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June 26, 2025

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Investment Risk for Energy Infrastructure Construction Is Highest for Nuclear Power Plants, Lowest for Solar

May 20, 2025 — The average energy project costs 40% more than expected for construction and takes almost two years longer than planned, finds a new global study. One key insight: The investment risk is highest for ...

New Study Shows AI Can Predict Child Malnutrition, Support Prevention Efforts

May 16, 2025 — A multidisciplinary team of researchers has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) model that can predict acute child malnutrition in Kenya up to six months in advance. The tool offers governments ...

Piecing Together the Brain Puzzle

May 7, 2025 — Our brain is a complex organ. Billions of nerve cells are wired in an intricate network, constantly processing signals, enabling us to recall memories or to move our bodies. Making sense of this complicated network requires a precise look into how ...

Finding 'Win-Win-Wins' for Climate, Economics and Justice

Apr. 25, 2025 — In examining how different countries have rolled out climate change mitigation strategies, research has found reasons to be optimistic about preserving our environment while promoting prosperity and ...

Is Your Job Making You Happy? Insights from Job Satisfaction Data

Mar. 26, 2025 — New research has found that employers and policymakers might want to start paying attention to how workers are feeling, because employee happiness contains critical economic ...

Delaying the Net Zero Transition Could Impose Significant Economic Costs

Mar. 25, 2025 — Delayed and disorderly energy transitions will threaten economic and financial stability whilst also increasing the economic risks from climate change, according to a new study. Conversely, transitions that are started sooner are likely to be more ...

AI Has 'Great Potential' for Detecting Wildfires, New Study of the Amazon Rainforest Suggests

Mar. 8, 2025 — A type of Artificial Intelligence that mimics the functioning of the human brain could represent a powerful solution in automatically detecting wildfires, plummeting the time needed to mitigate their ...

Neural Network Deciphers Gravitational Waves from Merging Neutron Stars in a Second

Mar. 5, 2025 — Binary neutron star mergers emit gravitational waves followed by light. To fully exploit these observations and avoid missing key signals, speed is crucial. An interdisciplinary team of researchers ...

Materials Incorporated Into Quantum Qubit Platform

Mar. 2, 2025 — Researchers detail advances in the measurement of quantum devices that will be needed to realize a topological quantum computer. In an announcement, the team describes the operation of a device that is a necessary building block for a topological ...

Rising Wages Drive Innovation in Automation Technology

Feb. 25, 2025 — Labor market policies shape firms' innovation dynamics. A new study shows for the first time that higher minimum wages for low-skill jobs drive firms to develop automation technologies. Rising wages for high-skill labor, in contrast, can hamper this ...

Topological Quantum Processor Marks Breakthrough in Computing

Feb. 21, 2025 — In a leap forward for quantum computing, physicists unveiled an eight-qubit topological quantum processor, the first of its kind. The chip, built as a proof-of-concept for the scientists' design, opens the door to the development of the long-awaited ...

Are We Trusting AI Too Much? New Study Demands Accountability in Artificial Intelligence

Feb. 18, 2025 — Are we putting our faith in technology that we don't fully understand? A new study comes at a time when AI systems are making decisions impacting our daily lives -- from banking and healthcare to ...

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When Qubits Learn the Language of Fiberoptics

Feb. 11, 2025 — Qubits -- the fundamental units of quantum information -- drive entire tech sectors. Among them, superconducting qubits could be instrumental in building a large-scale quantum computer, but they rely ...

Study in India Shows Kids Use Different Math Skills at Work Vs. School

Feb. 5, 2025 — A study by economists shows a wide gap between the kinds of math problems kids who work in retail markets do well and the kinds of problems kids in school do ...

Brain-Inspired Nanotech Points to a New Era in Electronics

Jan. 16, 2025 — Imagine a future where your phone, computer or even a tiny wearable device can think and learn like the human brain -- processing information faster, smarter and using less energy. A breakthrough ...

Uncovering the Pigments and Techniques Used to Paint the Berlin Wall

Dec. 16, 2024 — Street art takes many forms, and the vibrant murals on the Berlin Wall both before and after its fall are expressions of people's opinions. But there was often secrecy around the processes for ...

Better Environmental Performance Boosts Profits and Cuts Costs

Dec. 10, 2024 — Using a new calculation method, researchers found in an international comparative study that investors value corporate environmental performance more than mere information disclosure. In some ...

Finding the Weak Points: New Method to Prevent Train Delay Cascades

Dec. 10, 2024 — To help improve punctuality by understanding how delays propagate and identifying critical trains, researchers have developed a new network-based ...

AI Predicts Earth's Peak Warming

Dec. 10, 2024 — Artificial intelligence provides new evidence that rapid decarbonization will not prevent warming beyond 1.5 degrees Celsius. The hottest years of this century are likely to shatter recent ...

Cloud Computing Captures Chemistry Code

Oct. 21, 2024 — The speed and agility of cloud computing opens doors to completing advanced computational chemistry workflows in days instead of ...

How Can We Make the Best Possible Use of Large Language Models for a Smarter and More Inclusive Society?

