Highly valued economically, ecologically and culturally, the white oak (Quercus alba) is a keystone forest species and is one of the most abundant trees across much of eastern North America. It also faces declining seedling ...
Plants & Animals
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Does scale matter when communicating spatial data and design? Absolutely—but there's more to it than just a ratio between map distance and real-world distance.
Environment
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A high-density rain gauge observational network in Taiwan reveals that multiple precipitation peaks exist over the mountainous island during summer afternoon convection. This contrasts with previous studies that identified ...
Environment
Feb 20, 2025
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Five years after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, many U.S. cities are still adjusting to a new normal, with more people working remotely and less economic activity in city centers. Other factors, such as underfunded pension ...
Economics & Business
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Urban parks in Kumasi, the capital city of Ghana's Ashanti region, are fast disappearing or in decline. Kumasi was designed 60 years ago as a "garden city", with green belts, parks and urban green spaces. These have been ...
Environment
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Researchers, including those from the University of Tokyo, developed Deep Nanometry, an analytical technique combining advanced optical equipment with a noise removal algorithm based on unsupervised deep learning.
Bio & Medicine
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A research team led by Rumi Chunara—an NYU associate professor with appointments in both the Tandon School of Engineering and the School of Global Public Health—has unveiled a new artificial intelligence (AI) system that ...
Environment
Feb 20, 2025
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A new publication by researchers from the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Oxford shows that the relationship between water temperature and the main biological mechanism by which the ocean captures atmospheric ...
Earth Sciences
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In molecular shuttles, a ring molecule is threaded onto a linear molecular strand and can move between two portions of the strand, called stations, in response to external stimuli. Chemical stimuli, light or mechanical forces ...
Nanophysics
Feb 20, 2025
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Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research IAP have developed a foil that changes into polyurethane foam (PU foam) when heated—entirely without health risks. The foil allows for isocyanate-free foaming, ...
Polymers
Feb 20, 2025
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