More than 600,000 students were enrolled in PhD programmes in China in 2023.Credit: ChinaImages/Sipa USA via Alamy
The number of doctoral graduates globally has been growing steadily over the past few decades. And in countries such as China and…
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The Atlantic’s chilling secret: A century of data reveals ocean current collapse
For more than a century, a patch of cold water south of Greenland has resisted the Atlantic Ocean’s overall warming, fueling debate amongst scientists. A new study identifies the cause as the long-term weakening of a major ocean circulation…
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The influence of changes in income, oil, and the interest rate on the Saudi Arabian stock market
Stock markets play an important role in the economy as venues for investors and companies. Investors can earn profits by investing in companies that are publicly listed, while the companies can raise money to finance their expansions. Stock…
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Unveiling the driving mechanism of greenwashing behaviors: an agent-based modeling approach integrating new institutionalism and halo effect theories
Abar S, Theodoropoulos GK, Lemarinier P, O’Hare GM (2017) Agent Based Modelling and Simulation tools: A review of the state-of-art software. Comput Sci Rev 24:13–33. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosrev.2017.03.001
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The role of community mutual aid networks and social relationship capital in household financial vulnerability in China: heterogeneous influence of region
The literature related to this paper can be categorized into two main areas. The first area focuses on the impact of community mutual aid networks and social relationship capital on individual and family economy (Panday et al., 2021; Si et al.,
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Frozen in time: Transparent worms keep genes in sync for 20 million years
Two species of worms have retained remarkably similar patterns in the way they switch their genes on and off despite having split from a common ancestor 20 million years ago, a new study finds.
The findings appear in the June 19 issue of the…
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Self-esteem skyrockets 131% after weight-loss surgery, study reveals
Self-esteem scores more than doubled within one year of weight-loss surgery, according to a new study* presented today at the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS) 2025 Annual Scientific Meeting.
Researchers from Geisinger…
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Climate shocks and innovation persistence: evidence from extreme precipitation
Literature review
As global climate change intensifies, the frequency and magnitude of extreme weather events, particularly extreme precipitation, have shown significant upward trends. Research indicates that these trends will likely intensify…
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Field and farm-level data on agricultural land use for the European Union
Data collection
Collecting IACS data is tedious due to the varying levels of data accessibility among EU member states. While all EU member states are required to make key elements of the IACS data publicly available for purposes of the…
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Food trade wars have hidden biodiversity costs
The escalating trade conflict between the world’s two largest economies now menaces ecological systems far beyond the price charts that dominate front pages. At the time of writing, Beijing’s retaliatory tariffs on US agricultural products…
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