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December 21, 2024
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Dec. 11, 2024 — A new study shows that long-term exposure to air pollution contributes to millions of deaths in India. The research emphasizes the need for stricter air quality regulations in the ...
Dec. 10, 2024 — AI predicts that most of the world will see temperatures rise to 3C much faster than previously ...
Dec. 4, 2024 — Exposure to car exhaust from leaded gas during childhood altered the balance of mental health in the U.S. population, making generations of Americans more depressed, anxious and inattentive or hyperactive, according to researchers. They estimate ...
Nov. 13, 2024 — How much land, water, and other resources does our lifestyle require? And how can we adapt this lifestyle to stay within the limits of what the Earth can give? A new article tackles these ...
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Dec. 20, 2024 — We know a lot about how much fossil-derived carbon is emitted to the atmosphere but less about how much is stored in human-made products. Ecological ...
Dec. 19, 2024 — A new study reveals significant improvements in the health of older adults when compared to previous ...
Dec. 19, 2024 — The future of data security depends on the reliable application of quantum technology, but its widespread adoption requires rigorous verification. ...
Dec. 18, 2024 — A fragment of 'lost' music found in the pages of Scotland's first full-length printed book is providing clues to what music sounded like five centuries ago. Scholars have been investigating the ...
Dec. 17, 2024 — If the experience of watching a FIFA World Cup soccer final is intense, spare a thought for the players, who are competing at an ever increasing intensity, according to a new ...
Dec. 17, 2024 — Economists looked at test scores and school attendance for Chicago-area kids before and after a bug infestation wiped out the city's ash trees. Education outcomes for low-income students went down, ...
Dec. 17, 2024 — The social cost of carbon -- an important figure global policymakers use to analyze the benefits of climate and energy policies -- is too low, finds ...
Dec. 17, 2024 — Almost three quarters of adolescents in Australia experience clinically significant depression or anxiety symptoms, with most being chronic, according to a new study. And preventive strategies ...
Dec. 17, 2024 — A new study shows that when clinicians hear a patient described with negatively biased language, they develop less empathy towards the patient and, in some cases, become less accurate in recalling ...
Dec. 17, 2024 — Digital health tools, such as patient portals, treatment apps and online appointment schedulers, are increasingly common. But not everyone is equally at home using ...
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Dec. 19, 2024 — More American cities -- even those seen as affluent -- are home to people living without running water as people are being 'squeezed' by unaffordable housing and the cost-of-living crisis, ...
Dec. 18, 2024 — In a new study, participants tended to assign greater blame to artificial intelligences (AIs) involved in real-world moral transgressions when they perceived the AIs as having more human-like ...
Dec. 18, 2024 — Language and social cognition are fundamental to human communication. But how do these capacities interact? In a review paper, researchers show how language and social cognition are integrated in ...
Dec. 18, 2024 — Artificial intelligence (AI) systems tend to take on human biases and amplify them, causing people who use that AI to become more biased themselves, a new study ...
Dec. 18, 2024 — A researcher has defined 'kindness' and believes this could hold the key to better communication within healthcare teams and improve care for ...
Dec. 16, 2024 — A new psychological study has shown that when people know they are under surveillance it generates an automatic response of heightened awareness of being watched, with implications for public mental ...
Dec. 16, 2024 — Though research has shown that people with long COVID are more likely to be unemployed, the statistics don't reveal what patients go through before they cut their hours, stop working or lose ...
Dec. 16, 2024 — Despite the population being almost four times larger than it was in 1982, a new study published in the journal Ecology suggests the northern muriqui monkeys remain at risk, especially in the face of ...
Dec. 16, 2024 — A new article sheds light on how age-related changes may affect the way we handle finances -- and how we can stay sharp as we ...
Dec. 16, 2024 — How can we ensure that as many households as possible adopt not only solar panels, but also their own battery to store solar energy, a heat pump, and an electric car? Researchers have looked into ...
Dec. 13, 2024 — Tsunamis can cause immense physical damage to ports, but the economic cost does not stop there. The resultant disruptions of shipping lanes result in billions of dollars in losses every day, as was ...
Dec. 13, 2024 — Wildfire smoke has long been known to exacerbate health problems like heart disease, lung conditions, and asthma, but now a new study finds that smoke from these fires can lead to poor health ...
Dec. 12, 2024 — A new analysis reveals that overfishing has caused populations of chondrichthyan fishes -- sharks, rays, and chimaeras -- to decline by more than 50 per cent since 1970. To determine the ...
Dec. 12, 2024 — The study, conducted in the US, found that mothers take on seven in ten (71%) of all household mental load ...
