As U.S. authorities prepare to investigate Silicon Valley's digital giants, they'll look for inspiration—and warnings—from Europe, where regulators have led global efforts to rein in Big Tech with only mixed results.
Business
Jun 7, 2019
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A new study has found that specialist active management firms outperform those that have a more mixed offering of active and passive products, with the benefit of specialisation being 0.7 per cent a year on average.
Economics & Business
Jun 7, 2019
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Copper and platinum nanoparticles added to the surface of a blue titania photocatalyst significantly improve its ability to recycle atmospheric carbon dioxide into hydrocarbon fuels.
Materials Science
Jun 7, 2019
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Over half of Australian teachers suffer from anxiety and nearly one-fifth are depressed. These are the findings of our soon-to-be-published study assessing teachers' well-being.
Social Sciences
Jun 7, 2019
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In Dr. Seuss's The Lorax, the Lorax famously said: "I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues."
Plants & Animals
Jun 7, 2019
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Wolf populations in the wild jumped in France last year, a faster-than-expected increase that will prompt the government to increase hunting quotas and take other measures to protect livestock herds, officials said Friday.
Ecology
Jun 7, 2019
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Coral reef experts from around the world are calling for an urgent re-evaluation of our climate goals in the light of increasing evidence of unprecedented speed of change to these fragile ecosystems.Coral reefs, which have ...
Environment
Jun 7, 2019
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For many years the recycling collected from households in the UK and other Western countries has been exported. This strategy has enabled these countries to carry on without much thought about how consumers purchase goods ...
Environment
Jun 7, 2019
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I drafted this article while looking north over the frozen Lincoln Sea, at the northernmost tip of Ellesmere Island in Canada. I was at Alert, a Canadian Forces Station which, at 82°N, is the most northerly permanently inhabited ...
Environment
Jun 7, 2019
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In a 2015 essay, poet and novelist Margaret Atwood wrote, "It's not climate change, it's everything change."
Environment
Jun 7, 2019
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