As private firms and governments struggle to fill jobs—and with the cost of college too high for many students—employers and elected officials are searching for alternative ways for people to get good jobs without having ...
Economics & Business
Mar 20, 2024
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From solar panels on our roofs to the new OLED TV screens, many everyday electronic devices simply wouldn't work without the interaction between light and the materials that make up semiconductors. A new category of semiconductors ...
Condensed Matter
Mar 19, 2024
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Organic electronics is a field that has garnered significant interest in academic and industrial circles due to its potential applications in OLEDs and organic solar cells, offering advantages such as lightweight design, ...
Analytical Chemistry
Mar 19, 2024
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Namibia's legendary fairy circles are mysterious, circular, bald patches in the dry grasslands on the edge of the Namib Desert. Their formation has been researched for decades and has recently been the subject of much debate. ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 19, 2024
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Biomass burning, including wildfires and residential heating, emits a variety of air pollutants and has a series of negative impacts on the environment.
Environment
Mar 19, 2024
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Plant-soil-microbe interactions play a crucial role in processes that take place in the soil directly around plant roots, or the rhizosphere, and these processes contribute to nutrient cycling and metabolite turnover in the ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 18, 2024
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Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel have identified a yeast that could be used to prevent invasive candidiasis, a major cause of death in hospitalized and immunocompromised patients. The study, published ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 18, 2024
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A new approach is gaining momentum in European agriculture: a "third way" that lies between conventional production and organic farming systems. Here farmers must forego synthetic pesticides only—which is simpler to implement ...
Agriculture
Mar 18, 2024
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Even though exoplanet science has advanced significantly in the last decade or two, we're still in an unfortunate situation. Scientists can only make educated guesses about which exoplanets may be habitable. Even the closest ...
Astrobiology
Mar 18, 2024
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Over the past 20 years, life science research has come to realize that all living beings—from the simplest animal and plant organisms to humans—live in close association with a large number of microorganisms. Together ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 18, 2024
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