You're probably reading this article on a device assembled in Asia, using materials shipped there from all around the world. After it was made, your phone or laptop most likely traveled to your country on a huge ship powered ...
Environment
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The problem of the disadvantage gap—also known as the attainment gap—is a persistent one in education in England. It refers to how children from certain groups, such as those from poorer backgrounds, ethnic minorities ...
Economics & Business
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In the past two decades, a slide from democracy toward autocracy has been a consistent global theme.
Social Sciences
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Research teams from USTC have realized a high-performance single-photon source with an efficiency beyond the scalable linear optical quantum computing loss tolerance threshold for the first time. Led by Prof. Pan Jianwei, ...
Optics & Photonics
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When you think of termites, you probably don't imagine them aboard yachts, cabin cruisers, sailboats or other watercraft floating across oceans.
Ecology
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The winter growth period for sea ice in the Arctic Ocean is now over, with levels at a record low. The winter ice extent on 21 March 2025 was lower than at any time since continuous satellite recording began in 1979.
Earth Sciences
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When U.S. President Donald Trump imposed sweeping new tariffs on imported goods on April 2, 2025—upending global trade and sending markets into a tailspin—he presented the move as a response to a crisis. In an executive ...
Economics & Business
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Can your accent make you sound aggressive? Exeter City football manager Gary Caldwell thinks so—he blamed his Scottish accent for his being sent off the pitch for the second time this season.
Social Sciences
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In the Royal Greenwich Observatory Archives at Cambridge University Library, one man's papers take up a staggering 110 meters of shelving. In a new article from Isis: the Journal of the History of Science Society, "George ...
Economics & Business
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Mollusks possess sturdy protective shells, thanks to their internal nacre structure. Nacre, the natural nanocomposite, demonstrates outstanding mechanical properties through both high strength and high toughness. Nacre, therefore, ...
Analytical Chemistry
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