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Plants & Animals Feb 10, 2023

Canberra's superb parrots caught up in housing crisis

Just half a percent of the available tree hollows in Canberra's woodlands are suitable nests for superb parrots.

Political science Feb 9, 2023

Corruption and war: Two scourges that feed off each other

In the world championship of corruption, the competition is fierce. The NGO Transparency International has just published its list of countries according to the level of perceived corruption.

Economics & Business Jan 18, 2023

How large corporations make huge profits from hidden markups at the expense of consumers

Inflation, followed by poverty and social inequality are the most pressing issues worrying people around the world right now. Canada has not been immune from the rising cost of living and is still fighting an inflation rate ...

Paleontology & Fossils Jan 17, 2023

Ancient chimaeras were suction feeders, not shell crushers, new research shows

A rare three-dimensional fossil of an ancient chimaera has revealed new clues about the diversity of these creatures in the Carboniferous period, some 300 million years ago.

Quantum Physics Jan 5, 2023

Review of photonics based on Weyl semimetals

Weyl semimetals are topological materials whose low-energy excitations obey the Weyl equation. In a Weyl semimetal, the conduction and valence bands touch at discrete points in momentum space called Weyl nodes. Weyl nodes ...

Condensed Matter Dec 15, 2022

Dynamical fractal discovered in clean magnetic crystal

The nature and properties of materials depend strongly on dimension. Imagine how different life in a one-dimensional or two-dimensional world would be from the three dimensions we're commonly accustomed to. With this in mind, ...

Evolution Nov 26, 2022

What if the dinosaurs hadn't gone extinct? Why our world might look very different

Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid hit the Earth with the force of 10 billion atomic bombs and changed the course of evolution. The skies darkened and plants stopped photosynthesising. The plants died, then the animals ...

Economics & Business Nov 25, 2022

Corruption fuels carbon dioxide emissions in Asia: Study

Widespread corruption is preventing Asian countries from effectively implementing measures to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions that are known to contribute to global warming, new research suggests.

Condensed Matter Nov 8, 2022

Experiment unveils Berry curvature mechanism for linear positive magnetoresistance

A research group lead by Prof. Liu Enke from the Institute of Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has established a physical model of Berry-curvature-dominated linear positive magnetoresistance (LPMR), providing ...

Astrobiology Oct 6, 2022

How should the world's governments respond if we detect an alien civilization?

Science fiction is the realm where people traditionally wrestle with the idea of contact with an ETI (Extraterrestrial Intelligence.) But now, those discussions are migrating from science fiction into more serious realms. ...

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