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'Active travel' study identifies pathways for designing walking- and cycling-friendly cities
A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reveals the transformative potential of walking- ...
How an atomic nucleus can have two different shapes with only slightly different energy levels
A team of researchers at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) at Michigan State University (MSU) has discovered that ...
Physicists set new world record for qubit operation accuracy
Physicists at the University of Oxford have set a new global benchmark for the accuracy of controlling a single quantum bit, ...
A recipe for success: Beefing up the taste of cultured meat with amino acids
Around the world, the demand for meat is growing, despite associated environmental and animal welfare costs. Although ...
Q&A: Leveraging the power of open source data to map the world's oceans
June 8 was UN World Oceans Day, and this year's theme is "Wonder: Sustaining What Sustains Us." One researcher who has spent ...
New report offers critical strategies to protect public health and safe drinking water amid climate change
The American Academy of Microbiology, the honorific leadership group and think tank within the American Society for ...
First surface-emitting laser using quantum dots targets optical fiber communications
The National Institute of Information and Communications Technology of Japan, in collaboration with Sony Semiconductor ...
Emerging pollutants are aggravating water crisis in developing countries, say researchers
As the population grows and urbanization and agro-industrial activity increase, the demand for freshwater is expected to rise ...
Rings of time: Unearthing climate secrets from ancient trees
Deep in the swamps of the American Southeast stands a quiet giant: the bald cypress (Taxodium distichum). These majestic ...