In the run-up to the 2020 presidential election, the United States is headed into what could be one of "the most extraordinary years of claims and counter-claims, misinformation, and fact-checking," says John Wihbey, who ...
Internet
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Agriculture and the food system have long been challenging subjects for climate negotiators at the United Nations' annual gathering to advance the global agenda on climate change. Issues related to mitigation, fiscal responsibility, ...
Environment
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Since the mass production of plastics began in the 1940s, the versatile polymers have spread rapidly across the globe. Although plastics have made life easier in many ways, disposing of the materials is a growing problem. ...
Environment
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The researchers say the new sensors could help detect spoilage and reduce food waste for supermarkets and consumers.
Analytical Chemistry
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According to the Mayo Clinic, about 20% of breast cancers make abnormally high levels of a protein called human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2). When displayed on the surface of cancer cells, this signaling protein ...
Bio & Medicine
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Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI and ETH Zurich have developed a new material that retains a given shape when it is put into a magnetic field. It is a composite material consisting of two components. Unlike ...
Materials Science
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Linear optics comprises one of the best examples for demonstrating quantum physics. It works at room temperatures, and can be observed with relatively simple devices. Linear optics involves physical processes that conserve ...
Quantum Physics
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Chemical analyses of meteorites allow for a better estimation of the chemical composition of the Earth and its potential building blocks. That is the result of a study conducted by a research team from the Institutes of Geology ...
Earth Sciences
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Since the beginning of the last century, research on complex systems has advanced the fields of chaos, fractals and networks. A network consists of nodes and edges, where nodes represent the elements of a complex system and ...
Computer Sciences
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On 1st June 2019, the European Beyond EPICA Oldest Ice Core project started with the aim of drilling for and recovering ice from up to 1.5 million years ago in Antarctica. The previous EPICA project recovered ice from 800,000 ...
Earth Sciences
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