Between Friday, 13 and Monday, 16 September 2024, a low-pressure system named Boris brought record-breaking rainfall to central Europe, leading to severe flooding in parts of Austria, Czechia, Slovakia, Poland, Romania and ...
Earth Sciences
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New research indicates that UK adults experience less of a connection with nature than adults from most other countries, ranking 59th out of 65 national groups surveyed.
Social Sciences
Oct 25, 2024
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A pivotal shift in how UK courts view eyewitness evidence is needed, according to new research from the University of Aberdeen.
Social Sciences
Oct 25, 2024
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Misinformation, incorrect or false information shared unintentionally, can be extremely damaging. Its climate change-denying sort can make taking much-needed action against global warming more difficult. It can be even deadly, ...
Social Sciences
Oct 25, 2024
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When a reviewer loses an "elite" badge on the restaurant review site Yelp, the quality of their reviews declines, but the perceived value of those reviews remains surprisingly high because of how the site displays their status, ...
Social Sciences
Oct 25, 2024
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Researchers from The University of New Mexico School of Engineering looked to the natural world to explain how synchronized systems can work more efficiently and made a significant discovery. Their results were published ...
Mathematics
Oct 25, 2024
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A team of biologists affiliated with several institutions in China has learned more about the means by which tardigrades are able to withstand high doses of radiation. In their study, published in the journal Science, the ...
Dark photons are hypothetical particles that resemble light particles (i.e., photons), but interact weakly with normal matter, which would make them impossible or very difficult to detect using conventional experimental methods. ...
"Nature-positive" is seemingly everywhere. Two weeks ago, Australia hosted the first Global Nature Positive Summit. This week, nations are meeting in Colombia for a global biodiversity summit to discuss progress on nature-positive ...
Ecology
Oct 25, 2024
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Preliminary results from an ongoing long-term survey conducted by researchers at William & Mary's Batten School & VIMS suggest that a poor year class of young-of-year striped bass was produced in the Virginia tributaries ...
Plants & Animals
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