning from a state dominated by multi-year thick ice to a "New Arctic" characterized predominantly by first-year thin ice. This younger ice is more fragile and ...
Earth Sciences
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Have you ever tried bleaching sunscreen stains on clothing, only to be left with bright red results? Professor Clare Mahon, from the Durham University Department of Chemistry, did just this and the scarlet staining instantly ...
Analytical Chemistry
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A systematic review of academic research in the International Journal of Web Based Communities has looked at the relationship between the leading online video content sites and its recommendation system and how this might ...
Political science
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Gut microbes are essential partners that help digest food, produce vitamins and train the immune system. They can also pass on behavioral traits to their host's offspring, at least in mice. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute ...
When an intense laser pulse hits a stationary electron, it performs a trembling motion at the frequency of the light field. However, this motion dies down after the pulse, and the electron comes to rest again at its original ...
Optics & Photonics
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Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer a mere technological tool. It has already evolved into a new ideology—a system of values and beliefs that is shaping how society understands progress, sustainability, and even humanity ...
Social Sciences
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A pulse of light sets the tempo in the material. Atoms in a crystalline sheet just a few atoms thick begin to move—not randomly, but in a coordinated rhythm, twisting and untwisting in sync like dancers following a beat.
Condensed Matter
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By fusing enzyme fragments to antibodies, researchers from the Institute of Science Tokyo, in Japan, developed an innovative enzyme switch called "Switchbody," which is activated when bound to its target antigen. Switchbody ...
Biochemistry
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Agriculture, wastewater, dams, the runoff of fine sediments from croplands and, last but not least, climate change with its rising temperatures are changing the quality and structure of freshwater ecosystems, especially rivers. ...
Ecology
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