Environmental and public health researchers are drawing attention to a little-known group of pathogens that may pose a rising global danger: free living amoebae. In a new perspective published in Biocontaminant, the team explains that these…
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Intensification or marginalization: peri-urban agriculture for mitigating urban heat island effects in summer
Data
The LAI data (500m×500m) provided by the 4-day composite MCD15A3H V6 MODIS was used to examine the spatiotemporal dynamics of PUA. The V6 version of this dataset has been improved in terms of algorithm development, data quality, and…
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Why some messages are more convincing than others
What kinds of marketing messages are effective—and what makes people believe certain political slogans more than others? New research from the University of California San Diego Rady School of Management explores how people constantly evaluate…
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How to get managers to say yes to flexible work arrangements
In the modern workplace, flexible arrangements can be as important as salary for some. For many employees, flexibility is no longer a nice-to-have luxury. It has become a fundamental requirement for staying in the workforce, especially after COVID.
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Saturday Citations: A weird, extinct life form; cholesterol hacking; interspecies prosociality of whales
It’s Saturday! This week, in an eminently practical analysis of the Boltzmann brain conjecture, physicists put constraints on the idea that memories could arise from random fluctuations in entropy rather than reflecting the actual past of the…
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Toward a sustainable megalopolis by reconciling power system decarbonization and urban health resilience
Rantanen, M., Kämäräinen, M., Luoto, M. & Aalto, J. Manifold increase in the spatial extent of heatwaves in the terrestrial Arctic. Commun. Earth Environ. 5, 570 (2024).
Lyu, J. et al….
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Duration of super-emitting oil and gas methane sources
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Standards of performance for new, reconstructed, and modified sources and emissions guidelines for existing sources: oil and natural gas sector climate review. Fed. Regist. 40, CFR Part 60 (2024). Available at…
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A new, long-term root zone soil moisture dataset for operational agricultural drought monitoring over Africa
Wilhite, D. A. & Glantz, M. H. Understanding: The drought phenomenon: The role of definitions. Water Int 10 (1985).
Benson, C. & Clay, E. The Impact of Drought on Sub-Saharan African Economies. IDS Bull 25, 24–32 (1994).
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Is AI a bubble that might burst?
It is hard to imagine that anyone could have missed the fact that such economic crashes occur from time to time—crashes that could have terrible consequences for individuals and society. In recent history, many vividly remember the IT bubble…
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Feeling alone in a full office: Study reveals hidden epidemic of workplace loneliness
A comprehensive new review published in the Journal of Management synthesizes decades of research to understand the epidemic of workplace loneliness. By analyzing 233 empirical studies, researchers from Portland State University have identified…
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