Shark attacks decreased for the third consecutive year, falling to 57 unprovoked bites worldwide in 2020, compared with 64 bites in 2019 and 66 in 2018, according to the annual summary issued by the University of Florida's ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 2, 2021
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Three in 10 people in the U.K. do not have the necessary income to achieve a socially acceptable standard of living, according to a new report.
Economics & Business
Feb 1, 2021
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Theories were introduced as far back as the 1960s about the possible existence of superheavy elements. Their most long-lived nuclei could give rise to a so-called "island of stability" far beyond the element uranium. However, ...
General Physics
Jan 26, 2021
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A record number of wildflowers were found to be in bloom this winter, according to a new survey by the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland.
Plants & Animals
Jan 26, 2021
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A team of researchers from the U.K., Germany and Russia has used the unpredictable nature of quantum mechanics to create a device capable of generating truly random numbers. In their paper published in the journal Physical ...
Recently, the research team led by academician GUO Guangcan from the University of Science and Technology of China of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has made security analysis and improvement of source independent quantum ...
Quantum Physics
Jan 14, 2021
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Entomologist Akito Kawahara's message is straightforward: We can't live without insects. They're in trouble. And there's something all of us can do to help.
Ecology
Jan 12, 2021
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New research into this question shows that the second wave of an epidemic is very different if a population has a homogenous distribution of contacts, compared to the scenario of subpopulations with diverse number of contacts.
General Physics
Dec 23, 2020
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Nataliya Matveeva, Ivan Sterligov, and Maria Yudkevich have analyzed the research activity of universities participating in Russia's Academic Excellence Project 5-100. Overall, the quality of publications of these universities ...
Education
Dec 4, 2020
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Researchers at the University of York have created a new modified wheat variety that increases grain production by up to 12%.
Plants & Animals
Nov 25, 2020
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