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May 1, 2024
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Apr. 18, 2024 — Land subsidence is overlooked as a hazard in cities, according to new research. Scientists used satellite data that accurately and consistently maps land movement across ...
Apr. 17, 2024 — Even if CO2 emissions were to be drastically cut down starting today, the world economy is already committed to an income reduction of 19% until 2050 due to climate change, a new study finds. These ...
Mar. 6, 2024 — A new study provides a new comprehensive look at the potential for flooding in a combined 32 cities along the Atlantic, Pacific, and Gulf coasts. It predicts as many as 500,000 people will be affected by flooding alongside 1 in 35 privately owned ...
Feb. 5, 2024 — For more than 50 years, the National Hurricane Center has used the Saffir-Simpson Windscale to communicate the risk of property damage; it labels a hurricane on a scale from Category 1 (wind speeds between 74 -- 95 mph) to Category 5 (wind speeds of ...
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May 1, 2024 — Reaching net-zero carbon emissions goals requires finding transformative paths to manage carbon in difficult-to-electrify economic ...
Apr. 30, 2024 — One group commonly misunderstood by voice technology are individuals who speak African American English, or AAE. Researchers designed an experiment to test how AAE speakers adapt their speech when ...
Apr. 30, 2024 — Engineers in Australia have found a new way to make power-pole insulators resistant to fire and electrical sparking, promising to prevent dangerous pole-top fires and reduce blackouts. Pole-top fires ...
May 1, 2024 — The body clock has a significant impact on the performance of NBA players. Data shows vastly better win ratio for home teams from the Western Time ...
Apr. 30, 2024 — As the world faces the loss of a staggering number of species of animals and plants to endangerment and extinction, one scientist has an urgent ...
Apr. 30, 2024 — A new study that looked at nearly 40 million flights in 2019 calculated the greenhouse gas emissions from air travel for essentially every country on the planet. At 911 million tons, the total ...
Apr. 30, 2024 — Electric bicycle rebates have exploded in popularity in North America as transportation planners try to get people out of their cars and into healthier, more climate-friendly alternatives. However, ...
Apr. 29, 2024 — A new study shows that school entry requirements are linked to an increase in human papillomavirus (HPV) ...
Apr. 22, 2024 — America is going the wrong way when it comes to prescribing antibiotics, with 1 in 4 prescriptions going to patients who have conditions that the ...
Apr. 26, 2024 — Scientists have shed light on a new, transformative approach that could help resolve a dispute over the Nile river's water ...
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May 1, 2024 — There's a large and growing body of evidence pointing to potentially negative impacts of social media on mental health, from its addictive nature to disruptions in sleep patterns to effects on ...
May 1, 2024 — Using multiple nicotine products can be associated with higher levels of nicotine dependence among youth and increased mortality in adults, compared with the use of one product alone. Researchers ...
Apr. 30, 2024 — Carbon emissions associated with air travel to professional conferences make up a sizable fraction of the emissions produced by researchers in ...
Apr. 30, 2024 — The inventors of a suite of tests that enable food packages to signal if their contents are contaminated are working to bring producers and regulators together to get their inventions into commercial ...
Apr. 26, 2024 — In unincorporated communities in the United States-Mexico borderlands, historically and socially marginalized populations become invisible to the healthcare system, showing that geography acts as a ...
Apr. 26, 2024 — Adding a pre-ketone supplement -- a component of a high-fat, low-carb ketogenic diet -- to a type of cancer therapy in a laboratory setting was highly effective for treating prostate cancer, ...
Apr. 25, 2024 — Global biodiversity has declined between 2% and 11% during the 20th century due to land-use change alone, according to a large multi-model study. Projections show climate change could become the main ...
Apr. 25, 2024 — Companies' emissions reduction targets should not be the sole measure of corporate climate ambition, according to a new perspective ...
Apr. 24, 2024 — A new survey has found that for residents living within three miles of a large-scale solar development, positive attitudes outnumbered negative attitudes by almost a 3-to-1 margin. Researchers ...
Apr. 24, 2024 — AI is a valuable asset, so long as it's used properly, though customer service organizations shouldn't rely on it exclusively to guide their strategies, according to new ...
Apr. 24, 2024 — A new way of quickly distinguishing between illegal elephant ivory and legal mammoth tusk ivory could prove critical to fighting the illegal ivory trade. A laser-based approach could be used by ...
Apr. 24, 2024 — A university professor has found a way to help students -- and himself -- power through long lecture classes: exercise breaks. A new study showed that five-minute exercise sessions during lectures ...