Dec. 12, 2024 — Leafy greens can become contaminated with pathogenic E. coli or other bacteria through splashes of soil or contaminated irrigation water in the field, or through processing and handling. Growers and ...
Dec. 12, 2024 — Research on vaccines may help save more ...
Dec. 12, 2024 — Diverse and inclusive teams are not merely a moral imperative but also a catalyst for scientific excellence in robotics, scientists point out in a study. The team has outlined how a scientific ...
Dec. 12, 2024 — A study by a team of scientists finds that AI systems are also prone to social identity biases, revealing fundamental group prejudices that reach beyond those tied to gender, race, or ...
Dec. 12, 2024 — Plastic pollution is a growing problem in Japan, prompting cleanup efforts to recover plastic litter from water bodies. However, research on recovery rates from different river basins remains ...
Dec. 12, 2024 — An international education expert, argues in a new study for an ecological shift to a 'school within a school' approach that would give students, teachers and parents the ability to guide ...
Thursday, December 19, 2024
Wednesday, December 18, 2024
- Human-Like Artificial Intelligence May Face Greater Blame for Moral Violations
- Tracking Other People's Minds in Communication
- Bias in AI Amplifies Our Own Biases, Researchers Show
- Researcher Defines 'kindness' In Healthcare
Monday, December 16, 2024
- The Psychological Implications of Big Brother's Gaze
- Long COVID's Effects on Employment: Financial Distress, Fear of Judgment
- Threat of Abrupt Mortality Events Keeps Endangered Monkey Population at Risk, Despite Decades of Growth
- Staying Sharp: Study Explores How Brain Changes May Affect Financial Skills
- It's Worth Mixing It Up: What Combination of Policies Will Lead to a Clean Energy Future?
Friday, December 13, 2024
- The Great Ripple: How a Tsunami Can Disrupt Global Trade
- Exposure to Remote Wildfire Smoke Drifting Across the US Linked to Increased Medical Visits for Heart and Lung Problems
Thursday, December 12, 2024
- Overfishing Has Halved Shark and Ray Populations Since 1970
- Mothers Bear the Brunt of the 'mental Load,' Managing 7 in 10 Household Tasks
- Evaluating Food Safety Control Strategies for Produce Industry
- Model Advances Rational Design of More Effective Maternal Vaccines for Newborns
- Diversity and Inclusion Accelerate the Pace of Innovation in Robotics
- 'Us' Vs. 'them' Biases Plague AI, Too
- Researchers Reveal Key Factors Behind Japan's Plastic Waste Removal Rates in Rivers
- Education Scholar Calls for Ecological Shift to 'school Within a School' To Give Students Autonomy Needed for Success
- Too Much Screen Time Can Reduce Sleep Quality in Preschool-Age Children, Making Behavioral Problems Worse
- Researchers Reduce Bias in AI Models While Preserving or Improving Accuracy
- Water and Forests in Southern US
Wednesday, December 11, 2024
- The Global Divide Between Longer Life and Good Health
- Adoption of AI Calls for New Kind of Communication Competence from Sales Managers
- Australia's Extinction Tally Is Worse Than We Thought
- What Is a Unit of Nature? New Framework Shows the Challenges Involved With Establishing a Biodiversity Credit Market
Tuesday, December 10, 2024
- Soda Taxes Don't Just Affect Sales: They Help Change People's Minds
- Mothers' Language Choices Have Double the Impact in Bilingual Families
- Better Environmental Performance Boosts Profits and Cuts Costs
- Work Satisfaction, Pay Are Worse for Those Who Stutter, Study Finds
- These Are Now the Smokiest Cities in America
- Young Children Less Likely Than Adults to See Discrimination as Harmful, Researchers Find
- Human Disruption Is Driving 'winner' And 'loser' Tree Species Shifts Across Brazilian Forests
- Increased Area Income Improves Birthweight Rates, Researchers Find
- Long-Distance Friendships Can Provide Conservation Benefits
- AI Predicts Earth's Peak Warming
- Tourism Leads the Pack in Growing Carbon Emissions
- Americans Are Uninformed About and Undervaccinated for HPV
Monday, December 9, 2024
- What Motivates Americans to Eat Less Red Meat?
