Smartphones have made multi-tasking easier, more understandable, and at times compulsive. But in social settings, these devices can lead to a form of contemporary rudeness called phone snubbing, or phubbing: the act of ignoring ...
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Earthquakes—like lightning—strike unpredictably. The Earth's tectonic plates, however, hide subtle warnings that a major fault may soon break. Like forecasting a thunderstorm, knowing how to read the warnings could help ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 9, 2021
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Physicists have created a new way to observe details about the structure and composition of materials that improves upon previous methods. Conventional spectroscopy changes the frequency of light shining on a sample over ...
Optics & Photonics
Aug 9, 2021
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Earth could exceed 1.5 degrees Celsius of global warming—the "safe" limit for temperature rise outlined in the Paris Agreement—as soon as the early 2030s, according to a landmark report by the world's most senior climate ...
Environment
Aug 9, 2021
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When Donald Trump became president in 2017, federal employees who lean Democratic found themselves working for an administration they didn't agree with. The same thing happened eight years earlier to Republican bureaucrats ...
Economics & Business
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Shortages of personal protective equipment and medical devices, dairies pouring gallons of milk down the drain and delivery delays of online purchases. All are examples of how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted and changed ...
Economics & Business
Aug 9, 2021
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Humans are unequivocally warming the planet, and that's triggering rapid changes in the atmosphere, oceans and polar regions, and increasing extreme weather around the world, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ...
Environment
Aug 9, 2021
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A recent study finds U.S. companies that have a substantial number of employees in foreign jurisdictions with lower tax rates are more likely than their peers to "artificially" locate earnings in those jurisdictions—and ...
Economics & Business
Aug 9, 2021
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A cover-up, or an attempt to conceal evidence of wrongdoing, error or unethical actions, can prove harmful and costly for an organization. Often starting small, a cover-up can turn into a scandal that forever tarnishes the ...
Social Sciences
Aug 9, 2021
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An epochal new report from the world's top climate scientists warns that the planet will warm by 1.5 degrees Celsius in the next two decades without drastic moves to eliminate greenhouse gas pollution. The finding from the ...
Environment
Aug 9, 2021
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