New data provided by studying the beluga whales at Georgia Aquarium helps close a key information gap about how much food these whales need to thrive. The information will inform important management decisions for their counterparts ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 14, 2024
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In the future, smartphones, which almost everyone has, and smart speakers, 3.7 million installed in Japanese households, might save your life. Apart from daily-use features, these devices can read emergency messages aloud ...
General Physics
Nov 18, 2021
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To reduce wealth inequality without diminishing the economic performance of a country, a policy package of bequest taxes and land value taxes could be the optimal solution. Such a policy package would, in fact, have a strong ...
Economics & Business
Mar 23, 2018
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Engineers only get one shot at making a spacecraft work as intended—or at least they only get one shot in space. In the preparation leading up to that final, climactic moment, there are typically thousands of hours of tests ...
Space Exploration
Dec 3, 2021
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The red palm weevil can devastate the valuable date palm plantations of the Middle East. Yet, date producers are still hesitant to apply new technologies that can control this invasive pest. A recent ICARDA study reveals ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 25, 2024
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Negotiators in Geneva might not have brought the conflict in Syria to an end last week, but work recently published by an academic from Radboud University in the Netherlands explains how the 2006–10 drought contributed ...
Environment
Feb 27, 2014
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Sub-Saharan Africa accounts for 13.5% of the global population but less than 1% of global research output. In 2008, Africa produced 27,000 published papers – the same number as the Netherlands.
Economics & Business
Sep 6, 2018
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America's economy will hum along its path of moderate growth, adding 4.7 million jobs through the end of next year, say University of Michigan economists.
Economics & Business
Jun 19, 2013
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Researchers have worked out how to improve the assessment of progress towards limiting global heating to 2 degrees C above preindustrial levels.
Earth Sciences
Apr 27, 2021
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Raising tenants' share in crop-sharing contracts between landlords and tenants in developing countries can boost agricultural output, by providing tenants with the right incentive to raise agriculture productivity. Bocconi ...
Environment
May 2, 2019
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