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October 2, 2023
Wild Asian Elephants Display Unique Puzzle Solving Skills
Sep. 28, 2023 — A new study has documented the abilities of individual wild Asian elephants to access food by solving puzzles that unlocked storage boxes. It is the first research study to show that individual wild elephants have different willingness and abilities ...
Strength Is in This Glass's DNA
Sep. 27, 2023 — Scientists were able to fabricate a pure form of glass and coat specialized pieces of DNA with it to create a material that was not only stronger than steel, but incredibly ...
Down Goes Antimatter! Gravity's Effect on Matter's Elusive Twin Is Revealed
Sep. 27, 2023 — For the first time, in a unique laboratory experiment at CERN, researchers have observed individual atoms of antihydrogen fall under the effects of gravity. In confirming antimatter and regular matter are gravitationally attracted, the finding rules ...
Study Sheds New Light on Strange Lava Worlds
Sep. 27, 2023 — In a new study, scientists have shown that sweeping molten oceans have a large influence on the observed properties of hot rocky Super-Earths, such as their size and evolutionary ...
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Exercise-Mimicking Drug Sheds Weight, Boosts Muscle Activity in Mice
Sep. 25, 2023 — A new drug encourages weight loss and increases endurance by making the body act like it is ...
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New Study Provides Evidence for More Effective Brain-Based Treatment of Chronic Back Pain
Sep. 28, 2023 — A new study may provide key answers to how to help people experiencing chronic back pain. The study examined the critical connection between the brain and pain for treating chronic pain. Specifically, they looked at the importance of pain attributions, which are people's beliefs about the underlying causes of their pain, to reduce chronic back ...
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Origin of Cultural Learning: Babies Imitate Because They Are Imitated
Sep. 27, 2023 — A new study shows that babies learn to imitate others because they themselves are imitated by ...
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New Information on the Most Important Early Stage of Embryonic Development
Sep. 27, 2023 — A new discovery by researchers challenges our current understanding of gastrulation, the most important stage of early embryonic ...
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Scientists Unveil Fire-Safe Fuel
Sep. 28, 2023 — Chemical engineers have designed a fuel that ignites only with the application of electric current. Since it doesn't react to flames and cannot start accidental fires during storage or transport, it is a 'safe' liquid ...
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Novel Battery Technology With Negligible Voltage Decay
Sep. 28, 2023 — A pivotal breakthrough in battery technology that has profound implications for our energy future has been ...
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Accelerating Sustainable Semiconductors With 'Multielement Ink'
Sep. 28, 2023 — Scientists have demonstrated 'multielement ink' -- the first 'high-entropy' semiconductor that can be processed at low-temperature or room temperature. The new material could enable cost-effective and energy-efficient semiconductor ...
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Did Life Exist on Mars? Other Planets? With AI's Help, We May Know Soon
Sep. 25, 2023 — Scientists have discovered a simple and reliable test for signs of past or present life on other planets -- 'the holy grail of astrobiology.' Researchers report that, with 90% accuracy, their artificial intelligence-based method distinguished modern and ancient biological samples from those of abiotic ...
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Capturing CO2 With Electricity: A Microbial Enzyme Inspires Electrochemistry
Sep. 28, 2023 — Humanity continuously emits greenhouse gases and thereby worsens global warming. Increasing research efforts go into developing strategies to convert these gases, such as carbon dioxide (CO2), into valuable products. CO2 accumulates dramatically over the years and is chemically very stable, thus challenging to transform. Yet, for billions of ...
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Genome Study Reveals 30 Years of Darwin's Finch Evolution
Sep. 29, 2023 — An international team of researchers has released a landmark study on contemporary evolutionary change in natural populations. Their study uses one of the largest genomic datasets ever produced for animals in their natural environment, comprising nearly 4,000 Darwin's finches. The study has revealed the genetic basis of adaptation in this iconic ...
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Allergy Study on 'Wild' Mice Challenges the Hygiene Hypothesis
Sep. 29, 2023 — The notion that some level of microbial exposure might reduce our risk of developing allergies has arisen over the last few decades and has been termed the hygiene hypothesis. Now, an article challenges this hypothesis by showing that mice with high infectious exposures from birth have the same, if not an even greater ability to develop allergic immune responses than 'clean' laboratory ...
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Insights Into Early Snake Evolution Through Brain Analysis
Sep. 29, 2023 — Recent study sheds new light on the enigmatic early evolution of snakes by examining an unexpected source: their brains. The results emphasize the significance of studying both the soft parts of animals’ bodies and their bones for understanding how animals ...