Apr. 24, 2024 — A new national survey finds a broad majority of parents experience isolation, loneliness and burnout from the demands of parenthood, with many feeling a lack of support in fulfilling that ...
Apr. 24, 2024 — An ongoing research aims to create adaptable safety systems for highly automated off-road mobile machinery to meet industry needs. Research has revealed critical gaps in compliance with legislation ...
Apr. 24, 2024 — Countries with limited potential for renewables could save up to 20 percent of costs for green steel and up to 40 percent for green chemicals from green hydrogen if they relocated their ...
Apr. 24, 2024 — A computer game helped upper secondary school students become better at distinguishing between reliable and misleading ...
Apr. 24, 2024 — Researchers have created a coastal evolution model to analyze how coastal management activities on barrier islands, meant to adapt to sea-level rise, can disrupt natural processes that are keeping ...
Apr. 24, 2024 — A multidisciplinary research team has combined ancient DNA data with a clear archaeological, anthropological and historical context to reconstruct the social dynamics of Avar-period steppe descent ...
Apr. 24, 2024 — Crossing roads for children can be a risky calculation, especially when the vehicles are self-driven. In a new study, researchers determined pre-teenage children are safest when self-driving vehicles ...
Apr. 23, 2024 — A team of researchers found that long-tie connections accelerate the speed of social ...
Wednesday, May 1, 2024
- Social-Media Break Has Huge Impact on Young Women's Body Image, Study Finds
- Understanding Youth Nicotine Use to Prevent Initiation and Escalation
Tuesday, April 30, 2024
Friday, April 26, 2024
- How Geography Acts as a Structural Determinant of Health
- Component of Keto Diet Plus Immunotherapy May Reduce Prostate Cancer
Thursday, April 25, 2024
- Climate Change Could Become the Main Driver of Biodiversity Decline by Mid-Century
- Voluntary Corporate Emissions Targets Not Enough to Create Real Climate Action
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
- Positive Perceptions of Solar Projects
- New Study Reveals How AI Can Enhance Flexibility, Efficiency for Customer Service Centers
- Laser Technology Offers Breakthrough in Detecting Illegal Ivory
- A University Lecture, With a Dash of Jumping Jacks
- Survey Finds Loneliness Epidemic Runs Deep Among Parents
- Advancing the Safety of AI-Driven Machinery Requires Closer Collaboration With Humans
- Securing Competitiveness of Energy-Intensive Industries Through Relocation: The Pulling Power of Renewables
- Computer Game in School Made Students Better at Detecting Fake News
- Shoreline Model Predicts Long-Term Future of Storm Protection and Sea-Level Rise
- Decoding Avar Society
- Child Pedestrians, Self-Driving Vehicles: What's the Safest Scenario for Crossing the Road?
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
- Infected: Understanding the Spread of Behavior
- Marginalized Communities Developed 'disaster Subculture' When Living Through Extreme Climate Events
- New Study Uncovers Lasting Financial Hardship Associated With Cancer Diagnosis for Working-Age Adults in the U.S.
- 'Sunny Day Flooding' Increases Fecal Contamination of Coastal Waters
- Social Media Affects People's Views on Mental Illness
- Major Milestone Reached for Key Weapons Component
- Treatment from Female Doctors Leads to Lower Mortality and Hospital Readmission Rates, Study Suggests
- Hey Dave, I've Got an Idea for You: What's the Potential of AI-Led Workshopping?
