Not all online reviews are created equal. Someone who's posted thousands of times on sites such as Yelp or the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) might be seen as more believable than a relative novice reviewer who's submitted ...
Economics & Business
Dec 9, 2024
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Clothes tumble out of skyscrapers, pile up in stairwells, and clog pavements and streets. A voice instructs viewers to "visualize 190,000 garments produced each minute." The cityscape drowning in textiles is just one of the ...
Economics & Business
Dec 9, 2024
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About 100 years ago, humanity learned to see with the help of electrons. In 1924, Louis de Broglie posited that—like light particles—electrons have wave properties. In 1927, the U.S. physicists Davisson and Germer provided ...
Optics & Photonics
Dec 9, 2024
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Researchers at the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) in São Paulo state, Brazil, have developed a sourdough bread formulation enriched with jabuticaba peel that could be an alternative for people with diabetes and others ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 9, 2024
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Lice live their entire lives with a set of genes that in humans would indicate a late-stage degenerative disorder such as Parkinson's or Alzheimer's disease.
Plants & Animals
Dec 9, 2024
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Researchers from Wageningen Food Safety Research (WFSR), part of Wageningen University & Research, have developed a method for detecting microplastics in farmed insects. This is important because insects can be reared on ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Dec 9, 2024
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A cave in Galilee, Israel, has yielded evidence for ritualistic gatherings 35,000 years ago, the earliest on the Asian continent. Three Israeli researchers led the team that published its results in the journal Proceedings ...
Archaeology
Dec 9, 2024
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Dubbed "Conan the Bacterium" for its extraordinary ability to tolerate the harshest of conditions, Deinococcus radiodurans can withstand radiation doses thousands of times higher than what would kill a human—and every other ...
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 9, 2024
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A new USC Stem Cell study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has identified key gene regulators that enable some deafened animals—including fish and lizards—to naturally regenerate their hearing. ...
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 9, 2024
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New research has revealed less than a quarter of the remaining tropical rainforests around the globe can safeguard thousands of threatened species from extinction.
Plants & Animals
Dec 9, 2024
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