Grocery retailers may not need new technology—or behavior change from shoppers—to meaningfully reduce food waste. New research in the journal Management Science finds that small operational decisions already under a retailer’s control,…
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Smarter shelf strategy can boost retail profits and cut food waste by more than 20%, study finds
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Climate change could threaten monarch mass migration
Climate change may threaten North America’s iconic mass monarch butterfly migration.
Every fall, millions of monarchs (Danaus plexippus) travel thousands of kilometers over North America as they leave their breeding grounds in…
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Translating music into light and motion with robots
Image taken from the YouTube video created by the authors (see below).
A system developed by researchers at the University of Waterloo…
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UK firm’s 100-year nuclear can wins deal for special materials mission
UK-based manufacturer LTi Metaltech has been awarded a contract worth over £45 million to produce specialized “100-year” storage vessels for the Sellafield site.
The deal will see the firm manufacture high-integrity containers for the…
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Scientists Just Unearthed Proof of a Massive Meteor Impact in Brazil from 6.3 Million Years Ago
For millions of years, Earth’s history has been shaped by cosmic impacts, yet one ancient collision in Brazil remained hidden, until now. A recent study published in Geology has uncovered evidence of a meteorite strike that occurred 6.3…
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The Man Who Stole Infinity
He had learned in school that Cantor was the sole founder of set theory — and that it all started with a proof he published in 1874. In that proof, Cantor showed that there are different sizes of infinity, putting to bed the notion that…
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How long could Earth microbes live on Mars?
Searching for past or present life on Mars is the sole driving force behind every mission we send to the red planet, from orbiters to landers to rovers. However, there remains a concern in the scientific community about Earth-based microbes…
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2D memristors could help solve AI's energy problem
New generations of memristors could reliably store information directly within the molecular structures of graphene-like materials. In a new review published in Nanoenergy Advances, Gennady Panin of the Russian Academy of Sciences shows how these…
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New drug target discovered for devastating “brain on fire” disease
Researchers have uncovered a promising new treatment target for a severe autoimmune brain disorder. The finding could help drive the development of more precise therapies for a condition caused by the immune system attacking a critical brain…
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Largest image of its kind shows hidden chemistry at the heart of the Milky Way
Astronomers have captured the central region of our Milky Way in a striking new image, unveiling a complex network of filaments of cosmic gas in unprecedented detail. This rich dataset will allow astronomers to probe the lives of stars in the…
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