Examining fraud prevention in federal relief programs
SUNY Polytechnic Institute (SUNY Poly) assistant professor of accounting Dr. Katie Matt, in collaboration with Daniel…
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New framework links magnetic phase boundaries to string-like defects in spin ice
A research team led by Haruki Watanabe, a professor in the Department of Physics and the Jockey Club Institute for…
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Job loss and AI-exposed jobs: Q&A with sociology professor
Jennie Brand, a UCLA professor of sociology with an appointment in statistics and data science, is an expert on the…
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Learning reshapes inhibitory synapses differently within the same nerve cell, study suggests
Our brain must be able to learn new things without losing previously stored information or the stability of its…
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Rare particle decays hint at deviations from Standard Model predictions
Studying rare processes is part and parcel of particle physics, providing stringent tests of the Standard Model. At the…
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Sheep grazing in solar fields offers farmers economic, ecological gains
Two new research papers shed light on the growing practice of grazing sheep in fields with solar arrays. One…
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Superheavy-element compound reveals weaker-than-expected bond due to relativistic effects
An international collaboration led by a research group from GSI/FAIR in Darmstadt, Germany, has achieved the first…
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Patchier permafrost is linked to more intense hillslope erosion in Alaska
The Arctic is warming four times faster than the rest of the globe, and scientists are racing to understand how that…
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Employees look to leaders as study finds gap between workplace promises and employee experience
A survey of UK employees has revealed that more than half experience a mismatch between what their employer says and…
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Earth's mantle was 'breathing' oxygen a billion years before it hit the atmosphere, mineral time capsules reveal
Why is there life on Earth? It's one of the oldest questions humans have asked, and as far as we know, our planet is…
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How can AI transform education without leaving anyone behind?
As artificial intelligence (AI) rapidly enters classrooms and learning environments, how can societies ensure that its…
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Healthy corals restore bleached neighbors' color after five days of contact
The world's coral reefs face an existential threat from rising seawater temperatures that trigger widespread bleaching,…
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Museum specimens reveal pathogen behind decades-old mystery of disappearing frogs
In the 1970s, researchers began to observe drastic amphibian declines in Brazil's Atlantic Forest, a global hotspot of…
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IBM executive warns of risk of quantum computing hacks
Organizations are unprepared for the risks posed by quantum computing, IBM's Europe and Africa vice president…
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Border-hopping virus identified in Chilean pepper and tomato crops
An international team of scientists recently collaborated to identify a mysterious viral disease damaging pepper and…
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Most marine protected areas fail to curb fishing: Study
Fishing is increasing in most marine reserves worldwide in spite of conservation pledges, a study published Wednesday…
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Muscle cells self-organize into spirals, advancing efforts to engineer tiny blood vessels that regulate flow
Different tissues need different amounts of blood depending on what they are doing. Meeting those changing demands…
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Indonesia rescues starved orangutan from fires: Officials
A female orangutan that was likely starving was evacuated Wednesday from an area razed by fire on the Indonesian island…
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Same-day heat wave and wildfire smoke exposure is increasing worldwide
Europe's heat waves this past summer broke countless records, and wildfires spread across Spain and France, forcing…
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Storm Harry: Drifting buoys help improve early forecasts of extreme events in the Mediterranean Sea
A network of drifting buoys equipped with barometers can help improve weather forecasts of extreme Mediterranean storms…
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Scientists establish new genus of deep-sea 'spaghetti worms'
Scientists have announced a new genus of deep-sea segmented marine "spaghetti worms" with suction cups on their bodies,…
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Software advance brings complex quantum simulations to standard computers
A major software advance could aid the creation of bigger, more reliable quantum computers, a study suggests.…
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Fighting off microbial invasions drains plants' iron stores, but one protein helps restore balance
Energy production in our cells, oxygen traveling in our blood and immune cells fighting infection all depend on iron,…
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Bering Land Bridge base camp reveals what life was like nearly 14,000 years ago
The area of water between Russia and North America and the Pacific and Arctic oceans is now known as the Bering Strait.…
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Main factors in pornography use among adolescents identified
A study by the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV) has analyzed which factors are most associated with pornography use…
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New DNA tool could help detect harmful algal blooms before they spread
A new study by researchers at the University of South Florida and Florida Atlantic University has demonstrated that a…
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Removing rats and restoring native plants could help atolls withstand rising seas
Protecting seabirds and restoring natural vegetation could give low-lying tropical atoll islands a fighting chance…
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Warmer coastal waters drive heavy cyclone rainfall farther inland, raising flood risks
A research team at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) has found that the area affected by tropical cyclone…
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Nine studies reveal consumers favor eco-friendly additions over waste-cutting removals
When hotels replace single-use toiletries with refillable dispensers, or companies strip unnecessary items from product…
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Bacteria turn 3D-printed sand into solid building elements
Cement manufacturing is one of the largest sources of CO₂ emissions in the construction industry. At the Department of…
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Gathering rare airborne observations of firestorm clouds
Just minutes into a planned research flight from Colorado to Oregon in August to study massive storm clouds fueled by…
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'Sundown towns' linked to lingering racial bias
A sundown town is a community that prohibited Black people from staying within its borders after dark or from owning…
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Toothless 'hell chicken' dinosaur may have had a taste for fruit
While many dinosaurs were fearsome predators with razor-sharp teeth, others were peaceful herbivores munching on…
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Local DNA motion inside the cell stays nearly constant throughout interphase
Human genomic DNA is wrapped around core histone proteins to form nucleosomes, the fundamental units of chromatin.…
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How drought shapes the impact of Xylella fastidiosa on almond trees
Xylella fastidiosa is a pathogen that poses a serious threat to agri-food systems. An insect-borne bacterium that…
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Australia's oldest underwater archaeology reveals ancient life within a lost landscape
New discoveries from Australia's oldest known underwater archaeological record reveal how First Peoples lived,…
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