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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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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A novel, hybrid part-human, part-machine visual system that uses a simple mobile phone camera has been developed to search for evidence of past or present life in planetary analogue sites on Earth. Patrick McGuire from the ...
Space Exploration
Sep 10, 2013
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The market for solar modules is highly competitive. For this reason, companies must save on costs, such as by using a new process. It embeds the cells twice as fast into their protective plastic sheathing – and therefore ...
Energy & Green Tech
Apr 3, 2013
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Some questions about our own planet are best answered by looking someplace else entirely… in the case of impact craters and when, how and how often they were formed, that someplace can be found shining down on us nearly ...
Space Exploration
Jan 10, 2013
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A computer model called SIMONE, for Simulator for Interruptions and Message Overload in Network Environments described in the latest issue of the International Journal of Simulation and Process Modelling, could help solve ...
Computer Sciences
Mar 6, 2009
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I have been researching the psychology of conspiracy beliefs for seven years now and people often ask me why people believe in them. This is not a simple question.
Social Sciences
Mar 21, 2024
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Earlier this week, the Ontario government announced that they would introduce legislation that would require organizations to include salary ranges in job postings. Recently, the University of Waterloo made the salary field ...
Economics & Business
Nov 9, 2023
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A new publication from Opto-Electronic Advances discusses spatiotemporal manipulation of femtosecond light pulses for on-chip devices.
Optics & Photonics
Sep 12, 2022
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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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