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Health News
October 2, 2023
Scientists Regenerate Neurons That Restore Walking in Mice After Paralysis from Spinal Cord Injury
Sep. 21, 2023 — In a new study in mice, researchers have uncovered a crucial component for restoring functional activity after spinal cord injury. The neuroscientists have shown that re-growing specific neurons back ...
New Evidence Indicates Patients Recall Death Experiences After Cardiac Arrest
Sep. 14, 2023 — Up to an hour after their hearts had stopped, some patients revived by cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) had clear memories afterward of experiencing death and had brain patterns while unconscious ...
Healthy Lifestyle Can Help Prevent Depression -- And New Research May Explain Why
Sep. 11, 2023 — A healthy lifestyle that involves moderate alcohol consumption, a healthy diet, regular physical activity, healthy sleep and frequent social connection, while avoiding smoking and too much sedentary ...
Researchers Grow Embryonic Humanized Kidneys Inside Pigs for 28 Days
Sep. 7, 2023 — Researchers have successfully created chimeric embryos containing a combination of human and pig cells. When transferred into surrogate pig mothers, the developing humanized kidneys had normal structure and tubule formation after 28 days. This is ...
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Toxic Formaldehyde's Dual Nature to Be Probed With New Chemical Tool
Sep. 28, 2023 — Newly developed ompounds aim to reveal the dual nature of formaldehyde, a chemical that is known to cause cancer but is also believed to play important roles in our ...
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Antibiotics Can Help Some Bacteria Survive for Longer
Sep. 25, 2023 — Scientists have found a surprising effect of some antibiotics on certain bacteria -- that the drugs can sometimes benefit bacteria, helping them live ...
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Through the Backdoor: How Phosphate Escapes from Actin
Sep. 28, 2023 — Actin filaments are dynamic protein-fibers in the cell built from single actin proteins. Many cellular functions, including cell movement, are regulated by constant filament assembly and disassembly. The disassembly phase is initiated by the release of a phosphate group from inside the filament, but the details of this process have puzzled scientists since decades. Researchers have now precisely ...
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Scientists Shed Light on How Stressed Cells Sequester Protein-Forming mRNAs
Sep. 28, 2023 — Researchers have illuminated one of the important ways that cells respond to stress. The findings could also be relevant to Alzheimer's, ALS and other diseases in which this mechanism may be abnormally ...
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Metaphors for Human Fertilization Are Evolving, Study Shows
Oct. 1, 2023 — In a common metaphor used to describe human fertilization, sperm cells are competitors racing to penetrate a passive egg. But as critics have noted, the description is also a 'fairy tale,' rooted in cultural beliefs about masculinity and femininity. A new study by sociologists provides evidence that this metaphor remains widely used despite the profound shift in recent decades in social and ...
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Parkinson's: Are Our Neurons More Vulnerable at Night?
Sep. 28, 2023 — Disturbances in sleep patterns and the internal biological clock are frequently associated with Parkinson's disease. However, the link between biological rhythm and neuronal degeneration remains unclear. A team investigated the destruction of neurons at different times of the day, using the fruit fly as a study model. The scientists discovered that the type of cellular stress involved in ...
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Compensation by Healthy Brain Parts Alleviates Parkinson Symptoms
Sep. 28, 2023 — In Parkinson's disease, the cerebral cortex can take over tasks from a deeper part of the brain that has been damaged, where cells that make dopamine have been lost. The strength of compensation by the cerebral cortex determines how many symptoms people have. Patients can stimulate this compensation through sports, for example, and thus slow down the disease ...
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Protein P53 Regulates Learning, Memory, Sociability in Mice
Sep. 28, 2023 — Researchers have established the protein p53 as critical for regulating sociability, repetitive behavior, and hippocampus-related learning and memory in mice, illuminating the relationship between the protein-coding gene TP53 and neurodevelopmental and conditions like autism spectrum ...
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Walking More Than Five Flights of Stairs a Day Can Cut Risk of Heart Disease by 20 Percent, Study Says
Sep. 29, 2023 — A new study has found that walking up more than five flights of stairs a day could reduce risk of cardiovascular disease by 20 ...
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Can ChatGPT Help Us Form Personal Narratives?
Sep. 29, 2023 — New research found that the language model can produce accurate personal narratives from stream-of-consciousness ...
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Skin Behind the Ears and Between the Toes Can Host a Collection of Unhealthy Microbes
Sep. 29, 2023 — Scrubbing behind the ears and between the toes may help keep the skin in those regions healthy, new research suggests. The microbiome, or the collection of microbes living on and in the human body, are known to play a role in human health and the skin is no different. A new study has shown that the composition of the skin microbiome varies across ...
