Researchers have found that a two-dimensional carbon material is tougher than graphene and resists cracking—even the strongest crack under pressure, a problem materials scientists have long been grappling with. For instance, ...
Nanomaterials
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Confidence. Persistence. Ingenuity. Conventional wisdom tells us these are some of the traits needed for success at the office. But within teams, less laudable characteristics—maintaining the status quo, for instance—might ...
Economics & Business
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The CSIC-UNESPA scientific expedition has been underway since last January with the aim of monitoring the presence of the highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (HPAI H5N1) in Antarctica. The first results of the campaign, ...
Plants & Animals
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Climate change, social inequality, and technological disruption—our world is facing enormous challenges. But who decides how we tackle them? Is it only politicians, scientists, and business leaders who shape the future? ...
Social Sciences
Feb 18, 2025
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One of President Donald Trump's major promises during the 2024 presidential campaign was to launch mass deportations of immigrants living in the U.S. without legal authorization.
Economics & Business
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Accurate assessment of the land surface damage (such as small-scale fracturing and inelastic deformation) from two major earthquakes in 2023 can help scientists assess future earthquake hazards and therefore minimize risk ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 18, 2025
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Atomic nuclei exhibit multiple energy scales simultaneously—ranging from hundreds down to fractions of a megaelectronvolt. A new study demonstrates that these drastically different scales can be explained through calculations ...
General Physics
Feb 18, 2025
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Traces of organisms detected in sediments from 7.5 kilometers below the ocean surface reveal how organisms living in the deep sea are engineering their own environments. Analyses of sediment cores from the Pacific Ocean's ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 18, 2025
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Psychologists have discovered a strategy that could help eBay sellers make better deals: Don't delay when responding to buyer offers.
Economics & Business
Feb 18, 2025
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More pocked with craters than any other object in our solar system, Jupiter's outermost and second-biggest Galilean moon, Callisto, appears geologically unremarkable. In the 1990s, however, NASA's Galileo spacecraft captured ...
Astrobiology
Feb 18, 2025
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