Infrared imagery is like having night vision, and NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite provided a nighttime view of Tropical Storm Vicky that revealed outside winds are weakening the storm.
Environment
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Quantum technology holds great promise: Just a few years from now, quantum computers are expected to revolutionize database searches, AI systems, and computational simulations. Today already, quantum cryptography can guarantee ...
Optics & Photonics
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Just how stressed are teachers? A recent Gallup poll found teachers are tied with nurses for the most stressful occupation in America today. Unfortunately, that stress can have a trickle-down effect on their students, leading ...
Education
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Strata completeness refers to "the fraction of time intervals of some specified length (t) that have been preserved." Since the 1780s, it has been widely accepted that most stratigraphic sections are riddled with gaps and ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 15, 2020
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NASA's Aqua satellite captured a visible image of Tropical Depression Rene as it was dissipating in the central North Atlantic Ocean.
Environment
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A recent study found strong associations between the financial holdings of legislators in the U.S. House of Representatives and how those lawmakers voted on key financial legislation. The study suggests that many lawmakers ...
Economics & Business
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Maerl beds stud the ocean floor like underwater brambles. They're pastel pink and, despite their knobbly appearance, made up of a red seaweed. This algae has a limestone skeleton which gives it a complex three-dimensional ...
Ecology
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A collaboration across three FLEET nodes has reviewed the fundamental theories underpinning the quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE).
Quantum Physics
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State-owned enterprises balance demands of markets and public sector. Ambiguous and changing demands create a power vacuum giving management more power, while creating potential for conflicts. State-owned enterprises are ...
Economics & Business
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In recent months there has been talk of a "Gaelic crisis" in Scotland, based on a study that predicts Gaelic may be disappearing across the country. I do not speak Gaelic, but I have spent five years researching bilingualism, ...
Social Sciences
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