Around 180 governments on Friday agreed on a new UN accord to regulate the export of plastic waste, some eight million tonnes of which ends up in the oceans each year, organisers said.
Environment
May 10, 2019
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Uber shares skidded Friday in a disappointing Wall Street debut following a massive public offering from the global ride-hailing giant.
Business
May 10, 2019
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Wildfires can have dramatic impacts on Western landscapes and communities, but human values determine whether the changes caused by fire are desired or dreaded. This is the simple—but often overlooked—message from a collaborative ...
Environment
May 10, 2019
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Two sniffling chimps could be one too many for a wild chimpanzee community susceptible to respiratory disease outbreaks, report Morris Animal Foundation-funded researchers at the University of Minnesota. The team's findings ...
Veterinary medicine
May 10, 2019
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Children living in food-insecure households are more likely to attend school on Fridays if they're participating in a food-distribution program that provides them with backpacks of meals for the weekend, researchers at the ...
Social Sciences
May 10, 2019
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A Navy scientist has re-engineered the software that allows long-endurance drones to powerlessly climb into the sky on bubbles of warm air.
Engineering
May 10, 2019
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I'm a tech reviewer, so I think people expect me to carry the newest iPhone—at least that's what I tell my wife.
Consumer & Gadgets
May 10, 2019
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In strongly correlated materials such as cuprate high-temperature superconductors, superconductivity can be controlled either by changing the number of electrons or by changing the kinetic energy, or transfer energy, of electrons ...
Superconductivity
May 10, 2019
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The smallest pixels yet created—a million times smaller than those in smartphones, made by trapping particles of light under tiny rocks of gold—could be used for new types of large-scale flexible displays, big enough ...
Nanophysics
May 10, 2019
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Many scientists today have embraced social media as tools to communicate their research and to engage broader audiences in scientific discovery and its outcomes. But the rise of the "social media scientist" has also led communicators ...
Social Sciences
May 10, 2019
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