The 25 happiest US city park systems, ranked by scientists
Feeling unhappy? Go find a city park—the bigger the better—and try taking a walk outdoors.
Social Sciences
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Where mathematics and a social perspective meet data
Community structure, including relationships between and within groups, is foundational to our understanding of the world around us. New research by mathematics and statistics professor Kenneth Berenhaut, along with former ...
Mathematics
Jan 28, 2022
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New computational method opens window into immune cell behavior
Immune cells have many jobs to do: Some identify infected cells and eliminate them. Others help rein in inflammation to prevent damage to healthy tissue. And many are critical components of cancer treatment. Researchers know ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 24, 2021
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Climate change influences river flow
Climate change is affecting the water balance of our planet: depending on the region and the time of year, this can influence the amount of water in rivers potentially resulting in more flooding or drought. River flow is ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 11, 2021
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Fear of stricter regulations spurs gun sales after mass shootings, new analysis suggests
It's commonly known that gun sales go up after a mass shooting, but two competing hypotheses have been put forth to explain why that's the case: is it because people fear more violence and want to protect themselves, or is ...
Social Sciences
Aug 11, 2020
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Bethe strings experimentally observed
Ninety years ago, the physicist Hans Bethe postulated that unusual patterns, so-called Bethe strings, appear in certain magnetic solids. Now, an international team has succeeded in experimentally detecting such Bethe strings ...
General Physics
Apr 7, 2020
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Machine learning to scale up the quantum computer
,,Quantum computers are expected to offer tremendous computational power for complex problems –currently intractable even on supercomputers—in the areas of drug design, data science, astronomy and materials chemistry ...
Quantum Physics
Mar 17, 2020
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Researchers develop new methods for studying materials at the smallest possible scale
Scientists around the world are interested in developing new materials to help people live more sustainable and healthy lives, but the quest to produce these materials requires detailed knowledge of the mysterious structures ...
Materials Science
Feb 27, 2020
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Monitoring intermediates in CO2 conversion to formate by metal catalyst
Plants take in energy from sunlight to transform atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) into sugars and then other materials for growth and metabolic functions. Mimicking this photochemical reaction to efficiently convert CO2 into ...
Materials Science
Jan 29, 2020
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When human expertise improves the work of machines
Machine learning algorithms can sometimes do a better job with a little help from human expertise, at least in the field of materials science.
Materials Science
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