Sep. 20, 2024 — Large language models (LLMs) have developed rapidly in recent years and are becoming an integral part of our everyday lives through applications like ...

A New Way of Thinking About the Economy Could Help Protect the Amazon, and Help Its People Thrive

Aug. 6, 2024 — To protect the Amazon and support the wellbeing of its people, its economy needs to shift from environmentally harmful production to a model built ...

Stock Market Performance Enhanced Through Integrated Reporting

Mar. 24, 2025 — Companies can significantly enhance their stock market performance by adopting Integrated Reporting (IR) and Combined Assurance (CA) practices, according to new research that underscores the ...

How Good Are AI Doctors at Medical Conversations?

Jan. 2, 2025 — Researchers design a new way to more reliably evaluate AI models' ability to make clinical decisions in realistic scenarios that closely mimic real-life interactions. The analysis finds that ...

How Cheerful Is That Water Bottle?

Sep. 3, 2024 — New research shows consumers use 'happier' words to search for products when they are in a good mood. Researchers have connected those positive search terms with an increased likelihood of ...

Researchers Explore the Potential of Clean Energy Markets as a Hedging Tool

July 31, 2024 — Clean energy investments offer potential stability and growth, especially during volatile market conditions. A recent study explored the relationship between clean energy markets and global stock ...

How Risk-Averse Are Humans When Interacting With Robots?

July 11, 2024 — How do people like to interact with robots when navigating a crowded environment? And what algorithms should roboticists use to program robots to interact with humans? These are the questions that a ...

Crucial Gaps in Climate Risk Assessment Methods

July 2, 2024 — Researchers have uncovered significant flaws in current climate risk assessment techniques that could lead to a severe underestimation of climate-related financial losses for businesses and ...

Study Finds US Does Not Have Housing Shortage, but Shortage of Affordable Housing

June 17, 2024 — A new study has found that the United States does not have a housing shortage, contrary to popular belief. An analysis of Census data shows the majority of the nation's metropolitan and ...

Hybrid Work Is a 'Win-Win-Win' for Companies, Workers

June 12, 2024 — In the largest study yet of working-from-home professionals, economists reveal that employees who work from home two days a week are just as productive, likely to get promoted, and far less prone to ...

The Unexpected Origins of a Modern Finance Tool

June 6, 2024 — Surprisingly, the origins of financial discounting began with 17th-century English ...

Evolving Market Dynamics Foster Consumer Inattention That Can Lead to Risky Purchases

May 20, 2024 — Researchers have developed a new theory of how changing market conditions can lead large numbers of otherwise cautious consumers to buy risky products such as subprime mortgages, cryptocurrency or ...

New Circuit Boards Can Be Repeatedly Recycled

Apr. 26, 2024 — Researchers have developed a new PCB that performs on par with traditional materials and can be recycled repeatedly with negligible material loss. Researchers used a solvent that transforms a type of ...

New Study Reveals How AI Can Enhance Flexibility, Efficiency for Customer Service Centers

Apr. 24, 2024 — AI is a valuable asset, so long as it's used properly, though customer service organizations shouldn't rely on it exclusively to guide their strategies, according to new ...

Opening Up the Potential of Thin-Film Electronics for Flexible Chip Design

Apr. 24, 2024 — The mass production of conventional silicon chips relies on a successful business model with large 'semiconductor fabrication plants' or 'foundries'. New research by shows that ...

Economist: Tens of Billions of Dollars in Forest Products Are Being Overlooked

Apr. 11, 2024 — Are we missing the forest for the trees? More than timber grows in forests -- including products worth many tens of billions of dollars. Because these goods go unrecorded in official trade ...

Can the Bias in Algorithms Help Us See Our Own?

Apr. 9, 2024 — New research shows that people recognize more of their biases in algorithms' decisions than they do in their own -- even when those decisions are the ...

How Climate Change Will Impact Food Production and Financial Institutions

Apr. 8, 2024 — Researchers have developed a new method to predict the financial impacts climate change will have on agriculture, which can help support food security and financial stability for countries ...

Virtual Reality Better Than Video for Evoking Fear, Spurring Climate Action

Mar. 18, 2024 — Depicting worst-case climate scenarios like expanding deserts and dying coral reefs may better motivate people to support environmental policies when delivered via virtual reality, according to a ...

Researchers Use AI, Google Street View to Predict Household Energy Costs on Large Scale

Feb. 29, 2024 — An interdisciplinary team of experts has found a way to use artificial intelligence to analyze a household's passive design characteristics and predict its energy expenses with more than 74 ...

Researchers Use Hawk Supercomputer and Lean Into Imperfection to Improve Solar Cell Efficiency

Feb. 27, 2024 — Solar energy is one of the most promising, widely adopted renewable energy sources, but the solar cells that convert light into electricity remains a challenge. Scientists have turned to the ...

Artificial Intelligence: Aim Policies at 'Hardware' to Ensure AI Safety, Say Experts

Feb. 15, 2024 — Chips and datacentres -- the 'compute' power driving the AI revolution -- may be the most effective targets for risk-reducing AI policies as they have to be physically possessed, according ...