Taxation in the UK has become increasingly regressive since the financial crisis, particularly since the coalition government came to office, according to academics at the Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute (SPERI).
Economics & Business
Jun 16, 2014
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Expanding solar energy to low-income homes could provide an economic boost to less affluent District families, according to a group of city stakeholders, including the GW Solar Institute and DC Solar United Neighborhoods.
Energy & Green Tech
Jun 16, 2014
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Urgent action is needed by countries to better manage forest genetic resources, to ensure that people can continue to rely on these resources for their nutrition, livelihoods and resilience over the long term. Ready access ...
Environment
Jun 16, 2014
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Resesarchers have put a method of estimating animal population size to the test—and found counting a species' faecal matter is the most accurate way to sum up their abundance quickly—at least with quokkas.
Ecology
Jun 16, 2014
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An Albuquerque startup company has licensed a Sandia National Laboratories technology that offers a way to make molybdenum-99, a key radioactive isotope needed for diagnostic imaging in nuclear medicine, in the United States. ...
Energy & Green Tech
Jun 16, 2014
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Before it can fertilize an egg, a sperm has to bind to and bore through an outer egg layer known as the zona pellucida. Despite decades of research, some of the biological mechanisms behind this process remain unclear. A ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 16, 2014
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Most research examining growing income inequality in the United States has focused on economic causes, for seemingly obvious reasons.
Social Sciences
Jun 16, 2014
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US researchers have carried out an environmental lifecycle assessment of 2-megawatt wind turbines mooted for a large wind farm in the US Pacific Northwest. Writing in the International Journal of Sustainable Manufacturing, ...
Energy & Green Tech
Jun 16, 2014
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What's in the cards weather-wise for the 2014 Atlantic hurricane season? Although the start of astronomical summer for the northern hemisphere is still over a week away on June 21st, meteorological summer has already begun ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 16, 2014
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EPFL scientists have developed a mathematical model to minimize the infrastructure and operational costs of the TOSA ultra-rapid rechargeable electric bus system.
Energy & Green Tech
Jun 16, 2014
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