At the COP26 world climate conference in Glasgow, the signatory states were able to reach an agreement after lengthy discussions. We spoke with Jochem Marotzke, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, about ...
Environment
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Researchers of Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) and their local collaborators from Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory (TLL) have developed a rapid Raman spectroscopy-based method for the detection ...
Plants & Animals
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Stars are born from clouds of gas and dust that collapse under their own gravitational attraction. As the cloud collapses, a dense, hot core forms and begins gathering dust and gas, creating an object called a "protostar."
Astronomy
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NASA's Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD) will use laser communications systems to transmit data from space to Earth. Below are six things you need to know about NASA's revolutionary LCRD mission.
Space Exploration
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If you think living away from the coast keeps you safe from climate change and rising waters, think again.
Earth Sciences
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Global change is eroding life on earth at an unprecedented rate and scale. Species extinctions have accelerated over the last decades, with the concomitant loss of the functions and services they provide to human societies.
Ecology
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National University of Singapore marine ecologists studied the dynamics of interactions between corals and macroalgae (seaweeds) on Singapore's urban reefs and investigated the processes that mediate them, providing important ...
Ecology
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Phonons—the quasiparticle describing lattice vibrations in solids—directly dictates various properties of solid state systems, such as the thermal conductivity, electron mobility, structural stability and conventional ...
Condensed Matter
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European banks will soon be required to incorporate climate change risks into the stress testing of their equity. Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have now developed a new approach in cooperation with ...
Economics & Business
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A new method for creating one of chemistry's most widely used class of compounds could revolutionize industrial processes, making them cheaper, simpler and more environmentally friendly.
Materials Science
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