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Tokyo Olympics: Organisers pledge for net-zero carbon emissions
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], July 16 (ANI): Organisers of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics have gone for net-zero carbon emissions as one of the main concerns in this year's showpiece event is to mitigate the impacts of high city temperatures on athletes, volunteers, and officials.
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Flutura inducts luminaries from Shell & TechnipFMC into Strategic Advi
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Bangalore (Karnataka) [India], July 16 (ANI/PRNewswire): Flutura Decision Sciences and Analytics, an Industrial AI company that impacts Yield, Uptime and Sustainability outcomes for large scale industrial facilities, just announced the inclusion of industry stalwarts Robert Patterson, Brad B
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China's hydroelectric dams on River Mekong leaving region dry, livelihoods
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Beijing [China], July 14 (ANI): China's construction of large hydropower dams along the River Mekong is causing problems downriver, leaving the region dry having devastating impacts on water availability and the fertile soil that feeds hundreds of millions of people in Southeast Asia.
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Study explores the outsized impacts of rudeness at workplace
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 10 (ANI): A new study has found that rudeness can boost negative emotions, narrowing workers' perceptions and incurring biases in judgment.
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Study evaluates the outsized impacts of rudeness at workplace
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 9 (ANI): A new study found that rudeness can boost negative emotions, narrowing workers' perceptions and incurring biases in judgment. The findings of the study suggested that in certain situations, these behaviours can have deadly consequences.
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Series of sleep loss impacts mental, physical wellbeing: Study
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 7 (ANI): All it takes is three consecutive nights of sleep loss to cause your mental and physical well-being to greatly deteriorate.
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JLR reports 68 pc growth in Q1 retail sales at 1.24 lakh
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Whitley [UK], July 6 (ANI): Jaguar Land Rover said on Tuesday its retail sales for the three-month period to June 30 totalled 124,537 vehicles, 68 per cent higher than 74,067 vehicles sold in Q1 last year.
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Nano-materials shape, form influences their ability to cross blood brain b
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
London [UK], July 6 (ANI): Nano-materials found in consumer and health-care products can pass from the bloodstream to the brain side of a blood-brain barrier model with varying ease depending on their shape- creating potential neurological impacts that could be both positive and negative, a
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UK study finds COVID-19 infection impacts brain's grey cells
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 23 (ANI): A novel study that drew on data gathered by UK Biobank suggests COVID-19 survivors may suffer from a loss of grey matter and other brain tissue over time.
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Butterflies at risk from excess nitrogen: Study
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Bern [Switzerland], June 20 (ANI): The nitrogen present in agriculture, vehicle emissions and industry gets deposited in the soil via the air and impacts vegetation- to the detriment of the butterflies, as researchers at the University of Basel have discovered.
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Political bias impacts believing sexual assault victims: Study
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 16 (ANI): Recently, the findings of new research from Syracuse University Newhouse School of Public Communications revealed a relationship between political biases and attitudes about sexual assault.
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Scientists launch new tool to make climate impact science more accessible
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Berlin [Germany], June 15 (ANI): Data and explanations on global warming impacts - from floods to droughts- are made more accessible to the public by a team of 12 international research institutes.
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