Acoustic Atlas allows people to take part in 'virtual acoustic travel'—taking participants to natural and human-made sites where they can interact, listen and create music with the acoustics of each space.
Social Sciences
Jan 26, 2022
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The housing crisis isn't unique to coastal megacities. From Salt Lake City to Charlotte, rent prices are surging. What can policymakers do to provide some relief? A new study published in the Journal of Urban Economics shows ...
Economics & Business
Jan 26, 2022
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In recent weeks, a web-based word puzzle called Wordle has become a popular daily distraction. Suddenly, millions of people are focused on their vocabulary of five-letter words, and are newly aware of concepts like letter ...
Social Sciences
Jan 26, 2022
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Around the world, populations of many beloved species are declining at increasing rates. According to one grim projection, as many as 40% of the world's species may be extinct by 2050. Alarmingly, many of these declines are ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 26, 2022
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The No. 1 movie on Netflix in recent weeks has been "Don't Look Up," a fictionalized account of scientists struggling in vain to sound the alarm on a comet that is about to destroy Earth. Using the comet as a thinly veiled ...
Environment
Jan 26, 2022
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The search for life on Venus has a fascinating history. Carl Sagan famously and sarcastically said there were obviously dinosaurs there since a thick haze we couldn't see through covered the surface. More recently, evidence ...
Planetary Sciences
Jan 26, 2022
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Through analyses of ice cores from Greenland and Antarctica, a research team led by Lund University in Sweden has found evidence of an extreme solar storm that occurred about 9,200 years ago. What puzzles the researchers ...
Planetary Sciences
Jan 26, 2022
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The increasing salinity in freshwater habitats—rivers, lakes, wetlands, etc.— is a global threat to the conservation of biodiversity and the natural habitats of the world. Human activities such as mining and intensive ...
Ecology
Jan 26, 2022
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A team of researchers affiliated with multiple institutions in China, the U.S. and Brazil has used "handedness" in chiral gold nanoparticles to enhance immune response to the influenza virus in mice. The group describes their ...
Phases are integral to how we define our world. We navigate through the phases of our lives, from child to teenager to adult, chaperoned along the way by our changing traits and behaviors. Nature, too, undergoes phase changes. ...
Condensed Matter
Jan 26, 2022
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