Malawi is one of the most disaster-prone countries in Africa. In the past 15 years it has experienced 16 floods, one rainfall-related landslide, five storm-related disasters, and two severe droughts.
Social Sciences
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We've all felt the sting of guilt when fruit and vegetables go bad before we could eat them. Now, researchers from MIT and the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) have shown they can extend the shelf ...
Biotechnology
May 21, 2025
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When wood thrushes arrive in northern Mississippi on their spring migration and begin to serenade my neighborhood with their ethereal, harmonized song, it's one of the great joys of the season. It's also a minor miracle. ...
Ecology
May 21, 2025
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Researchers at the University of Tsukuba have discovered a phenomenon—applying pressure to a copper-chromium Prussian blue analog, which is a compound featuring crystal voids, causes the discharge of water retained within ...
Materials Science
May 21, 2025
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High-entropy alloys (HEAs) offer tunable compositions and surface structures, presenting significant potential for creating novel active sites to enhance CO2 reduction (CO2RR) catalysis, a key process for sustainable energy.
Analytical Chemistry
May 21, 2025
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If you've ever sat waiting at the doctor's office to give a blood sample, you might have wished there was a way to find the same information without needles. But for all the medical breakthroughs of the 20th century, the ...
Biochemistry
May 21, 2025
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Well-intentioned employer-paid maternity leave policies may be the catalyst for the unintended consequence of costing women jobs in the technology workforce instead of boosting their participation, according to a study in ...
Economics & Business
May 21, 2025
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By carefully placing nanostructures on a flat surface, researchers at Linköping University, Sweden, have significantly improved the performance of so-called optical metasurfaces in conductive plastics. This is a major step ...
Nanophysics
May 21, 2025
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A broad systematic review has revealed that quantum computing applications in health care remain more theoretical than practical, despite growing excitement in the field.
Quantum Physics
May 21, 2025
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Transforming trash to treasure might sound like alchemy, but in some industries it's already happening. For example, furfural, an abundant plant byproduct, is regularly converted to tetrahydrofuran (THF)-based compounds that ...
Analytical Chemistry
May 21, 2025
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