A bright 'sun-skirting' comet will grace southern skies this week—here's how to see it
Hot on the heels of a spectacular comet late last year, another celestial visitor is set to put on a show. And Southern Hemisphere observers have a ringside seat.
Hot on the heels of a spectacular comet late last year, another celestial visitor is set to put on a show. And Southern Hemisphere observers have a ringside seat.
Astronomy
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Development of cities and the demands of agriculture mean that huge volumes of untreated water from lakes, reservoirs and rivers are now routinely moved large distances, across countries, up to hundreds of miles, using pipelines, ...
Ecology
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Property prices around the world are rising faster than inflation for the third consecutive quarter according to a new International Housing Observatory report, suggesting pressures are mounting within the global housing ...
Economics & Business
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Teaching children how to identify and combine parts of words is an important component of a comprehensive approach to reading and spelling instruction, new ACU research shows.
Education
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New research pinpoints genes associated with a disease seen as a major contributor to poor performance in Thoroughbred racehorses.
Molecular & Computational biology
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Getting laid off and being unemployed for a long stretch ranks right up there with divorce or a death in the family as one of life's most stressful events.
Social Sciences
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A new study outlines the ways by which city life may be shaping the evolution of urban coyotes, the highly adaptable carnivores spotted in alleyways from Berkeley, Calif., to the Bronx, in New York.
Evolution
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The UK is currently one of the world's most biodiversity-depleted countries. Urbanization is a known driver of the nature crisis. This means that the planning system, which regulates development in the UK, plays a crucial ...
Economics & Business
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The rise of digital platforms has transformed the way researchers recruit participants. "Platforms" means not only social media channels such as X, Facebook and Instagram, but also specialized participant-recruitment websites.
Other
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A groundbreaking study by Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha | University of Canterbury (UC) and the Institute of Environmental Science and Research (ESR) has uncovered alarming levels of microplastic contamination in organic wastes ...
Environment
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