Monday, April 22, 2024
- Life Goals and Their Changes Drive Success
- Japan's Premodern Concept of Nature at Root of Distinctive Mindset in Early Childhood Education
- New Sensing Checks for 3D Printed Products Could Overhaul Manufacturing Sector
- Study Finds COVID-19 Pandemic Led to Some, but Not Many, Developmental Milestone Delays in Infants and Young Children
- Social Programs Save Millions of Lives, Especially in Times of Crisis
Friday, April 19, 2024
- The Biggest Barrier to a Vibrant Second-Hand EV Market? Price
- How Reflecting on Gratitude Received from Family Can Make You a Better Leader
- Climate Change Will Increase Value of Residential Rooftop Solar Panels Across US, Study Shows
Thursday, April 18, 2024
- Data-Driven Music: Converting Climate Measurements Into Music
- More Sustainability in Global Agricultural Trade
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
- New Data Identifies Trends in Accidental Opioid Overdoses in Children
- Substantial Global Cost of Climate Inaction
- Gender Stereotypes in Schools Impact on Girls and Boys With Mental Health Difficulties, Study Finds
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
- Scientists Develop Framework to Measure Plastic Emissions and Bolster U.N. Efforts to Reduce Pollution
- Study Reveals How Humanity Could Unite to Address Global Challenges
- Fires Pose Growing Worldwide Threat to Wildland-Urban Interface
- Florida Wildlife Corridor Eases Worst Impacts of Climate Change
- Most Countries Struggle to Meet Climate Pledges from 2009
Monday, April 15, 2024
- Global North Energy Outsourcing Demands More Attention
- How Trauma Gets 'under the Skin'
- GeoAI Technologies for Sustainable Urban Development
- The Joy of Sports: How Watching Sports Can Boost Well-Being
- School Suspensions and Exclusions Put Vulnerable Children at Risk
Friday, April 12, 2024
Thursday, April 11, 2024
- New Computer Vision Tool Wins Prize for Social Impact
- Study Finds Increased Anxiety and PTSD Among People Who Remained in Ukraine
- Economist: Tens of Billions of Dollars in Forest Products Are Being Overlooked
- Hybrid Intelligence Can Reconcile Biodiversity and Agriculture
- Food Security in Developed Countries Shows Resilience to Climate Change
- Economic Burden of Childhood Verbal Abuse by Adults Estimated at $300 Billion Globally
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
- U.S. Building Footprints Could Help Identify Neighborhood Sociodemographic Traits
- Economic Wealth May Be Linked With Happiness in China -- If Inequality Is Low
- Mixed Diets Balance Nutrition and Carbon Footprint
- The Evolving Attitudes of Gen X Toward Evolution
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
Monday, April 8, 2024
- Are Lab-Grown Brain Tissues Ethical? There Is No No-Brainer Answer
- Atmospheric and Economic Drivers of Global Air Pollution
- How Climate Change Will Impact Food Production and Financial Institutions
- Low Cardiorespiratory Fitness in Youth Is Associated With Decreased Work Ability Throughout Adulthood
- More Premature Babies Born Following Swedish Parental Leave Policy
Thursday, April 4, 2024
- Researchers Envision Sci-Fi Worlds Involving Changes to Atmospheric Water Cycle
- Adult Fish Struggle to Bounce Back in Marine Protected Areas
- With the Planet Facing a 'polycrisis', Biodiversity Researchers Uncover Major Knowledge Gaps
- One-Third of Ride-Share Drivers Have Had a Crash on the Job, Survey Finds
- Nudging in a Virtual Supermarket for More Animal Welfare
- New Privacy-Preserving Robotic Cameras Obscure Images Beyond Human Recognition
- Climate Change Impacts Terrorist Activity
Wednesday, April 3, 2024
- Research Shows Direct Link Between State Income Taxes and Migration
- Life Expectancy Increased as World Addressed Major Killers Including Diarrhea, Lower Respiratory Infections, and Stroke
- Out of the Park: New Research Tallies Total Carbon Impact of Tourism at Yellowstone
- Experiencing Extreme Weather Predicts Support for Policies to Mitigate Effects of Climate Change
- For Mining in Arid Regions to Be Responsible, We Must Change How We Think About Water
- Talking Politics With Strangers Isn't as Awful as You'd Expect, Research Suggests
- Working Outside the Typical 9-5 in Younger Adulthood May Be Linked With Worse Health Decades Later
- Exploring the Effect of the Presence of Familiar People in Interpersonal Space
- Testing Environmental Water to Monitor COVID-19 Spread in Unsheltered Encampments
- Gunshots in American Cities Twice as Likely at Night, Potentially Disrupting Sleep for Those in Earshot, Study Finds
- Are Universities Connected to Local Sustainability? A New Study Suggests Yes...and No.
- Research Reveals Pre-Collapse Monitoring of Kakhovka Dam, Ukraine
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
- Last Chance to Record Archaic Greek Language 'heading for Extinction'
- Increasing Positive Affect in Adolescence Could Lead to Improved Health and Well-Being in Adulthood
- Scientists' Urgent Call: End Destruction and Forge a Just, Sustainable Future
- Companies Ignoring Climate Risks Get Punished by Markets, New Study Reveals
- AI Writing, Illustration Emits Hundreds of Times Less Carbon Than Humans, Study Finds
- Gloom and Doom Warnings About Climate Change Do Not Work
Monday, April 1, 2024
- Reducing Late-Night Alcohol Sales Curbed All Violent Crimes by 23% Annually in a Baltimore Neighborhood
- Research Reveals Language Barriers Limit Effectiveness of Cybersecurity Resources
Friday, March 29, 2024
Thursday, March 28, 2024
- Is It the School, or the Students?
- Making the Future Too Bright: How Wishful Thinking Can Point Us in the Wrong Direction