Nanobubbles are extremely small (i.e., nanoscopic) gaseous cavities that some physicists observed in aqueous solutions, typically after specific substances were dissolved in them. While some studies reported the observation ...
Jen, a student I taught early in my career, stood head-and-shoulders above her peers academically. I learned she had started off as an engineering major but switched over to psychology. I was surprised and curious.
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A team of researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and Stony Brook University have devised a new quantum algorithm to compute the lowest energies of molecules at specific configurations ...
Quantum Physics
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The technology industry's years-long effort to diversify its workforce remains slow-moving and disjointed, according to Wiley's latest "Diversity in Tech: U.S. 2022" report, released today following a survey of more than ...
Social Sciences
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The city of Copenhagen, often celebrated as one of the world's greenest for its cycling culture and other initiatives, recently defaulted on its pledge to become carbon-neutral by 2025. This early failure in the global race ...
Environment
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Australia last week moved to tackle the climate crisis when federal parliament passed Labor's climate bill. But the new law is just the first step. Over the next eight years to 2030, we must get on a steep trajectory of emissions ...
Environment
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Hubris syndrome, a personality disorder describing successful political leaders being spoiled by their sustained experience of excessive power, received attention with the rise of populism. Marks of the syndrome can be traced ...
Social Sciences
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A pair of researchers, one with Swansea University, the other with Oxford University, has taken a new look at the Gough map and have found what might be the lost islands of ancient Welsh folklore. In their paper published ...
Biomedical engineers and medical researchers at UNSW Sydney have independently made discoveries about embryonic blood stem cell creation that could one day eliminate the need for blood stem cell donors.
Cell & Microbiology
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For decades, scientists have been trying to solve a vexing problem regarding the weather in outer space: At unpredictable times, high-energy particles bombard the Earth and objects outside the Earth's atmosphere with radiation ...
Space Exploration
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