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A new study warns that unless atmospheric carbon is reduced immediately, future summers will become even hotter and future wildfires even more destruc...
The intrinsic information-seeking impulse we call curiosity is independent of extrinsic rewards, such as food or mating opportunities. Curiosity is pu...
On April 29, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Louisiana's voting map on the basis that the state had illegally used race as a consideration when it...
Ph.D. student Hanne Kloster at the University of Agder (UiA) is behind the first Norwegian study to look at three tick-borne diseases in dogs simultan...
In a process analogous to how solids melt into liquids, the electrons in many different metals form crystal-like patterns that can deform and melt, op...
The University of Hong Kong (HKU) has spearheaded an international research collaboration to develop a pioneering theoretical framework that deciphers...
Readers don't need false information to get the wrong idea. In the online attention economy, UC San Diego research finds that making science more clic...
A research team has developed a quantitative policy evaluation framework for assessing how cities can attract startups while maintaining high living s...
Why do organizations often return to old patterns even after leaders invest in culture change, training, and transformation programs? A conceptual ana...
A nanocrystal is an extraordinarily tiny piece of material—composed of anywhere from a few to a few thousand atoms—in which atoms are arranged in a pr...
Every dollar spent on forest fuel treatments saves about $3.75 in wildfire damages, according to a new study, led by researchers at the University of...
A devastating earthquake in Myanmar is giving scientists new insight into how major quakes start, spread, and grow. The findings could improve risk es...
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