Can digitalization contribute to the development of a more sustainable economy? Sustainability has emerged as a key concern for many DAX companies—but only insofar as their customers call for improvement. Most are reluctant ...
Economics & Business
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The continued depletion of fossil fuel-based energy resources is leading us towards a growing energy crisis. Consequently, this has set in motion a search for sustainable alternative resources. Thermoelectric energy conversion—a ...
Materials Science
Mar 28, 2022
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The road is a dangerous place for animals: They can easily get run over, which can seriously affect wildlife diversity and populations in the long term. There is also a human economic cost and possible injury or even death ...
Plants & Animals
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Physicists know about the huge chasm between quantum physics and the theory of gravity. However, in recent decades, theoretical physics has provided some plausible conjecture to bridge this gap and to describe the behavior ...
Quantum Physics
Mar 28, 2022
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Despite their reputation as living fossils, scorpions have remained evolutionarily nimble—especially in developing venom to fend off the rise of mammal predators. A new genetic analysis of scorpions' toxin-making reveals ...
Plants & Animals
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At least hundreds of so-far unidentified species of mammals are hiding in plain sight around the world, a new study suggests.
Plants & Animals
Mar 28, 2022
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When tawny crazy ants move into a new area, the invasive species is like an ecological wrecking ball—driving out native insects and small animals and causing major headaches for homeowners. But scientists at The University ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 28, 2022
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If life is abundant in the universe, atmospheric methane may be the first sign of life beyond Earth detectable by astronomers. Although nonbiological processes can generate methane, a new study by scientists at UC Santa Cruz ...
Astrobiology
Mar 28, 2022
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After the world missed almost all of its targets to protect fast-dwindling nature for the last decade, observers following a new round of negotiations are focusing as much on how goals will be put in place as the headline ...
Ecology
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News avoidance is a topical phenomenon. Now amidst the distressing news from the war in Ukraine, many people may wish to skip news altogether or at least temporarily.
Social Sciences
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