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The Wall Street Journal reports that Amazon is opening retail stores in cities. On one level, this poses a puzzle because Amazon's rise was fueled by its cost savings due to the fact that it is a virtual store. Over the decades, Amazon has assembled a huge database about each of its customers. Such data (and knowing where each of us lives) allows it to make educated predictions about what goods we will want to buy at its retail stores. Amazon will stock their stores with such products. MORE
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AUGUST 30, 2021
Birth rates in many high-income countries declined in the months following the first wave, possibly because of economic uncertainty. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com. Social Sciences Sociology
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AUGUST 31, 2021
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AUGUST 24, 2021
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AUGUST 25, 2021
Next month, an industrial facility in Iceland will join a growing number of projects to remove CO2 from the air and put it underground. But major hurdles, including high costs, remain before this technology can be widely deployed and play a key role in tackling climate change. Read more on E360
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AUGUST 19, 2021
The Wall Street Journal reports that Amazon is opening retail stores in cities. On one level, this poses a puzzle because Amazon's rise was fueled by its cost savings due to the fact that it is a virtual store. Over the decades, Amazon has assembled a huge database about each of its customers. Such data (and knowing where each of us lives) allows it to make educated predictions about what goods we will want to buy at its retail stores. Amazon will stock their stores with such products.
Scientific American
AUGUST 30, 2021
Too many surveys fail to include options beyond “male,” “female” and “do not wish to disclose” -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com. Biology Ethics
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AUGUST 24, 2021
Effective theorists: Sonia Bacca (left), Bijaya Acharya (centre) and Joanna Sobczyk. Courtesy: Sabrina Hopp/Angelika Stehle). The interaction between an electron and a calcium-40 nucleus has been calculated from first principles for the first time.
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World Bank report sheds light on the nuanced connections between “water shocks” and human migration.
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AUGUST 17, 2021
by Jon C. Day, Scott F. Heron, and Terry Hughes (James Cook University) After much anticipation, the World Heritage Committee on Friday decided against listing the Great Barrier Reef as “in danger”.
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AUGUST 12, 2021
The Senate just released a federal budget resolution that includes a measure that could subsidize the production of natural gas. Here are 5 reasons why we shouldn't do that.
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AUGUST 11, 2021
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AUGUST 24, 2021
The novel coronavirus, in contrast, can disrupt both things in unvaccinated men and women. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com. Health Public Health Vaccines
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AUGUST 23, 2021
Noise from wind farms may be more bothersome at night than it is during the day – and not only for the reasons you might expect.
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AUGUST 17, 2021
Federal government declares, for the first time, a Tier 1 shortage due to low water at Lake Mead. Mineral deposits on the canyon walls show where Lake Mead water levels used to touch. The reservoir is the lowest it’s been since it was first filled in the 1930s. Photo © J.
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AUGUST 10, 2021
In an interview with Yale Environment 360 , marine biologist Edith Widder talks about her pioneering research into the world of bioluminescent organisms in the deep oceans and warns of the dangers, from trawling to oil drilling, that imperil this hidden realm. Read more on E360
Union of Concerned Scientists
AUGUST 17, 2021
A Science Network guest blogger reacts to Dr. Steven Koonin's controversial book on climate science, and a perhaps overly credulous review of this book by George Will in the Washington Post. Climate Change climate impacts disinformation risk assessment science-based decision making
Inside Climate News
AUGUST 15, 2021
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AUGUST 21, 2021
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AUGUST 13, 2021
The basin’s big reservoirs have fallen to uncharted territory. The forecast isn’t any better. Lake Mead sits at a record low. Federal officials are expected to declare a first-ever Tier 1 shortage, which will require water cuts that fall most heavily on Arizona. Photo © J. Carl Ganter/Circle of Blue.
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AUGUST 10, 2021
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Union of Concerned Scientists
AUGUST 13, 2021
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AUGUST 16, 2021
By Tania Fitzgeorge-Balfour, science writer. Example of marine dinoflagellates ( Dinophysis sp., not the species studied in the paper). Image credit: Rattiya Thongdumhyu/Shutterstock.com. Plastic pollution is not just a problem for larger marine animals.
Scientific American
AUGUST 19, 2021
A tool built by the U.S. Geological Survey suggests that the number of fatalities may range from 10,000 to 100,000 or more. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com. Environment Geology Natural Disasters Health
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AUGUST 31, 2021
Data collected more than thirty years ago contain what could be evidence of high-energy neutrinos generated by a supernova.
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AUGUST 11, 2021
The climate crisis will jeopardize key sources of fresh water and make extreme weather events more severe. But experts say there’s still time to prevent the worst outcomes. A farmer in the Mekong Delta uses plastic, mud, and sticks to hold back the rising sea.
Inside Climate News
AUGUST 9, 2021
A new IPCC science assessment, coming before COP26 in November, called for immediate action and showed that this summer’s extremes are only a mild preview of the decades ahead.
Union of Concerned Scientists
AUGUST 31, 2021
A historic black community fights to improve its air quality. Transportation pm 2.5
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AUGUST 3, 2021
By now, we all know the damage single-use items can do to our ocean and the creatures that call it home. That’s why thousands of people have taken Ocean Conservancy’s pledges to reduce waste in their daily lives by skipping the straw and quitting the cutlery.
Scientific American
AUGUST 17, 2021
Researchers cite studies that can’t be replicated weirdly often. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com. Observatory Social Sciences Policy
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AUGUST 20, 2021
Jesper Grimstrup is a Danish theoretical physicist who received his PhD in 2002. His life’s mission is to find a theory of everything.
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AUGUST 9, 2021
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