The eyes of the footballing world will be on Germany this summer as the country hosts the 2024 UEFA European Championship. For…
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Why Are There Few Or No Mosquitoes In Some Places? » ScienceABC
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Mosquitoes are found all over the world, primarily thriving in moist and humid tropical regions. However, there are also places in the world (including a group of tropical islands), where mosquitoes are missing entirely or find it quite…
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Definition, History, Explanation, Examples And Criticism » ScienceABC
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Western portrayal of the East as exotic, despite being heavily influenced by power dynamics and colonialism, is critiqued for perpetuating stereotypes.
Orientalism is a term that refers to the Western perception and representation of…
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George Whitesides became giant of chemistry by keeping it simple — Harvard Gazette
Scholars at Harvard tell their stories in the Experience series.
When George Whitesides started as a teenage technician in his father’s Kentucky lab in the early 1950s, the bond was immediate — and lasting.
Today one of the world’s most influential chemists,…
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Glimpse of next-generation internet — Harvard Gazette
It’s one thing to dream up a next-generation quantum internet capable of sending highly complex, hacker-proof information around the world at ultra-fast speeds. It’s quite another to physically show it’s possible.
That’s exactly what Harvard physicists have done, using existing…
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Science is making anti-aging progress. But do we want to live forever? — Harvard Gazette
Mayflies live for only a day. Galapagos tortoises can reach up to age 170. The Greenland shark holds the world record at over 400 years of life.
Venki Ramakrishnan, Nobel laureate and author of the newly released “Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality,”…
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Researchers publish largest-ever dataset of neural connections — Harvard Gazette
A cubic millimeter of brain tissue may not sound like much. But considering that that tiny square contains 57,000 cells, 230 millimeters of blood vessels, and 150 million synapses, all amounting to 1,400 terabytes of data, Harvard and Google researchers have just accomplished something…
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How is generative AI changing education? — Harvard Gazette
While moderating a talk on artificial intelligence last week, Latanya Sweeney posed a thought experiment. Picture three to five years from now. AI companies are continuing to scrape the internet for data to feed their large language models. But unlike today’s internet, which is largely…
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Rethinking Digital Transformation: Future-proofing Bulgarian Banks with Oracle : Ukrainian HI-TECH Initiative
April 27, 2023 9:00 am – April 27, 2023 12:00 pmThe growing demand for intuitive customer experience and instant payments, the emergence of Open Banking, and stiff competition from FinTechs are pressuring banks to reinvent themselves. Incumbents are at a tipping…
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Infopulse Among Top Service Providers for 2023
The International Association of Outsourcing Professionals® (IAOP®) has recognized Infopulse, a global provider of digital services and consultancy, as one of the world’s top 100 outsourcing companies in 2023.
Infopulse has made it into the IAOP’s Annual Listing…
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