A newly released Android app will turn your smartphone into an instrument for crowdsourced science. Leave it by your window each night with your satnav positioning turned on and your phone will record small variations in ...
Space Exploration
Mar 23, 2022
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Going without food and heating has become a routine part of daily life for families on low incomes, according to the latest findings from the COVID Realities project.
Economics & Business
Mar 22, 2022
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Every year at Crufts, the UK's largest dog show, canines and their people can participate in all manner of exciting competitions. Whether heelwork-to-music (essentially dancing with dogs) or obedience, or the high-speed relay ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 15, 2022
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Think of the last time you were at a birthday party and the obligatory rendition of "Happy Birthday" began. If you're like most people, you probably joined in without a second thought. Would you be surprised to know that ...
Social Sciences
Mar 8, 2022
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"Cheetahs have become faster and faster because they have realized that it is necessary"—this statement should make teachers sit up and take notice when they teach the principles of evolution. Many students have incorrect ...
Education
Feb 4, 2022
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The laws of physics underlying everyday life are, at one level of description, completely known, and can be summarized in a single elegant—if quite complex—equation. That's the claim physicist Sean Carroll, an SFI Fractal ...
Quantum Physics
Jan 17, 2022
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First year business and economics students all over the world may soon be using Netflix's global smash hit series "Squid Game" to learn complex economic theories.
Economics & Business
Jan 7, 2022
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Could mindfulness change the way we treat people of other races? White people who received training in mindfulness meditation were three times more likely to help a Black person in staged scenarios than those who were not ...
Social Sciences
Nov 18, 2021
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Micro-electro-mechanical devices (MEMS) are based on the integration of mechanical and electrical components on a micrometer scale. We all use them continuously in our everyday life: For example, in our mobile phones there ...
Nanomaterials
Nov 9, 2021
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Everyday life comes with its own set of inconveniences: traffic jams, endless lines at the grocery store and extended customer service hold times with annoying background music playing. Wouldn't it be nice to avoid those ...
Social Sciences
Oct 18, 2021
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