Political momentum is growing in Australia to cut greenhouse gas emissions to net-zero by 2050. On Friday, Treasurer Josh Frydenberg was the latest member of the federal government to throw his weight behind the goal, and ...
Environment
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Agent-based simulations (ABS) are powerful computational tools that help scientists understand complex biological systems. These simulations are an inexpensive and efficient way to quickly test hypotheses about the physiology ...
Biotechnology
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Introducing eVoting could have a positive effect on increasing voter turnout among young people, a University of Otago study suggests.
Political science
Sep 27, 2021
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Perovskite solar cells are in many ways already as efficient as conventional crystalline silicon-based solar cells; perovskite has the added benefit of being much more cost-effective than its silicon counterpart. Perovskites ...
Condensed Matter
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A group of astronomers from the Astrobiology Center, the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, the University of Tokyo, and other institutes, discovered two rocky super-Earth exoplanets lacking thick primordial atmospheres ...
Astronomy
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Would you share your most intimate thoughts with strangers?
Social Sciences
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The Indonesian endemic world's largest lizard komodo dragons (Varanus komodoensis) recently entered the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) list of "Endangered" species, marking it as having high risk of ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 27, 2021
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Tiny light-emitting devices that can create all the colors in the rainbow are essential for the next generation of phones and screens.
Optics & Photonics
Sep 27, 2021
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The HIV pandemic hit the LGBTQI+ community, people who were already stigmatized, particularly early: This stigmatization prevented the lessons of the HIV pandemic from being adopted by broader parts of society—with consequences ...
Social Sciences
Sep 27, 2021
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Anthrax is an infectious bacterial disease endemic in some parts of Africa. It affects people, livestock as well as wildlife. Using GPS telemetry data, a team of scientists from the Cheetah Research Project of the Leibniz ...
Plants & Animals
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