In 2018, Justin Kropp was restoring a fire-damaged transmission circuit in Southern California when disaster struck. Grid operators had earlier shut down the 115-kilovolt circuit, but six high-voltage lines that shared the corridor were still…
Category: Other Sciences
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How global laws can give workers real power
A new study in the Journal of Economic Geography has revealed that European “due diligence” laws designed to make multinational companies accountable for labor and environmental abuses are beginning to give a voice to some of the world’s most…
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Racial bias is at play in overrepresentation of Black youth in Canadian child welfare systems
Researchers who examined Canadian child welfare data found that Black children were not only investigated at a higher rate than their white peers but were also more likely to be taken from their homes, even when the only difference between cases…
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Happiness, autonomy and wealth: Worldwide analysis reveals a nuanced relationship
Happiness and well-being depend on how much volition, choice and control people feel they have over their life—their sense of autonomy. Researchers have acknowledged this connection, but there’s been disagreement about whether it’s universal or…
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Management of Charles Bonnet syndrome in routine eye care services
Christoph SE, Boden KT, Siegel R, Seitz B, Szurman P, Schulz A. The prevalence of Charles-Bonnet syndrome in ophthalmic patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Brain Res Bull. 2025;223:111282.
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Battery-electric passenger vehicles will be cost-effective across Africa well before 2040
Total cost of ownership calculation
The TCO is a comparative lifetime cost metric widely employed by transport modellers to assess technology competitiveness in both the passenger and commercial vehicle segments43,44,45,46,47. Here we evaluate…
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Sustainable ophthalmology: regulatory constraints and challenges
I read with great interest the recent paper by Maheshwari et al. on sustainability in ophthalmology [1]. The review has cleverly paved the way towards understanding the importance of environmental sustainability in eye care by initially…
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Investors are shifting to 'positive' environmental, social and governance screening, research finds
Investors show a stronger preference for positive environmental, social and governance (ESG) screening, especially in times of uncertainty in stock markets, according to a new study from researchers at Florida Atlantic University.
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Aligning games and sets in determining tennis matches
Under tennis’s rules, the winner of a match is the player who wins the greater number of sets. In the majority of cases, that is also the player who wins the most games, too—but not always.
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The surprising way you could improve your finances in 2026, according to research
When people talk about improving financial literacy, the conversation often focuses on teaching practical skills: how to budget, how to save, how to avoid debt. These lessons feel concrete and actionable. But recent research suggests that the…
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