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Wearable Device Data Reveals That Reduced Sleep and Activity in Pregnancy Is Linked to Premature Birth Risk
Sep. 28, 2023 — Data from wearables show that deviations from normal sleep and activity in pregnancy are connected to a risk for premature delivery, a new study ...
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Physical/Tech News
October 2, 2023
Astronomers Find Abundance of Milky Way-Like Galaxies in Early Universe, Rewriting Cosmic Evolution Theories
Sep. 22, 2023 — Galaxies from the early Universe are more like our own Milky Way than previously thought, flipping the entire narrative of how scientists think about structure formation in the Universe, according to ...
Water World? Methane, Carbon Dioxide in Atmosphere of Massive Exoplanet
Sep. 11, 2023 — A new investigation with NASA's James Webb Space Telescope into K2-18 b, an exoplanet 8.6 times as massive as Earth, has revealed the presence of carbon-bearing molecules including methane and carbon dioxide. Webb's discovery adds to recent studies ...
Vast Bubble of Galaxies Discovered, Given Hawaiian Name
Sep. 5, 2023 — The immense bubble is 820 million light years from Earth and believed to be a fossil-like remnant of the birth of the ...
A Step Closer to Digitizing the Sense of Smell: Model Describes Odors Better Than Human Panelists
Aug. 31, 2023 — A main crux of neuroscience is learning how our senses translate light into sight, sound into hearing, food into taste, and texture into touch. Smell is where these sensory relationships get more ...
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Researchers Dynamically Tune Friction in Graphene
Sep. 28, 2023 — The friction on a graphene surface can be dynamically tuned using external electric fields, according to ...
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Unlocking the Potential of Silicon Anode Materials for Commercialized Batteries
Sep. 28, 2023 — A research team presented an analysis protocol to evaluate silicon cathode materials applicable to commercialized ...
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A New Twist on Rechargeable Battery Performance
Sep. 28, 2023 — Rechargeable battery performance could be improved by a new understanding of how they work at the molecular level. Researchers upend what's known about how rechargeable batteries ...
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Watching Paint Dry -- To Understand and Control the Patterns It Leaves Behind
Sep. 28, 2023 — A coffee spill leaves behind a dark stain around the puddle’s edge when it dries. But as drops of paint dry, some look like “fried eggs,” with “yolks” of color surrounded by pristine white halos, whereas others appear uniform. To understand this variability, researchers literally watched paint dry. They found that pigment concentration ...
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Novel Bacterial Proteins from Seafloor Shine Light on Climate and Astrobiology
Sep. 27, 2023 — Researchers have unveiled a remarkable discovery: the identification of novel bacterial proteins that play a vital role in the formation and stability of methane clathrates, which trap gigatons of greenhouse gas beneath the seafloor. These newfound proteins not only suppress methane clathrate growth as effectively as toxic chemicals used in ...
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New Insights Into the Atmosphere and Star of an Exoplanet
Sep. 25, 2023 — A new study of the intriguing TRAPPIST-1 exoplanetary system has demonstrated the complex interaction between the activity of the system's star and its planetary ...
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Hidden Supermassive Black Holes Reveal Their Secrets Through Radio Signals
Sep. 25, 2023 — Astronomers have found a striking link between the amount of dust surrounding a supermassive black hole and the strength of the radio emission produced in extremely bright ...
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Shh! Quiet Cables Set to Help Reveal Rare Physics Events
Sep. 21, 2023 — Newly developed ultra-low radiation cables reduce background noise for neutrino and dark matter ...
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Researchers Propose a Unified, Scalable Framework to Measure Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Oct. 2, 2023 — Increased government investment in climate change mitigation is prompting agricultural sectors to find reliable methods for measuring their contribution to climate change. With that in mind, scientists have proposed a supercomputing solution to help measure individual farm field-level greenhouse gas ...
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Sperm Swimming Is Caused by the Same Patterns That Are Believed to Dictate Zebra Stripes
Sep. 27, 2023 — Patterns of chemical interactions are thought to create patterns in nature such as stripes and spots. This new study shows that the mathematical basis of these patterns also governs how sperm tail ...
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Groundbreaking Mathematical Proof: New Insights Into Typhoon Dynamics Unveiled
Sep. 29, 2023 — A research team has provided irrefutable proof that certain spherical vortices exist in a stable ...
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Making Elbow Room: Giant Molecular Rotors Operate in Solid Crystal
Sep. 29, 2023 — Concave, umbrella-like metal complexes provide space to enable the largest molecular rotor operational in the ...
