Dr. Luciano Zuccarello grew up in the shadow of Mount Etna, an active volcano on the Italian island of Sicily. Farms and orchards ring the lower slopes of the volcano, where the fertile soil is ideal for agriculture. But ...
Earth Sciences
May 5, 2020
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Food banks will struggle to cope during the COVID-19 pandemic and vulnerable households should be given cash grants to buy food instead, a group of leading academics have suggested.
Social Sciences
Apr 7, 2020
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University of Central Florida researchers are helping to close the gap separating human and machine minds.
Nanophysics
Feb 14, 2020
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Quantum information processing promises to be much faster and more secure than what today's supercomputers can achieve, but doesn't exist yet because its building blocks, qubits, are notoriously unstable.
Quantum Physics
Jul 16, 2019
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Advances in communication technology have had a major impact in all sorts of industries, but perhaps none bigger than in education. Now, anyone from around the world can listen live to a Nobel Prize laureate lecture or earn ...
Software
Jun 14, 2019
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Since the beginning of archaeology, researchers have combed the globe searching for evidence of the first domesticated crops. Painstakingly extracting charred bits of barley, wheat, millet and rice from the remains of ancient ...
Archaeology
Feb 6, 2019
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A computer virus hit newspaper printing plants in Los Angeles and at Tribune Publishing newspapers across the country.
Security
Dec 30, 2018
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Robert W. Taylor, who was instrumental in creating the internet and the modern personal computer, has died. He was 85.
Internet
Apr 15, 2017
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Spencer Kent stands nervously in front of Team D.R.A.D.I.S.' booth at Rice University's annual Engineering Design Showcase. Judging begins in about 10 minutes, and his teammate Galen Schmidt is frantically typing computer ...
Engineering
May 4, 2015
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When electronic states in materials are excited during dynamic processes, interesting phenomena such as electrical charge transfer can take place on quadrillionth-of-a-second, or femtosecond, timescales. Numerical simulations ...
General Physics
Feb 18, 2015
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