- Finding the Weak Points: New Method to Prevent Train Delay Cascades
- Judging Knots Throws People for a Loop
- Hair Growth Drug Safe at Low Doses for Breast Cancer Patients
- Giving a Gift? Better Late Than Never, Study Finds
- Loneliness and Isolation: Back to Pre-Pandemic Levels, but Still High, for Older Adults
- Readers Trust News Less When AI Is Involved, Even When They Don't Understand to What Extent
- Fetal Defense: Study Reveals Early Immune Protection in the Womb
Friday, December 6, 2024
- Scientists Urged to Pull the Plug on 'bathtub Modeling' Of Flood Risk
- High Heat Is Preferentially Killing the Young, Not the Old, New Research Finds
- How Neighborhood Enhances Cooperation
- Antipsychotic Medications Don't Always Work the Way They're Supposed to
- Emoji Use May Depend on Emotional Intelligence and Attachment Style
- Increases in U.S. Life Expectancy Forecasted to Stall by 2050, Poorer Health Expected to Cause Nation's Global Ranking to Drop
Thursday, December 5, 2024
- Mangroves Save $855 Billion in Flood Protection Globally, New Study Shows
- Climate Change Threatens Global Food Supply: Scientists Call for Urgent Action
- Cardiovascular Disease Symptoms Surprisingly High in Young Refugees
- In Five Cancer Types, Prevention and Screening Have Been Major Contributors to Saving Lives
Wednesday, December 4, 2024
- Study Explores Risks of Chemical Exposure from Household Products
- AI Helps Researchers Dig Through Old Maps to Find Lost Oil and Gas Wells
- Perceptions of Parent Cannabis Use Shape Teen Attitudes
- Owning a Home in the US Linked to Longer Life
- Largest Study of CTE in Male Ice Hockey Players Finds Odds Increased 34% With Each Year Played
- Uganda: Major Survey Brings New Light to Carnivore Conservation
Tuesday, December 3, 2024
- Alaska's Changing Environment
- Countdown to an Ice-Free Arctic: New Research Warns of Accelerated Timelines
- Regional, Racial, and Economic Disparities in Cancer Risk from Air Pollution Exposure Persist, but Improving, New Research Suggests
- Study Finds American, Canadian Universities Vary Widely in Preparing Future Urban Planners for Climate Change
- A Caving Expedition Yields Valuable Insight Into the Challenges of Field Research
- Overlooked Emissions in California's Salton Sea Air Basin
Monday, December 2, 2024
- Cosmetic Dermatology in the Digital Age
- Digital Twins of the Earth Is a Misleading Term as Computer Models Are Always a Simplified Representation of Reality
- 'I Don't Feel Your Pain': How Alcohol Increases Aggression
- Revisiting Vitamin D Guidelines
- Racial Disparities in Sudden Cardiac Arrest and Death Among Athletes
Friday, November 29, 2024
Thursday, November 28, 2024
Wednesday, November 27, 2024
- Sound of Traffic Increases Stress and Anxiety, Study Finds
- Global Food Yields Have Grown Steadily During Last Six Decades, Study Finds
- Caregivers Experience Decline in Well-Being
- Moving 'hotspot' Created World's Longest Straight Underwater Mountain Belt
Tuesday, November 26, 2024
- Eliminating Physical Activity Disparities Between Male and Female Youth Could Save Hundreds of Millions of Dollars, New Study Says
- Recovery of Testing for Heart Disease Risk Factors Post-COVID Remains Patchy
- Two-Way Water Transfers Can Ensure Reliability, Save Money for Urban and Agricultural Users During Drought in Western U.S.
- Delay and Pay: Climate Tipping Point Costs Quadruple After Waiting
- Researchers Highlight Nobel-Winning AI Breakthroughs and Call for Interdisciplinary Innovation
Monday, November 25, 2024
- Sub-Saharan Africa Leads Global HIV Decline
- 'Biodiversity Is Not a Luxury': Connection Between Wealth and Ecosystem Health
- Managing Forests With Smart Technologies
- Political Opinions Influence Our Choice of Chocolate
- Researchers Develop Tools to Examine Neighborhood Economic Effects on Spinal Cord Injury Outcomes
- Social Networked Friendship Quality Can Be Means of Combating Loneliness
- Women Who Suffer Pregnancy Complications Have Fewer Children
- Online Health Care Reviews Turned Negative Following COVID Pandemic
Friday, November 22, 2024
- Need a Landing Pad for Helicopter Parenting? Frame Tasks as Learning
- Exploring Factors Affecting Workers' Acquisition of Exercise Habits Using Machine Learning Approaches
- Simplicity Is Key to Understanding and Achieving Goals
Thursday, November 21, 2024
- Hear This! Transforming Health Care With Speech-to-Text Technology
- Smarter City Planning: Researchers Use Brain Activity to Predict Visits to Urban Areas
- Confidence Drives Feedback-Seeking Behavior: Insights Into Learning and Motivation
- Fewer Than 7% of Global Hotspots for Whale-Ship Collisions Have Protection Measures in Place