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Economics & Business Jul 17, 2023

System tracks movement of food through global humanitarian supply chain

Although more than enough food is produced to feed everyone in the world, as many as 828 million people face hunger today. Poverty, social inequity, climate change, natural disasters, and political conflicts all contribute ...

Ecology Jun 15, 2023

Oceans to get better protection with connected underwater technology

Amid rising sea levels, plastics pollution and overfishing, the emerging "Internet of Underwater Things" will vastly expand knowledge about the world's seas.

Optics & Photonics Dec 9, 2022

A quantum receiver enhanced by adaptive learning

The quantum receiver is an elementary component in quantum information processing tasks. It aims to extract necessary information from non-orthogonal quantum states. Due to the nature of shot noise, signals carried by electromagnetic ...

Social Sciences Sep 26, 2022

How do we deal with the polarization around climate change?

President Biden recently scored a big win in the fight against climate change with his Inflation Reduction Act, but despite the compromises it made to the fossil fuel interest, not a single Republican voted for it—neither ...

Earth Sciences Sep 19, 2022

Bringing arsenic-safe drinking water to rural California

According to the Rev. Dennis Hutson, people used to love the taste of Allensworth's water.

Biotechnology Aug 30, 2022

Drones working to detect crop disease early, propel agricultural research forward

Over the last decade, agriculture research has become more and more advanced—in large part because of unmanned aerial vehicles, otherwise known as drones. At South Dakota State University, drones have become integrated ...

Political science Aug 9, 2022

What's the future of drones in counterterrorism operations and the Ukraine war?

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign political science professor Nicholas Grossman is the author of "Drones and Terrorism: Asymmetric Warfare and the Threat to Global Security" and specializes in international relations. ...

Economics & Business Apr 26, 2022

Experts discuss guaranteed income programs and their impact on public health

Baltimore City is the latest to pilot a policy solution to poverty that's gaining momentum across the nation: guaranteed income, which places no-strings-attached cash directly in the hands of residents who need it most. In ...

Cell & Microbiology Mar 1, 2022

New procedure for characterizing immune cells in the lungs during clinical trials

Patients in clinical trials must undergo thorough examination in order to allow the effects of new medications to be determined as precisely as possible. One important factor here is the response of their immune systems. ...

Social Sciences Jan 19, 2022

Study finds children are exposed to a brand a minute

Attaching cameras to children has revealed they are exposed to 554 brands a day through marketing, a new study from the University of Otago has found.

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