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Environment News
October 2, 2023
Jellyfish, With No Central Brain, Shown to Learn from Past Experience
Sep. 22, 2023 — Even without a central brain, jellyfish can learn from past experiences like humans, mice, and flies, scientists report for the first time. They trained Caribbean box jellyfish (Tripedalia cystophora) to learn to spot and dodge obstacles. The study ...
Archaeologists Discover World's Oldest Wooden Structure
Sep. 20, 2023 — Half a million years ago, earlier than was previously thought possible, humans were building structures made of wood, according to new ...
Earth's Stability and Ability to Support Civilization at Risk: Six of Nine Planetary Boundaries Exceeded
Sep. 13, 2023 — A new study updates the planetary boundary framework and shows human activities are increasingly impacting the planet and, thereby, increasing the risk of triggering dramatic changes in overall Earth ...
Human Shoulders and Elbows First Evolved as Brakes for Climbing Apes
Sep. 5, 2023 — Researchers report that the flexible shoulders and elbows that allow us to throw a football or reach a high shelf may have evolved as a natural braking system that let our primate ancestors get out of trees without dying. The researchers used ...
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Dense Measurement Network Links Air Pollution and Common Agricultural Practice
Oct. 2, 2023 — The annual burning of crop residue in India causes widespread air pollution, particularly in the northwestern regions. A group of international researchers has used low-cost yet reliable instruments to gauge the effects of air pollution in these ...
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Fish Reveal Cause of Altered Human Facial Development
Sep. 28, 2023 — Some substances in medicines, household items and the environment are known to affect prenatal child development. Researchers tested the effects of five drugs (including caffeine and the blood thinner warfarin) on the growth of zebrafish embryos. They found that all five had the same effect, impairing the migration of bone-forming cells which resulted in the onset of facial malformation. ...
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Vision in the Brain: Hardwired for Action
Sep. 28, 2023 — Brain circuits for vision develop without any kind of input from the retina in ...
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Edges Cause Cilia to Quickly Synchronize Their Beating Pattern
Sep. 29, 2023 — Border regions can cause cilia to coordinate their motion creating a unidirectional wave that is essential for biological functions. Scientists proposed a new model describing this synchronized pattern driven by the border ...
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Biological Particles Play Crucial Role in Arctic Cloud Ice Formation
Sep. 28, 2023 — An international team of scientists has presented research findings that reveal a crucial role of biological particles, including pollen, spores, and bacteria, in the formation of ice within Arctic clouds. These findings have far-reaching implications for climate science and our understanding of the rapidly changing Arctic ...
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Plastic Cloud: New Study Analyzes Airborne Microplastics in Clouds
Sep. 27, 2023 — Plastic waste that accumulates on land eventually ends up in the ocean as microplastics. However, it is now speculated that microplastics are also present in the atmosphere, contained in clouds. In a new study, researchers analyzed cloud water samples from high-altitude mountains in Japan to ascertain the amount of microplastics in them. They also shed light on how these airborne particles ...
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Ancient Plant Wax Reveals How Global Warming Affects Methane in Arctic Lakes
Sep. 29, 2023 — In a new study, researchers examined the waxy coatings of leaves preserved as organic molecules within sediment from the early-to-middle Holocene, a period of intense warming that occurred due to slow changes in Earth's orbit 11,700 to 4,200 years ago. They found that warming potentially could lead to a previously under-appreciated flux in methane ...
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Explosion in Fish Biodiversity Due to Genetic Recycling
Sep. 29, 2023 — The rapid formation of 500 different species of fish in a single lake, each with specialized ecological roles, resulted from a small but genetically diverse hybrid ...
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Did Animal Evolution Begin With a Predatory Lifestyle?
Sep. 29, 2023 — Surprising findings on the development of sea anemones suggest that a predatory lifestyle molded their evolution and had a significant impact on the origin of their nervous system. The researchers were able to show that the young life stages (larvae) of the small sea anemone Aiptasia actively feed on living prey and are not dependent on algae. To capture its prey, the anemone larvae use ...
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Oldest Hunter-Gatherer Basketry in Southern Europe, 9,500 Years Old
Sep. 28, 2023 — A team of scientists has discovered and analyzed the first direct evidence of basketry among hunter-gatherer societies and early farmers in southern Europe in the Cueva de los Murciélagos of Albuñol (Granada, Spain). This site is one of the most emblematic archaeological sites of prehistoric times in the Iberian Peninsula due to the unique preservation of organic materials found ...
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A Turtle Time Capsule: DNA Found in Ancient Shell
Sep. 28, 2023 — Paleontologists discover possible DNA remains in fossil turtle that lived 6 million years ago in Panama, where continents ...
