When thunderstorms rumble overhead, weak electrical discharges—called corona—can occur on tree leaves. A new study found coronas create large amounts of atmospheric chemicals that could impact air quality around forests, ...
Environment
Oct 19, 2022
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According to the Rev. Dennis Hutson, people used to love the taste of Allensworth's water.
Earth Sciences
Sep 19, 2022
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Managers need to make a consistent impression in order to motivate and inspire people, and that applies even more to video communication than to other digital channels. That is the result of a study by researchers at Karlsruhe ...
Social Sciences
Aug 9, 2022
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Rice researchers set up a Microsoft HoloLens as a mixed-reality sensor to feed VegSense, their application to measure understory vegetation, plant life that grows between the forest canopy and floor.
Plants & Animals
Aug 1, 2022
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A new communication system has been developed to exchange symmetric keys between parties in order to encrypt messages so that they cannot be read by third parties. In cooperation with Deutsche Telekom, researchers led by ...
Quantum Physics
May 25, 2022
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Researchers at the University of Gothenburg have developed several new varieties of wheat that tolerate soils with higher salt concentrations. After having mutated a wheat variety from Bangladesh, they now have a wheat with ...
Plants & Animals
May 20, 2022
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Wrapping potato seeds in biodegradable paper made from unusable parts of banana plants reduces the infestation and harmful effects of a nasty plant pathogen—a worm called the potato cyst nematode—and sharply increases ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 8, 2022
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School field trips have been part of the educational experience for children across the nation for decades. While many school administrators believe there's intrinsic value in letting students develop socially with out-of-classroom ...
Education
Feb 18, 2022
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If one of your parents majored in a STEM (science, technology, engineering or math) field, there's a better chance you'll also major and persist in a STEM field, according to a new Portland State University study.
Social Sciences
Dec 7, 2021
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Quantum key distribution (QKD) is a method used for secure or secret key exchanges between two remote users. Using secure communication, cyberscientists ultimately aim to establish a global quantum network. Existing field ...
