From colleagues chatting about their weekends or having intense phone conversations, to email alerts and loud tapping on keyboards, the evidence that open-plan offices take a toll on our well-being continues to mount. There's ...
Social Sciences
Sep 14, 2023
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In the past two and a half years, two next-generation telescopes have been sent to space: NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and the ESA's Euclid Observatory. Before the decade is over, they will be joined by NASA's ...
Astrobiology
Aug 23, 2023
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We all know that talking and listening in large, noisy spaces (like restaurants, shopping centers or concert venues) is tough. Trying to piece together snippets of conversation with background noise is frustrating, exhausting ...
Education
Aug 9, 2023
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A team of computer and electrical engineers at the University of California, Santa Barbara, working with several colleagues from California Institute of Technology and another pair from Anello Photonics has developed a first-of-its-kind ...
Many marine organisms, such as fish, marine mammals and crustaceans, produce and use sound to navigate, reproduce, detect prey and avoid predators. However, anthropogenic sound, for example from the construction and operation ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 9, 2023
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As Swedish cities are densified at a fast pace, there is now construction very close to roads and thoroughfares—land that was considered unthinkable for development just a decade ago.
Social Sciences
May 19, 2023
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Imagine … eco-tourists enjoying views of undisturbed whales and dolphins, watching them doing what comes naturally.
Plants & Animals
Apr 21, 2023
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Lizards may be small, with only a single hearing bonelet compared to our three, and without earflaps, but their hearing is typically good. Most lizards can hear frequencies between 100 and 5,000 Hz (although they are most ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 29, 2023
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Scientists at the European Food Safety Agency on Tuesday recommended ending the use of cages to raise broiler chickens and laying hens in order to improve the animals' welfare.
Veterinary medicine
Feb 21, 2023
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Oceans are full of sound. Waves, earthquakes and calving icebergs all contribute to the underwater soundscape. But so do human activities, and this can be a problem for marine life as it can seriously affect their physiology, ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 17, 2023
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