Modularity is taking off in more ways than one in space exploration. The design of the upcoming "Lunar Gateway" space station is supposed to be modular, with different modules being supplied by different organizations. In ...
Space Exploration
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Canada's aging population, combined with increased life expectancy, pose a real challenge for our pension plans. Current and future retirees risk seeing some of their sources of income decline or, at best, stagnate.
Economics & Business
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A research group led by Professor Emeritus Takuji Hoshino of Okayama University of Science (OUS) has successfully developed a new wine grape variety named "Muscat Shiragai," created by crossing the wild species Shiraga grape—native ...
Agriculture
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Antibody-based drugs often become too thick to be injected at high concentrations. Now, new research can explain why this happens—knowledge that could eventually lead to easily injectable medications.
Biochemistry
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Surveillance pricing has dominated headlines recently. Delta Air Lines' announcement that it will use artificial intelligence to set individualized ticket prices has led to widespread concerns about companies using personal ...
Economics & Business
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As millions of student loan borrowers settle into the school year, many are stressed about how they'll pay for their degrees. These students may find that the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the big tax and spending bill that ...
Economics & Business
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As the seasons turn and the nights draw in, the countryside of the British Isles seems alive with omens: an owl's screech, or a bat above the hedgerows.
Plants & Animals
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The spate of public demonstrations against unemployment, corruption and low quality of life around the world is striking because of who is leading them. Young people have used social media platforms such as Facebook, TikTok, ...
Political science
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It's great to see old astronomical observations come to light. Not only can these confirm or refute what's known about historic astronomical events, but they can describe what early observers actually saw.
Astronomy
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When Storm Amy battered the Scottish Highlands in early October, it tore through a salmon farm's sea pens, releasing around 75,000 fish into open water in Loch Linnhe. The scale of the escape is alarming. It comes at a time ...
Ecology
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