High fertilizer prices could put an additional 100 million people at risk of undernourishment, a study suggests.
Economics & Business
Dec 23, 2022
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America is facing an affordable housing crunch—and it was getting worse even before the pandemic struck and eviscerated jobs and incomes.
Economics & Business
Jun 3, 2020
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Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Chemistry have engineered silicon nanowires that can convert sunlight into electricity by splitting water into oxygen and hydrogen gas, a greener ...
Nanophysics
Feb 17, 2023
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The promise of superconductivity for electrical power transmission and transportation has long been held back by high costs. Now researchers from the University of Houston and Germany have demonstrated a way to cut the cost ...
Superconductivity
Apr 24, 2023
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High prices may not deter wealthy people from buying unsustainable goods—instead, they might actually trigger those in the upper class to buy these products, according to a new study.
Social Sciences
May 27, 2022
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Gone are the days when living at home in your 20s was seen as an embarrassing sign of arrested development. Today, 63% of single adults between the ages of 20 and 29 live with their parents, as do just over half of 25- to ...
Social Sciences
Jan 18, 2019
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Billions of dollars lost each year as waste heat from industrial processes can be converted into electricity with a technology being developed at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Energy & Green Tech
May 16, 2011
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Drugs to treat cancer are often very expensive to produce, resulting in high costs for the patients who need them. Thanks to pathbreaking research by UCLA chemists, led by organic chemistry professor Ohyun Kwon, the price ...
Biochemistry
Nov 22, 2023
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As global temperatures continue to rise, India is grappling with increasingly severe heat waves. As early as April, many Indian cities, including New Delhi, the capital, have experienced record temperatures above 115 degrees ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 1, 2024
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Scientists at the Materials Research Center (MRC), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), have developed a new type of enzyme mimetic that can degrade toxic chemicals in industrial wastewater effectively in the presence of sunlight.
Bio & Medicine
Oct 3, 2023
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