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Indo-Pacific is more than a region, pushing politics in a ‘pessimistic and paranoid’ direction
Credit: Nick Wehrli from Pexels Over the past decade, the idea of a critical geopolitical space called the “Indo-Pacific” has become integral to the large-scale strategizing of countries within and outside this vast geographic area. However, this term is not new. Australia, one of the few truly Indo-Pacific countries, used the system in the 1970s to envision an optimistic future…
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Pushing the limits of traditional pottery techniques through the fusion of art and science
Graphene-enhanced ceramic art installation created by Delia Prvački. Credit: Daria Andreeva, National University of Singapore, Delia Prvački, Deliarts Pte Ltd. Art and science are sometimes poles apart, but that’s not the case with the research projects described in ACS Omega. In this study, a multidisciplinary team integrated scientific research, technological advances, and artistic exploration to experiment with the production, properties,…
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Earth
A river is pushing up the top of Everest
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Mount Everest is about 15 to 50 meters taller than it would be otherwise, and continues to grow, due to uplift caused by erosion of nearby river gorges, UCL researchers say. found out in a new study by. The study, published in Nature Geoscience, found that a significant canyon has been carved out by erosion from…
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