(PhysOrg.com) -- When you order components to build a new computer you don't really give a lot of thought to the box that they come in. You throw it out and keep what is inside. Then, ironically, you go out and get another ...
Punishing two-year droughts like the record-breaking one that gripped Central Europe from 2018 to 2019 could become much more frequent if the region fails to curb greenhouse gas emissions, researchers said Thursday, affecting ...
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(AP) -- The global output of heat-trapping carbon dioxide jumped by the biggest amount on record, the U.S. Department of Energy calculated, a sign of how feeble the world's efforts are at slowing man-made global warming.
Environment
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The formation of lithium dendrites is still a mystery, but materials engineers study the conditions that enable dendrites and how to stop them.
Materials Science
Jan 24, 2020
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Human activity is almost certainly the cause of climate change and global sea levels could rise by several feet by the end of the century, according to an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report leaked to ...
Environment
Aug 21, 2013
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An international team of researchers has built a model that shows the possible simultaneous impact of global warming on agriculture and marine fisheries. In their paper published in the journal Science Advances, the group ...
The economic benefits of illegal immigration are greater than the costs of the public services utilized, according to an expert at Rice University's Baker Institute of Public Policy.
Economics & Business
May 18, 2020
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EU researchers have applied game theory in order to develop new ways of efficiently controlling complex systems such as heating and power.
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The recent IPCC report has made it clear that we need to change our energy supply from fossils to renewable energy if we want to avoid catastrophic climate change. This transition has to happen now and it has to happen fast.
Energy & Green Tech
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(Phys.org)—A team of researchers the University of Cambridge and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds has conducted a case study of a failed rat eradication project on an island in the South Pacific. In their paper ...
