Eliminating air pollution emissions from energy-related activities in the United States would prevent more than 50,000 premature deaths each year and provide more than $600 billion in benefits each year from avoided illness ...
Environment
May 16, 2022
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Future quantum computers are expected not only to solve particularly tricky computing tasks, but also to be connected to a network for the secure exchange of data. In principle, quantum gates could be used for these purposes. ...
Quantum Physics
May 13, 2022
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Switching to low carbon fuels for transportation, cooking, heating, power generation and other needs would help fight climate change and also reduce racial and ethnic disparities in exposure to air pollution, according to ...
Environment
May 13, 2022
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A new University of Michigan study that used fossil oyster shells as paleothermometers found the shallow sea that covered much of western North America 95 million years ago was as warm as today's tropics.
Earth Sciences
May 10, 2022
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Humans don't know what they're missing under the surface of a busy shipping channel in the "cruise capital of the world." Just below the keels of massive ships, an underwater camera provides a live feed from another world, ...
Ecology
May 9, 2022
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For the first time, the Canadian census gave a picture of how many cisgender men and women, transgender and non-binary people live in Canada.
Social Sciences
May 5, 2022
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A new study from the Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates reveals that new additions of vertebrate specimens to natural history collections are declining precipitously. The authors suggest that it is vital to maintain ...
Ecology
Apr 29, 2022
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Storytelling is an ancient human trait. We were perhaps making manifest our imaginings even before we had the spoken word. In the modern world, stories are as important to us as they ever were and are crucial to many human ...
Social Sciences
Apr 26, 2022
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A survey of public opinion in China conducted by researchers at Rice University, the National University of Singapore and the University of British Columbia shows the country's perceptions of the U.S. plummeted during the ...
Social Sciences
Apr 26, 2022
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To keep the planet from warming more than 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, most countries, including the U.S., have goals to reach net zero by 2050. Net zero means that all greenhouse gas emissions produced are counterbalanced ...
Environment
Apr 22, 2022
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