A team of scientists at Arizona State University has proposed that the large blobs of material in Earth's mantle (the large low-shear velocity provinces, LLSVPs) may be left over pieces of Theia, a protoplanet theorized to ...
Can peace between Israelis and Palestinians be achieved, in part, through anti-bias messaging in children's educational entertainment? That is the subject of a new book by Yael Warshel, assistant professor of telecommunications ...
Social Sciences
Mar 26, 2021
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For 30 years, the Asdex Upgrade has been paving the way for a fusion power plant that generates climate-neutral energy. The tokamak fusion plant was repeatedly expanded and improved during this time. Not least for this reason, ...
Plasma Physics
Mar 26, 2021
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When a baby puts something from the floor in their mouth, we panic, but the mouth already contains thousands of bacteria. Now a team of researchers is looking at archaeological remains for an example of how Japanese oral ...
Archaeology
Mar 26, 2021
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Almost all wild canines in Australia are genetically more than half dingo, a new study led by UNSW Sydney shows—suggesting that lethal measures to control 'wild dog' populations are primarily targeting dingoes.
Plants & Animals
Mar 26, 2021
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Astronomers are now in a better position to interpret observations of supernova remnants thanks to computer simulations of these cataclysmic events by RIKEN astrophysicists.
Astronomy
Mar 26, 2021
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In a groundbreaking study, a research team that included a Johns Hopkins engineer compiled and analyzed an unprecedented amount of regulatory data that describe the integrity of oil and gas wells in multiple states. The study ...
Environment
Mar 26, 2021
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In recent days, Prime Minister Scott Morrison told Australians the treatment of women is not "of a scale that any government can simply change, it is something we must change as a society."
Social Sciences
Mar 26, 2021
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As incomes in developing countries continue to rise, demand for air conditioners is expected to triple by 2050. The surge will multiply what is already a major source of greenhouse gas emissions: Air conditioning is currently ...
Environment
Mar 26, 2021
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Criminology is the study of individual and social factors associated with crime and the people who perpetrate it. One of the discipline's well-established truths is that men commit violent and sexual offenses at far higher ...
Social Sciences
Mar 26, 2021
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