For the past 19 years, Felix Adebayo has called Balarabe Musa Crescent in Victoria Island, an affluent area within Nigeria's bustling Lagos city, his home.
Environment
Nov 16, 2023
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Mainstream conversations about artificial intelligence (AI) have been dominated by a few key concerns, such as whether superintelligent AI will wipe us out, or whether AI will steal our jobs. But we've paid less attention ...
Environment
Jul 19, 2023
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Few of us realize that listening to music on Spotify or watching Netflix or YouTube releases CO2 in the process. Online services use data stored on servers in data centers, and they guzzle energy. Physicist Remko Fermin researched ...
Superconductivity
Nov 30, 2022
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Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have found that graphene-based heat pipes can help solve the problems of cooling electronics and power systems used in avionics, data centers and other power electronics.
Nanophysics
Dec 3, 2020
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Much of the 'memory' of the world and all our digital activities are based on media, hard disks, where the information is encoded thanks to magnetism, by orienting the spin of electrons in one direction or the other.
General Physics
Sep 29, 2020
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Nine out of ten employees who have worked at home during lockdown would like to continue doing so in some capacity, research suggests.
Economics & Business
Aug 28, 2020
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Changes to water masses which are stored on the continents can be detected with the help of satellites. The data sets on the Earth's gravitational field which are required for this, stem from the GRACE and GRACE-FO satellite ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 27, 2020
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The amount of energy used for cloud computing, which contributes to climate change, needs to be more transparent says an Imperial researcher.
Environment
Jul 14, 2020
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The East African Rift System (EARS) is a newly forming plate tectonic boundary at which the African continent is being separated into several plates. This is not a clean break. The system includes several rift arms and one ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 8, 2020
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Modern society has given significant attention to the promises of the digital economy over the past decade. But it has given little attention to its negative environmental footprint.
Environment
Dec 10, 2019
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