A post-pandemic world: will populations be on the move? Study shows contagions could be catalysts for mass migration

The development of renewable energies such as wind energy and solar energy is limited by their inherently random and intermittent nature. However, the vanadium flow battery (VFB) offers a cost- and energy-efficient, long-life energy storage technology that can store and smoothly output power from renewable energies. The VFB energy storage system mainly comprises the stack,…

Projects funded to assess the economic and societal benefits of satellites

WASHINGTON, DC–Resources for the Future (RFF) announced today the winners of three grants, totaling $300,000, to quantify the benefits of using satellite data in decisions that improve socioeconomic outcomes for people and the environment. These awards advance the work of the Consortium for the Valuation of Applications Benefits Linked to Earth Science (VALUABLES), a partnership…

How’s the Economy Doing? Watch the Dentists

ImageInstalling a crown at a dental office in Vinton, Iowa, last month. In many places, dentists have gone back to work.Credit…Andy Abeyta/The Gazette, via Associated Press If not for coronavirus, you’d expect your local dentist office to be doing just fine. Dentist offices tend to be stable businesses that stick around for decades, unlike restaurants…

Noise disturbs the brain’s compass

Our sense of direction tends to decline with age. In the scientific journal “Nature Communications“, researchers from the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) and experts from the USA report on new insights into the causes of this phenomenon. According to their findings, the main source of errors in determining spatial position and apparently the…