Bitcoin Uses More Electricity Than Many Countries. How Is That Possible?
The most popular cryptocurrency wastes energy by design. Why is that, and could it ever be greener?
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The most popular cryptocurrency wastes energy by design. Why is that, and could it ever be greener?
Air pollution is slashing years from billions of people's lives around the world and is a greater threat to life expectancy than smoking, HIV/AIDS or war, a report published Wednesday shows.
These are my remarks from yesterday's UK Student Accommodation Forum on demand for higher education in 2021/22 and on, hosted by Unipol. The event also saw the launch of an excellent new paper on International Students and Factors Affecting Accommodation in the UK. When it comes to demand from home students, the naysayers were wrong in 2020 and […]
The activist and author discusses why there is no one-size-fits-all feminism and her aim to create work that comforts women of colour who have been 'gaslit'
The Biden administration's first annual list of R&D priorities includes an emphasis on bolstering pandemic preparedness and climate mitigation efforts, strengthening domestic manufacturing, and incorporating equity considerations across federal programs.
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Article Attention Scores for papers don't seem to add up, leading one to question whether Altmetric data are valid, reliable, and reproducible.
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IPBES, the international panel of leading biodiversity researchers, should be consulted on how best to measure species loss.
Switzerland will be excluded from Horizon Europe for at least two years, fears Yves Flückiger, president of the country's university association, swissuniversities and rector of the University of Geneva.
Here's how Afghanistan's scholars can be supported.
With today's existing translation tools to overcome language barriers, global collaboration should not be a major feat for researchers. However, through the COVID-19 pandemic, articles published in Chinese journals focusing on important aspects of the disease were never cited by English journals.
Researchers have grown mini brains with light-sensitive eye structures that could lead to breakthrough treatments for vision disorders.
Experts say 17,500 tree species are at risk around the world, including magnolias, oaks and maples.
Food and water were thought to be the main ways humans are exposed to PFAS, but study points to risk of breathing them in.
Osteoarthritis is a crippling, incurable disease. But scientists behind a new large-scale study say their findings could help pave the way to a cure.
A global career move left one member of a scientist couple unemployed during the pandemic. Here's what he learnt.
I pride myself on coming from a place of “yes.” So it was uncharacteristic that, when my department head asked me to share my experiences of homophobia at a recent virtual diversity town hall for faculty, my first reaction was to decline.
This month, Joan Miller retired. You probably haven’t heard of Joan. Joan was the administrator for my grad school department who, for 48 years, made sure everything ran smoothly and—stunningly—never appeared the slightest bit ruffled by the depth or breadth of these demands.
Science is not just something we do at school or professionals undertake in labs. It is at the heart of how everything works.
With 70% of the EU population now fully vaccinated, European universities are planning to welcome students back to lecture halls and seminar rooms for the 2021-22 academic year, after long months of disruption and distance learning.
The largest-ever independent gathering of interest groups, thought-leaders, science advisors to governments and global institutions, researchers, academics, communicators and diplomats is taking place in Montreal and online.