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Earth Sciences 4 hours ago

As ancient oceans warmed, carbon export and fish productivity surged

Ocean fish stocks have been increasingly exploited over time, and remote sensing shows they have declined in the open ocean over the last three decades, particularly in the tropics. But it's uncertain how fish populations ...

Economics & Business 4 hours ago

American jobs offer more autonomy—and more stress

American jobs have become increasingly stressful over the past two decades—but workers have also gained greater ability to exercise independence and make decisions at work.

Environment 6 hours ago

Why the WHO must declare climate change a public health emergency

Across the world, people have felt the impacts of climate change firsthand. The Northern Hemisphere has had another record-breaking summer season of heat and extreme weather events. The Southern Hemisphere now faces a summer ...

Social Sciences 11 hours ago

End of COVID-era SNAP emergency food assistance linked to increased child maltreatment rates

A new study has found that in U.S. counties that ended COVID-19 pandemic-era Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Emergency Allotments, child maltreatment rates went up. The findings from the study in the American ...

Environment 13 hours ago

Optimistic climate futures for local communities in the UK imagined in a new report

A new report co-authored by researchers from the University of York and WWF highlights how local communities across the U.K. imagine positive, sustainable, and resilient futures for the places where they live and work.

Earth Sciences 14 hours ago

How the Indian Ocean is linked to Europe's early-winter rain and storms

When we think about Europe's winter weather, the Indian Ocean is probably not the first place we look. We might picture Atlantic storms, cold air arriving from the north or rain sweeping across the Mediterranean. In my research, ...

Mathematics 15 hours ago

The phantom lighthouse: New research explains one of Australia's strangest illusions

There are two lighthouses on Lady Elliot Island, at the southernmost tip of Australia's Great Barrier Reef. The first was built in 1873, but was decommissioned in 1995 when the second took over the job of warning ships off ...

Condensed Matter 16 hours ago

Ultrathin metal layer boosts spin-related signals, opening a door to ultralow-power electronics

Researchers at Kyushu University have found that an ultrathin layer of iridium manganese (IrMn) can improve two spin-related signals in a structure made of a magnetic insulator and a platinum film. By examining how spin currents ...

Analytical Chemistry 16 hours ago

Atomic magnetism reveals why iron, but not chromium, can produce ammonia using sunlight

Two nearly identical materials have completely different chemical behavior. Research teams at the University of Vienna and TU Wien studied catalysts that use the energy of sunlight to produce ammonia. Surprisingly, when the ...

Cell & Microbiology 16 hours ago

Macromolecular crowding could help build artificial cell systems

Macromolecular crowding can serve as a design tool for controlling the formation and organization of synthetic DNA droplets, a study from Science Tokyo reveals. Researchers investigated this strategy using DNA nanostars and ...

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