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  • How activity in Earth’s mantle led the ancient ancestors of elephants, giraffes, and humans into Asia and Africa

    How activity in Earth’s mantle led the ancient ancestors of elephants, giraffes, and humans into Asia and Africa

    What roils beneath the Earth’s surface may feel a world away, but the activity can help forge land masses that dictate ocean circulation, climate patterns, and even animal activity and evolution. In fact, scientists believe that a plume of hot…

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  • U.S. Pushes $900M for Small Modular Reactors. Is That Enough?

    U.S. Pushes $900M for Small Modular Reactors. Is That Enough?

    The U.S. Department of Energy has put US $900 million on the table to push small modular reactors (SMRs) from design to reality. While the funding program was originally launched in April 2024 under the Biden administration, it was amended last…

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  • This Stretchable Battery Heals After Being Cut in Half

    This Stretchable Battery Heals After Being Cut in Half

    A new lithium-ion battery can not only withstand stretching and twisting, but can get stabbed with needles and cut in half with razor blades—and then heal itself to continue providing power to a device.

    Wearable electronics, soft robots, and…

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  • Career pathways, part 17 | Nature Metabolism

    Career pathways, part 17 | Nature Metabolism

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  • Impacts of agrisolar co-location on the food–energy–water nexus and economic security

    Impacts of agrisolar co-location on the food–energy–water nexus and economic security

    Identifying agrisolar PV arrays across the CCV

    We used remotely sensed imagery of existing solar PV arrays and geographic information system (GIS) datasets to develop a comprehensive and publicly available dataset of ground-mounted arrays…

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  • Government efforts to reduce fossil fuel subsidies have failed at a very high rate

    Government efforts to reduce fossil fuel subsidies have failed at a very high rate

    We find that since 2016, and in comparison to the 2000–2015 period, there has been a rise in the frequency and ambition of subsidy reforms but a drop in their durability: 70% of all reforms failed in the first year, and 91% failed within 3…

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  • Information seeking and affective relationship building in influencer marketing: the role of social media affordances

    Information seeking and affective relationship building in influencer marketing: the role of social media affordances

    In this section, we first reviewed the technology affordance perspective and clarified some key conceptual inconsistencies in the literature. Next, we introduced social media affordances of visibility and engagement to establish their…

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  • Germany and Europe lead digital innovation and AI with collaborative health data use at continental level

    Germany and Europe lead digital innovation and AI with collaborative health data use at continental level

    Bienzeisler et al.1 show how federated access to 7.9 million data sets representing 2 million patients enables the nationwide secondary use of emergency medicine records while adhering to national and European law. It is an exemplary use case and…

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  • DNA-sequencing method maps subsurface fluid flow paths for enhanced monitoring

    DNA-sequencing method maps subsurface fluid flow paths for enhanced monitoring

    Microbial community composition of injection well fluids over time

    Figure 5a depicts DNA sequencing of injection well fluids at four different times, revealing 17 specific bacterial genera and “other”. Most fluids samples show stable microbial…

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