At least half of American families have been giving money to charity every year—but that fraction had been declining prior to the global pandemic.
Social Sciences
May 7, 2020
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Effective governance and investment decisions need to be informed by reliable data, not only about where groundwater exists, but also the rate at which groundwater is replenished. For the first time using ground measurements, ...
Environment
Feb 16, 2021
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Researchers in the UK have developed a new method for evaluating plutonium workers' historical internal radiation exposure in a study funded by the National Institute for Health Research.
General Physics
May 21, 2019
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Black carbon, commonly known as soot, is a significant contributor to global warming and is strongly linked to adverse health outcomes. Produced by the incomplete combustion of fuels—emitted from large trucks, trains, and ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 23, 2019
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Killing animals for fun is an activity which divides opinion. It can also be a highly emotive issue, with high profile cases like the death of Cecil the lion sparking global media coverage and outcry. There were even calls ...
Ecology
Oct 10, 2019
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Fujitsu Semiconductor America (FSA) today extended its growing portfolio of Ferroelectric memory products with the introduction of a new Ferroelectric Random Access Memory (FRAM) product series that features a wide voltage ...
Electronics & Semiconductors
Mar 5, 2012
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Increasingly, exotic animals and plants are being intentionally and unintentionally introduced into Europe from areas where they naturally occur. In Germany alone, more than one thousand invasive alien species (IAS) are registered. ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 7, 2020
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Ever since humans began committing their view of the world to flat slabs of rock and papyrus, we had a sense that our mental maps are laid out in much the same way. However, our mental maps are nothing like paper maps. Humans ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 13, 2021
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Researchers at the Barcelona Expert Center (BEC) of the Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM-CSIC) have proved that satellite-derived salinity improves marine circulation prediction in the Arctic, which, as in the rest of the ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 25, 2022
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A program to advance the discovery of new polymers has been developed by a team of interdisciplinary researchers across King's Faculty of Natural, Mathematical and Engineering Sciences. The software, called PySoftK, uses ...
Polymers
May 15, 2023
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