With Americans largely self-isolating amid concerns about COVID-19, some of the hardest hit areas are already seeing electricity demand begin to weaken. Could this be a sign of things to come?
Economics & Business
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Modern society relies on technologies with electronic integrated circuits (IC) at their heart, but these may prove to be less suitable in future applications such as quantum computing and environmental sensing. Photonic integrated ...
Optics & Photonics
Mar 20, 2020
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University of Michigan economists now expect a U.S. recession caused by the coronavirus, though a rapidly evolving, uncertain situation makes drawing firm conclusions difficult.
Economics & Business
Mar 20, 2020
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Times of crisis can bring out the best in people. It can also reveal the strangest parts of human nature.
Social Sciences
Mar 20, 2020
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The unprecedented bushfires that struck the east coast of Australia this summer killed an estimated one billion animals across millions of hectares.
Plants & Animals
Mar 20, 2020
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Though biodiversity is in crisis globally, amphibians in particular face a variety of threats. One such threat comes from pathogens like the amphibian chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd). Bd causes chytridiomycosis, ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 20, 2020
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Two years ago, MIT economist Pierre Azoulay started a lively discussion when a working paper he co-authored, "Age and High-Growth Entrepreneurship," revealed a surprising fact about startup founders: Among firms in the top ...
Economics & Business
Mar 20, 2020
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Imagine a massive mug of cold, dense cream with hot coffee poured on top. Now place it on a rotating table. Over time, the fluids will slowly mix into each other, and heat from the coffee will eventually reach the bottom ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 20, 2020
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NASA said it has suspended work on building and testing the rocket and capsule for its Artemis manned mission to the Moon due to the rising number of coronavirus cases in the community.
Space Exploration
Mar 20, 2020
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A previously unknown significant source of carbon just discovered in the Arctic has scientists marveling at a once overlooked contributor to local coastal ecosystems—and concerned about what it may mean in an era of climate ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 20, 2020
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