Many managers are currently seeking a balance between digital and face-to-face communication. A recent study from the University of Eastern Finland published in Information Technology & People shows that top IT industry managers ...
Economics & Business
Jun 5, 2024
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Humans love the coast. But we love it to death, so much so we've destroyed valuable coastal habitat—in the case of some types of habitat, most of it has gone.
Ecology
Apr 22, 2024
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At the heart of global internet connectivity, optical communications form an indispensable foundation. Key to this foundation are optical isolators, created by combining multiple components.
Optics & Photonics
Jan 18, 2024
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Synthetic, non-biodegradable plastics are major sources of environmental pollution and have prompted rising interest in sustainable, biodegradable alternatives derived from natural polymers. "Tara gum," derived from the seeds ...
Polymers
Jan 15, 2024
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Engineers at NASA have completed an important milestone in developing the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) spacecraft. It's now moving from development and design to the assembly, testing, and integration ...
Space Exploration
Dec 5, 2023
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In nature, microbes exist in complex relationships with large numbers of other microbial species in communities called microbiomes. The complexity of these microbiomes makes it difficult for scientists to study and predict ...
Ecology
Nov 9, 2023
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Researchers have developed a new method to analyze facial expressions, as part of efforts to better understand animal communication.
Plants & Animals
Oct 5, 2023
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A new paper in Landscape and Urban Planning examines policies to advance urban agriculture that address the food-energy-water (FEW) nexus, the complex relationships among the flows of food, energy and water in cities.
Ecology
Aug 16, 2023
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An exciting prospect in modern optics is to exploit patterns of light—how the light looks in its many degrees of freedom—often referred to as "structured light." Each distinct pattern could form an encoding alphabet for ...
Optics & Photonics
Feb 7, 2023
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The world's major writing systems have tended to simplify over time, with a notable exception: New research shows that the Chinese writing system has become increasingly complex over the course of its 3000-year history.
Other
Nov 23, 2022
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