The 15-minute city is a popular urban planning concept that promotes people living close to essential services, and encourages the use of walking and biking. Public transit is sometimes included in the transport mix, preferred ...
Environment
Nov 21, 2023
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Have you ever felt nostalgic when thinking about the past? Then you are not alone. According to survey research, around two-thirds of the European public feel nostalgic.
Political science
Nov 21, 2023
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Misinformation is debated everywhere and has justifiably sparked concerns. It can polarize the public, reduce health-protective behaviors such as mask wearing and vaccination, and erode trust in science. Much of misinformation ...
Political science
Nov 21, 2023
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Climate-fueled disaster is now front-page news, as record-breaking floods, fires, droughts and storms keep arriving.
Environment
Nov 21, 2023
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When bacteria build communities, they cooperate and share nutrients across generations. Researchers at the University of Basel have been able to demonstrate this for the first time using a newly developed method. This innovative ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 21, 2023
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The extent to which aerosol particles affect the climate depends on how much water the particles can hold in the atmosphere. The capacity to hold water is referred to as hygroscopicity (K) and, in turn, depends on further ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 21, 2023
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For the first time, it was shown in living cells how the bacterium E. coli regulates genes that help it survive in a new environment. Biochemist Fatema Zahra Rashid managed to do this using a technique she fine-tuned. Her ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 21, 2023
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Variations in the skull shape of vultures have been found to coincide with the preferred method each species uses to feed on a carcass.
Paleontology & Fossils
Nov 21, 2023
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A team of comparative cognition researchers at the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, working with a colleague from Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras, in Argentina, has found that a type of falcon can ...
Scientists have engineered a living material resembling human phlegm, which will help them to better understand how a certain kind of infection develops on the lungs of patients with cystic fibrosis.
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 21, 2023
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