In 2021, Health Canada announced a freeze on changing maximum residue limits (MRLs)—the maximum allowable pesticide residues acceptable under Canadian law. This decision followed substantial public outcry following Canada's ...
Agriculture
Nov 29, 2023
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Albert Einstein, best known for his work in relativity, won the Nobel Prize for his formula for the photoelectric effect, which often surprises modern physicists. He's not the only physicist whose Nobel award misaligns with ...
Quantum Physics
Nov 8, 2023
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New research has revealed that firms with female directors on the board, regardless of how many, improves the quality of corporate sustainability disclosures than those with no board representation.
Social Sciences
Oct 23, 2023
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The Nobel prize in economics was on Monday awarded to American economist Claudia Goldin for research that has helped bring understanding to the role of women in the labor market.
Other
Oct 9, 2023
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Swedish media say the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences may have announced the winners of this year's Nobel Prize in chemistry prematurely.
Other
Oct 4, 2023
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A committee set up by NASA has examined about 800 reports of unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs), or what most of us would call UFOs (unidentified flying objects). NASA defines these events as sightings "that cannot be ...
Space Exploration
Sep 18, 2023
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The UN's cultural agency UNESCO said Monday its experts recommended giving Australia more time to boost protection of the Great Barrier Reef which the organization's World Heritage Committee has threatened to declare "in ...
Ecology
Jul 31, 2023
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In a significant milestone for Antarctic research, detailed and extensive information on ice thickness and bed topography is now available for the first time in a centralized and standardized format.
Earth Sciences
Jul 18, 2023
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The ten-year coaching ban handed down this week by Athletics New Zealand to national pole vault coach Jeremy McColl is merely the latest in a long line of investigations to reveal the failure of sports organizations to protect ...
Social Sciences
Jul 7, 2023
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States' to-do lists just got a little longer: Decide how—or whether—to oversee building, planting and water quality in some wetland areas.
Environment
Jun 19, 2023
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