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Flexible working could help more women lead family businesses, researchers say
Digital workplace innovation could help more women entrepreneurs become leaders of family firms by making it easier to balance work and family life, according t...
Light's hidden properties save quantum information from the chaos of bad weather
For years, researchers have tried to harness the "twist" of light to transmit data. This property describes how light spirals as it travels forward, and because...
Volcanic eruptions in Pacific Ring of Fire may have cooled Earth for centuries
For around 12,000 years, the Earth has been in the Holocene epoch, a warmer period following a glacial period. During this epoch, however, there have been aroun...
Advances in AI-designed base editors pave the way for next-generation gene therapy
A joint research team led by Daesik Kim, a professor in the Department of Medicine at Sungkyunkwan University, along with Yong-Sub Kim, a professor at the Unive...
Satellite imagery could protect trees from devastating moth outbreaks
Satellite-derived maps of defoliation caused by European spongy moths—a devastating U.S. forest pest that consumes the leaves of a wide variety of trees—offer a...
Public research and development money can unlock private investment and lasting economic growth
Strategic public investment in research and development (R&D) can begin boosting economic activity immediately, according to a study led by the University of So...
Amazonian 'zombie' fungus harbors a hidden stage inside forest mosses, new study reveals
A team led by researchers at the National Institute for Amazonian Research (INPA), in Manaus, has found evidence that the "zombie-ant" fungus (genus Ophiocordyc...
Biosphere reserves: Allies against deforestation in the Western Amazon
Biosphere reserves help curb deforestation in the Western Amazon and, taken together, have prevented the loss of more than 7,400 square kilometers (2,900 square...
Physicists link the Riemann Hypothesis to phase transitions in quantum systems
A new study in Nature Communications has established a link between the Riemann Hypothesis and dynamical phase transitions in engineered quantum systems, demons...
Scientists advance space agriculture for future moon and Mars missions
Space isn't known for rich soil or ideal agricultural conditions anywhere in the solar system. Yet amid extreme temperatures and vast distances, multidisciplina...
Neutron star collisions may forge gold more slowly than expected
Where do gold, platinum and uranium come from? This question has fascinated astrophysicists and nuclear physicists for decades. A research team from Technische...
Scabies can kill animals like the beloved wombat. What's the best way to diagnose it?
Constant scratching, bumpy skin and tufts of lost fur. Those are just some of the signs that an animal has scabies, a severe and potentially fatal skin disease...