When it comes to the price of financial services such as loans, mortgages, and insurance, the perception of what is "fair" has a lot to do with how wealthy you are. In the study "Seeing Like a Company ...

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A research team at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has analyzed 40 years of data covering about ...

Underground, intricate networks of soil fungi underpin the functioning of terrestrial ecosystems. Yet despite their global ...

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Efforts to advance toward a more sustainable world focus heavily on a limited set of actions and actors while overlooking key ...

The Cascadia Subduction Zone is unusually quiet for a megathrust fault. Spanning more than 600 miles from Canada to ...

Tardigrades, commonly known as water bears, may be better suited by a new name: Tardiguardians of the Galaxy. Unlike the ...

Duckweed is the fastest-growing flowering plant, but new knowledge of duckweed genetics discovered by Adelaide University ...

The South China Sea Throughflow (SCSTF) serves as a critical oceanic conveyor belt for heat and freshwater, mediating water ...