President-elect Donald Trump is entering the White House with an ambitious day one agenda of executive orders and policies, chief among them a mass deportation plan that would target millions of undocumented immigrants.
Social Sciences
Jan 16, 2025
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Presidents need science advice. From climate change and pandemics to the governance of AI and the country's nuclear arsenal, science sits at the center of a range of foreign and domestic policy challenges that reach the president's ...
Political science
Jan 16, 2025
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A mussel bed along Northern California's Dillon Beach is as healthy and biodiverse as it was about 80 years ago, when two young students surveyed it shortly before Pearl Harbor was attacked and one was sent to fight in World ...
Ecology
Jan 16, 2025
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Paper-thin optical lenses simple enough to mass produce like microchips could enable a new generation of compact optical devices. A team with researchers at the University of Tokyo and JSR Corp. fabricated and tested flat ...
Optics & Photonics
Jan 16, 2025
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Approximately 66 million years ago, the Chicxulub asteroid, estimated to be 10–15 kilometers in diameter, struck the Yucatán Peninsula (in current-day Mexico), creating a 200-kilometer-wide impact crater. This impact triggered ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 16, 2025
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A new study co-led by the Center for Coastal Climate Resilience (CCCR) at UC Santa Cruz shows coral reef restoration in Florida and Puerto Rico could save thousands of lives and prevent hundreds of millions of dollars in ...
Environment
Jan 16, 2025
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A research team from the South China Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) studied the global variability of plant hydraulics in relation to wind speed. Their findings are published in Nature Ecology & ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 16, 2025
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Indonesia produced nearly four times the amount of nickel in recent years compared to a decade earlier—following the global push for a low-carbon revolution that drives the mining for the mineral essential for electric ...
Environment
Jan 16, 2025
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A research team from the Erich Schmid Institute of Materials Science, Austrian Academy of Sciences, has unveiled an approach to improve irradiation resistance through high entropy crystalline and amorphous nanolaminates.
Materials Science
Jan 16, 2025
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Pandora, NASA's newest exoplanet mission, is one step closer to launch with the completion of the spacecraft bus, which provides the structure, power and other systems that will allow the mission to carry out its work. Pandora's ...
Space Exploration
Jan 16, 2025
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