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Education Apr 23, 2024

Research reveals tools to make STEM degrees more affordable

In a new study in Issues in Science and Technology, Dominique J. Baker, an associate professor in the College of Education and Human Development and the Joseph R. Biden, Jr. School of Public Policy & Administration at the ...

Earth Sciences Apr 23, 2024

Climate change expected to increase wildfire danger

WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research (SLF) researchers expect an elevated wildfire danger in the Alpine Foreland from 2040 onwards due to changing meteorological conditions. The danger currently remains very low ...

Political science Apr 23, 2024

Freedom of information: To what extent are public archives accessible?

In 2000, the Council of Europe issued a Recommendation aimed at improving access to archives in the member states. Together with the Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives (OSA Archivum) in Budapest, Fraunhofer ISI ...

Plasma Physics Apr 23, 2024

Record electron temperatures for a small-scale, sheared-flow-stabilized Z-pinch fusion device achieved

In the nine decades since humans first produced fusion reactions, only a few fusion technologies have demonstrated the ability to make a thermal fusion plasma with electron temperatures hotter than 10 million degrees Celsius, ...

Astronomy Apr 23, 2024

Observations explore globular cluster system in the galaxy NGC 4262

Using the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT), Indian astronomers have performed wide and deep field observations of a polar ring galaxy known as NGC 4262. Results of the observational campaign, published April 15 on the ...

General Physics Apr 23, 2024

Hunting for the elusive: IceCube observes seven potential tau neutrinos

Researchers at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory in Antarctica have found seven signals that could potentially indicate tau neutrinos—which are famously hard to detect—from astrophysical objects.

Environment Apr 23, 2024

State's new law involving Puget Sound Energy aspires to set a course for the future

Over the past couple of years, Washington lawmakers have wrestled with a daunting task.

Cell & Microbiology Apr 22, 2024

Findings suggest ILF3 may function as a reader of telomeric R-loops to help maintain telomere homeostasis

Dysregulated R-loops can cause stalled replication forks and telomere instability. However, how R-loops are recognized and regulated, is still not well understood, particularly at telomeres.

Cell & Microbiology Apr 22, 2024

Liquid droplets shape how cells respond to change, shows study

Healthy cells respond appropriately to changes in their environment. They do this by sensing what's happening outside and relaying a command to the precise biomolecule in the precise domain that can carry out the necessary ...

Social Sciences Apr 22, 2024

Uncovering a CS Lewis poem

A forgotten poem by Chronicles of Narnia author CS Lewis reveals details of friendships between fantasy writers and medievalists at the University of Leeds.

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