The installation of small-scale irrigation systems in communities in Mali led to lasting increases in agricultural productivity, decreases in local child malnutrition, and decreases in local conflict, providing resilience ...
Agriculture
Feb 14, 2024
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Since the 1960s, scientists have discovered more than a dozen fundamental particles. They all have fit perfectly into the theoretical framework known as the Standard Model, the best description physicists have of the subatomic ...
General Physics
Feb 12, 2024
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Government officials whose job it is to clean the nation's worst smog from Southern California's air should be embarrassed. Instead of working together to cut lung-damaging ozone pollution, they are wasting time pointing ...
Environment
Feb 8, 2024
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Management consulting revenue in Australia has grown from less than A$33 billion in 2010 to more than $47 billion in 2023. The increasing use of consultants, as well as the PwC scandal, highlights serious issues with vested ...
Environment
Feb 2, 2024
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Particle physicists have detected a novel decay of the Higgs boson for the first time, revealing a slight discrepancy in the predictions of the Standard Model and perhaps pointing to new physics beyond it. The findings are ...
There's an incredibly ancient black hole out there that's challenging astronomers to explain how it could exist only 400 million years after the Big Bang. It's at the heart of a galaxy called GN-z11. Astronomers using JWST ...
Astronomy
Jan 23, 2024
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A research team has succeeded in implementing a distributed quantum sensor that can measure multiple spatially distributed physical quantities with high precision beyond the standard quantum limit with few resources. Their ...
Quantum Physics
Jan 22, 2024
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Global navigation satellite systems (GNSSs) provide invaluable positioning data for countless applications, from everyday navigation to scientific research. Tropospheric delays, caused by the refractive properties of the ...
Planetary Sciences
Jan 22, 2024
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Universities around the world can preserve academic integrity from the threat of artificial intelligence (AI) by resisting corporate pressure and prioritizing ethics, according to a new paper by researchers from Charles Darwin ...
Education
Jan 18, 2024
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With no date in sight for when it will be safe to drink tap water again on the island of St. Croix, officials in the U.S. Virgin Islands announced Wednesday night that they would distribute water filters and provide free ...
Environment
Jan 18, 2024
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