When you next bite into a chicken sandwich, consider this: 2,400 of these birds are being slaughtered somewhere in the world every second. From street stalls in Mumbai to supermarkets in Beijing, chicken has become the world's ...
Economics & Business
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Although all children have a right to education, many arrival centers for refugees offer little or no access to education, concludes a study by Johanna Funck (University of Bremen) and Markus Ciesielski (htw saar).
Education
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At the heart of every camera is a sensor, whether that sensor is a collection of light-detecting pixels or a strip of 35-millimeter film. But what happens when you want to take a picture of something so small that the sensor ...
Nanophysics
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People often see science as a world apart: cool, rational and untouched by persuasion or performance. In this view, scientists simply discover truth, and truth speaks for itself.
Economics & Business
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The water that flows down irrigation canals to some of the West's biggest expanses of farmland comes courtesy of the federal government for a very low price—even, in some cases, for free.
Agriculture
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Doenjang is a traditional Korean fermented soybean paste made from meju—naturally fermented soybean blocks—mixed with salt and aged through long-term fermentation. Unlike Japanese miso, Korean doenjang does not use koji; ...
Molecular & Computational biology
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A climate study led by The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), in collaboration with an international research team, reveals that under a high-emission scenario, the Northern Hemisphere summer monsoons ...
Earth Sciences
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As businesses navigate increasingly dynamic markets, artificial intelligence (AI) is emerging not just as a tool, but as a strategic driver of marketing agility and firm performance.
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The holiday season sparks a significant increase in consumer spending. This year, Black Friday alone saw consumers shell out a record US $11.8 billion. It's the time of year when many Americans make purchases to decorate ...
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Carl Sagan famously said that "We're all made of star stuff." But he didn't elaborate on how that actually happened. Yes, many of the molecules in our bodies could only have been created in massive supernovae explosions—hence ...
Planetary Sciences
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