A river in the foothills of the Himalayas separates tigers and farmers and nurtures both wildlife and agriculture. But now that the river is drying up, conflicts between the two are increasing, endangering the habitat of ...
Ecology
Jun 19, 2024
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Domestic soybeans serve as an important source of healthy edible plant oil and high-quality plant protein in our food culture. In addition to the well-known components of oil (approximately 20%), protein (approximately 40%), ...
Molecular & Computational biology
May 8, 2024
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The United States will soon launch its first spacecraft to attempt a soft lunar landing since the Apollo era, in a historic collaboration with the private sector—but not everyone is celebrating.
Space Exploration
Jan 5, 2024
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In a study conducted in NYC during the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers found that air quality policies focusing on reducing pollutant emissions from the transportation sector have made significant strides. However, the study ...
Environment
Jul 21, 2023
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In late 2019, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) published its "Economic Performance of the Airline Industry" report. It contained a 2020 forecast of 4.1 percent growth in global air traffic demand and net ...
Social Sciences
Aug 4, 2020
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Long-range transboundary transport of air pollutants (e.g. ozone) is one of the important environmental concerns globally. Previous studies on trans-Pacific transport of air pollutants have been mainly focused on the influence ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 16, 2020
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For the first time in the agency's history, NASA has initiated a new effort to enable NASA personnel to fly on future commercial suborbital spaceflights. NASA's Flight Opportunities program has successfully worked with emerging ...
Space Exploration
Jun 25, 2020
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Biophysicists from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and the University of Groningen in the Netherlands have visualized a nearly complete transport cycle of the mammalian glutamate transporter homologue from ...
Bio & Medicine
Apr 16, 2020
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Can scientists understand human behavior enough to figure out what drives the choices you make? In fact, it's called "decision science," and it's something that Anna Spurlock, a behavioral economist with Lawrence Berkeley ...
Economics & Business
Mar 13, 2020
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Computing with words is a computational method where the objects of computation are words and propositions drawn from a natural language rather than the ones and zeroes of binary. Computing with words is perhaps what makes ...
Machine learning & AI
Apr 3, 2019
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