How do you spend each day? Researchers sought answers to that basic question from people of various ages living around the world. They report that on an average day, people spend more than a third of their time focused on ...
Social Sciences
Jun 13, 2023
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Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are the brightest millisecond-duration cosmic explosions in radio bands. Their unknown origin poses challenges for astronomy as well as physics.
Astronomy
May 11, 2023
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The Beatles famously sang, "Money can't buy me love," but married couples who manage their finances together may love each other longer, according to research from the Indiana University Kelley School of Business.
Social Sciences
May 4, 2023
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Scientists studying the supermassive black hole at the heart of the M87 galaxy have revealed the origins of the monster's powerful jet and imaged the jet and its source together for the first time. What's more, the observations ...
Astronomy
Apr 26, 2023
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Average crop yields in Africa are consistently far below expected, and one significant reason is the prevalence of counterfeit seeds whose germination rates are far lower than those of the genuine ones. The World Bank estimates ...
Biotechnology
Mar 22, 2023
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Scientists have discovered that the pace of groundwater depletion in California's Central Valley has accelerated dramatically during the drought as heavy agricultural pumping has drawn down aquifer levels to new lows and ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 27, 2022
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An artificial intelligence tool developed by researchers at UCL and Queen Mary University of London could help governments decide whether or not to bail out a bank in crisis by predicting if the intervention will save money ...
Mathematics
Nov 17, 2022
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A team of researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, working with a colleague from the State University of New Jersey, has developed a gel-based code-hiding system that uses combinations of water, light and heat to hide ...
Depending on where it's from, your next steak could come with a side of illegal deforestation.
Environment
Oct 18, 2022
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Former Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke and two other U.S.-based economists won the Nobel Prize in economics for research into bank failures—work that built on lessons learned in the Great Depression and helped shape ...
Economics & Business
Oct 10, 2022
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