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Environment Jun 13, 2023

The case for compost: Why recycling food waste is so much better than sending it to landfill

Most food and garden waste in Australia comes from homes. Australian households waste 3.1 million tons of food each year. That's more than five kilograms each household per week.

Social Sciences May 10, 2023

Q&A: Can AI and creativity coexist?

One of the Writers Guild of America's demands in its current strike is for studios to regulate the use of artificial intelligence for creating, writing and rewriting TV and movie scripts and other material.

Quantum Physics Mar 31, 2023

Seeing is more than believing: Exploring 'de Sitter space' to explain gravity in the expanding early universe

Having more tools helps; having the right tools is better. Utilizing multiple dimensions may simplify difficult problems—not only in science fiction but also in physics—and tie together conflicting theories.

Ecology Mar 29, 2023

Detecting coral biodiversity in seawater samples

Researchers from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) have developed a method to measure coral biodiversity through extracting the environmental DNA (or eDNA) from a liter of surface seawater collected from ...

Quantum Physics Mar 10, 2023

A framework to self-test all entangled states using quantum networks

Self-testing is a promising method to infer the physics underlying specific quantum experiments using only collected measurements. While this method can be used to examine bipartite pure entangled states, so far it could ...

Planetary Sciences Mar 7, 2023

Elegantly modeling Earth's abrupt glacial transitions

Proxy data—indirect records of the Earth's climate found in unlikely places like coral, pollen, trees and sediments—show interesting oscillations approximately every 100,000 years starting about one million years ago. ...

Cell & Microbiology Feb 20, 2023

Method for quantifying the spread of bacterial resistance to antibiotics developed

The discovery of antibiotics is one of the greatest advances in medicine, as it has enabled the effective treatment of infections caused by pathogenic bacteria. However, these compounds have been losing effectiveness due ...

Optics & Photonics Feb 9, 2023

Scientists boost quantum signals while reducing noise

A certain amount of noise is inherent in any quantum system. For instance, when researchers want to read information from a quantum computer, which harnesses quantum mechanical phenomena to solve certain problems too complex ...

Environment Jan 26, 2023

Study suggests UK underestimates its methane emissions from oil and gas production; other countries probably do as well

Methane is the second most important greenhouse gas after carbon dioxide, contributing about 1 degree Fahrenheit of present-day global warming relative to pre-industrial times. One major source of methane to the atmosphere ...

Environment Jan 17, 2023

New study presents novel behavioral barrier-based framework for sustainable plastic management

Plastics are quite commonplace in today's world. Consequently, plastic waste is an environmental menace that is increasing at an exponential rate. The negative impact of plastic waste on global social-ecological systems is ...

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