Why do you keep your house so cold? Childhood home temperature can predict adult thermostat settings, study suggests

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Childhood home temperature and community connectedness may help predict how U.S. residents adjust their thermostats, offering new ways to promote energy conservation and fight climate change,…

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Physicists’ laser experiment excites the nucleus of an atom and could enable a new type of atomic clock

Laser light passing through the transparent crystal and exciting the thorium nucleus. Credit: James Terhune, Hudson Group, UCLA For nearly 50 years, physicists have dreamed of the secrets they could…

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