Video: Surfside condo collapse and the science of concrete
Concrete buildings don't just collapse out of the blue.
Materials Science
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Long-term measurements show how the climate is changing
Twenty years of measurements are only the beginning. Long-term measurements over several decades are crucial to enable predictions of how airborne particles affect the future climate, according to Lund University researcher ...
Environment
Sep 20, 2021
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Former coalmining communities are more politically disenchanted than other 'left behind' areas
Those in ex-mining areas are also less likely to vote for new populist and nationalist parties compared to socio-economic counterparts elsewhere. Researchers argue that the modern Left may have lost these communities to "apathy ...
Political science
Sep 20, 2021
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Harnessing drones, geophysics and artificial intelligence to root out land mines
Armed with a newly minted undergraduate degree in geology, Jasper Baur is in the mining business. Not those mines where we extract metals or minerals; the kind that kill and maim thousands of people every year. Baur and colleagues ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 20, 2021
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Pinpointing the role of climate change in every storm is impossible, and a luxury most countries can't afford
Tropical Storm Ida recently left a path of devastation across the US, capping a summer beset by wildfires, heatwaves and floods which broke records around the world. The inevitable question after each of these extreme weather ...
Environment
Sep 20, 2021
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Why the pandemic made some cats sick with stress and how we can help them
Those of us who own pets probably enjoyed their company in the depths of the pandemic. Not only are pets potentially good for our physical health, they also benefit our mental wellbeing. Indeed, they may have even been a ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 20, 2021
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Researchers explore the impact of kindness on campus
A small act of kindness can go a long way, especially say UBC Okanagan researchers, towards bolstering student health and wellness.
Education
Sep 20, 2021
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After the flood disaster in Western Germany: Science searches for answers
On 14 July 2021, between 60 and 180 mm of rain fell in the Eifel region in just 22 hours—an amount that would otherwise have fallen in several months and which led to catastrophic flooding. The events were far more destructive ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 20, 2021
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All-nitride superconducting qubit made on a silicon substrate
Researchers at the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT, President: Tokuda Hideyuki, Ph.D.), in collaboration with researchers at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and ...
Superconductivity
Sep 20, 2021
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Conservation study: Fostering wanderlust benefits pandas
In the ongoing quest to understand what makes a good wildlife habitat, surprising new research shows there may be too much of a good thing when it comes to pinpointing optimal conditions. Embracing somewhat reduced standards ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 20, 2021
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