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When China cut the social insurance premiums that employers must pay, the reform was designed to lower labor costs and...

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A new study reveals that overlooked organic alkalinity in Arctic margin waters introduces errors of up to 117 percent in...

A 24-year satellite analysis of China's Loess Plateau reveals that growing-season soil drought constrains vegetation productivity more strongly than annual...

Scientists in South Africa have shown that three of the most ordinary substances in a chemistry laboratory — polyethylene glycol,...

New research finds that Kenya's satellite-based livestock insurance consistently failed to match herders' actual drought losses, and that this persistent...

An integrative review by Nigerian architects rejects the idea of a single high-to-low sensory gradient in school design, proposing instead...

Beneath every agricultural field lies a bustling miniature metropolis, home to billions of tiny creatures that most people never see....

Alluvial heavy mineral deposits in central Portugal's Castelo Branco Massif reveal anomalously high concentrations of rare earth elements, titanium, and...