The Brazilian Amazon recorded 13,489 wildfires in the first half of the year, the worst figure in 20 years, satellite data revealed Monday.
Environment
Jul 2, 2024
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New research shows removing data caps to cell phone usage may not only reduce digital inequality but might increase education data consumption by disadvantaged populations.
Social Sciences
Jun 26, 2024
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Non-Indigenous scientists increasingly realize that Indigenous data are key to solving today's environmental challenges.
Plants & Animals
Jun 24, 2024
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Researchers have developed a new 3D method that can be used to track fast-moving objects at unprecedented high speeds. The real-time tracking approach, which is based on single-pixel imaging, could be used to improve autonomous ...
Optics & Photonics
Jun 21, 2024
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The ancestors of Alaska Native people began using local copper sources to craft intricate tools roughly 1,000 years ago. Over one-third of all copper objects archaeologists have found in this region were excavated at a single ...
Archaeology
Jun 19, 2024
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Will it rain tomorrow or will it be sunny? Better data and more computing power have made weather forecasts more accurate.
Environment
May 22, 2024
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Few things in nature are as predictable as ocean tides. Driven by the moon's and sun's gravitational pull, these persistent, short-period, and large-magnitude phenomena are apparent in nearly all types of oceanographic and ...
Earth Sciences
May 20, 2024
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Within the Biodiversity Community Integrated Knowledge Library (BiCIKL) project, 14 European institutions from ten countries, spent the last three years elaborating on services and high-tech digital tools, in order to improve ...
Ecology
May 14, 2024
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More compassion = a better relationship. This is an obvious rule of thumb for couples. But it doesn't apply to everyone, as a study shows. Some people prefer to do without it.
Social Sciences
May 8, 2024
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Lonni Besançon devotes evenings and weekends to rarely appreciated sanitation work. By examining scientific articles after they are published and exposing shortcomings, he has made himself an enemy of both researchers and ...
Education
Apr 30, 2024
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