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Glaciers Becoming Smaller and Disappearing
Sep. 25, 2023 — Researchers show that some glaciers have disappeared entirely, some no longer show movement, some are too small to meet the 0.01 square kilometer minimum and some are actually rock glaciers -- rocky debris with ice in the pore ...
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Society/Education News
October 2, 2023
Using Evidence from Last Ice Age, Scientists Predict Effects of Rising Seas on Coastal Habitats
Aug. 31, 2023 — The rapid sea level rise and resulting retreat of coastal habitat seen at the end of the last Ice Age could repeat itself if global average temperatures rise beyond certain levels, according to an ...
Barnacles May Help Reveal Location of Lost Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370
Aug. 23, 2023 — Geoscientists have created a new method that can reconstruct the drift path and origin of debris from flight MH370, an aircraft that went missing over the Indian Ocean in 2014 with 239 passengers and ...
Sweet Smell of Success: Simple Fragrance Method Produces Major Memory Boost
Aug. 1, 2023 — When a fragrance wafted through the bedrooms of older adults for two hours every night for six months, memories skyrocketed. Participants in this study reaped a 226% increase in cognitive capacity compared to the control group. The researchers say ...
GPT-3 Can Reason About as Well as a College Student, Psychologists Report
July 31, 2023 — The artificial intelligence language model GPT-3 performed as well as college students in solving certain logic problems like those that appear on standardized tests. The researchers who conducted the experiment write that the results prompt the ...
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Job Loss Is Linked to Increased Risk of Miscarriage and Stillbirth
Sep. 28, 2023 — Researchers have found a link between a pregnant woman or her partner losing their job and an increased risk of miscarriage or stillbirth. The study found a doubling in the chances of a pregnancy miscarrying or resulting in a stillbirth following a job ...
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Naming and Shaming Can Be Effective to Get Countries to Act on Climate
Sep. 25, 2023 — Enforcement is one of the biggest challenges to international cooperation on mitigating climate change in the Paris Agreement. The agreement has no formal enforcement mechanism; instead, it is designed to be transparent so countries that fail to meet their obligations will be named and thus shamed into changing behavior. A new study shows that this naming-and-shaming mechanism can be an effective ...
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New Method Can Improve Assessing Genetic Risks for Non-White Populations
Sep. 25, 2023 — A team led by researchers has developed a new algorithm for genetic risk-scoring for major diseases across diverse ancestry populations that holds promise for reducing health care ...
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Family Planning and the Fear of Missing out
Sep. 25, 2023 — Among regretful parents, fear of missing out is a key motivator for having ...
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Young Children Do Better at School If Their Dads Read and Play With Them
Sep. 20, 2023 — Fathers can give their children an educational advantage at primary school by reading, drawing and playing with them, according to a newly published ...
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Effective Visual Communication of Climate Change
Sep. 20, 2023 — The consequences of a warming climate frequently dominated the news this summer, from devastating wildfires and floods to deadly heat waves across the globe. Reducing harm from climate change is a challenging endeavor, and it requires comprehensive public education. Thus, the question arises: How can climate change science be made most accessible to the general population, as well as ...
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Breaking in the Black Box of Pedagogical Authority
Sep. 19, 2023 — How does pedagogical authority operate in the classroom? A team has produced one of the first in-depth field studies on this subject. By filming teachers in training over a period of several months, the researchers identified different ways of exercising teaching authority and assessed their effectiveness. They found that strategies based on double addressing -- i.e. addressing several students ...
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Dopamine Regulates How Quickly and Accurately Decisions Are Made
Sep. 19, 2023 — Computer models provide new insight into how the neurotransmitter dopamine controls learning and decision-making ...
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Shape-Changing Smart Speaker Lets Users Mute Different Areas of a Room
Sep. 21, 2023 — A team has developed a shape-changing smart speaker, which uses self-deploying microphones to divide rooms into speech zones and track the positions of individual ...
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What the French Revolution Can Teach Us About Inflation
Sep. 18, 2023 — Study finds that politics, public expectations fuel ...
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Remote Work Can Slash Your Carbon Footprint -- If Done Right
Sep. 18, 2023 — Remote workers can have a 54% lower carbon footprint compared with onsite workers, according to a new study, with lifestyle choices and work arrangements playing an essential role in determining the environmental benefits of remote and hybrid ...
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Top Scientists, Engineers Choose Startups Over Tech Behemoths for Reasons Other Than Money
Sep. 18, 2023 — Non-monetary benefits such as independence, autonomy and the ability to work on innovative technologies are among the key selling points for talented scientists and engineers who spurn working for a bigger technology firm in favor of a riskier ...
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