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Science
A short-lived soda tax strengthens alternative estimates of the tax’s impact on consumer behavior: a study
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain One of the most common assumptions made by tax policy makers is that increasing taxes will increase government revenue. But a new study focused on Washington state’s soda tax strengthens another estimate of the tax’s impact on consumer behavior. Researchers found that when Washington state enacted a soda tax, not only did it provoke a backlash…
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Physics
New technology improves measurement accuracy of short-lived nuclei
Schematic diagram of the experimental cold storage ring layout and TOF detector of the heavy ion research facility in Lanzhou. Credit: Han-Yu Deng Researchers at the Heavy Ion Research Facility in Lanzhou (HIRFL-CSR) have introduced Tune-IMS, a technology designed to improve the accuracy of isochronous mass spectrometry (IMS) in the measurement of short-lived nuclei. This development provides sophisticated data for…
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