Circular Economy frameworks have become central to debates and interventions that aim to reduce global resource use and environmental despoilment. As pathways to both systemic and micro-scale transformations, there remain ...
Economics & Business
Dec 13, 2021
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By growing just one crop species in a field at a time, monocultures enable farmers to use machinery, increasing the efficiency of activities like planting and harvesting. But despite supplying the lion's share of the world's ...
Agriculture
Dec 13, 2021
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Can your personality affect your job performance? It depends on the job, according to a new study by management and psychology researchers.
Economics & Business
Dec 13, 2021
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Tooth decay is a common and unfortunate problem for many of us, but two University of Otago studies show it is also an issue for other primates, as well as our fossil relatives and ancestors.
Evolution
Dec 13, 2021
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Ready to brave the cold? If you're like us, you haven't wasted an early clear sky morning to get out and see Comet C/2021 A1 Leonard before it heads southward. The coming days offer another early AM celestial sight: the Geminid ...
Space Exploration
Dec 13, 2021
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Two important patterns in education are true world-wide. First, females outperform males in most subjects, and boys do not outperform girls in high school math and physics. Second, more females than males enroll in higher ...
Education
Dec 13, 2021
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New Zealanders, like many of their developed country counterparts, have built up significant debts in recent decades. There are differing views, however, on whether this constitutes a problem.
Economics & Business
Dec 13, 2021
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The Mount Semeru crisis in Indonesia on Dec. 4 and 5 killed at least 43 people, with 13 people missing and at least 3,000 housing units damaged as of Dec. 9. Thousands of residents, especially the Lumajang Regency, East Jawa ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 13, 2021
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Sophisticated CT scanning of the cranium of a Queensland fish fossil has given new insights to explain how fish first left the water to invade land about 370 million years ago.
Evolution
Dec 13, 2021
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Many bats die at wind turbines when colliding with the spinning blades. Currently it is unclear whether all age cohorts or sexes are equally vulnerable. A comparison of age, sex and geographic origin of Nathusius' pipistrelles ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 13, 2021
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