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Social Sciences Apr 16, 2024

Q&A: For many prisoners, gang affiliation drops off after release

Nearly everyone who enters prison in the United States eventually leaves. In fact, every year about 600,000 people are released from federal and state prisons, according to U.S. Department of Justice data.

Earth Sciences Apr 4, 2024

Researchers envision sci-fi worlds involving changes to atmospheric water cycle

Human activity is changing the way water flows between the Earth and atmosphere in complex ways and with likely long-lasting consequences that are hard to picture.

Analytical Chemistry Apr 4, 2024

Computational chemistry needs to be sustainable too, say researchers

A diverse group of computational chemists is encouraging the research community to embrace a sustainable software ecosystem. That's the message behind a perspective article published in the Journal of Chemical Theory and ...

Astronomy Mar 28, 2024

Three-year study of young stars with NASA's Hubble enters new chapter

In the largest and one of the most ambitious Hubble Space Telescope programs ever executed, a team of scientists and engineers collected information on almost 500 stars over a three-year period. This effort offers new insights ...

Space Exploration Mar 28, 2024

Schools in the path of April's total solar eclipse prepare for a natural teaching moment

Seventh-grade student Henry Cohen bounced side to side in time to the Beatles' "Here Comes the Sun" playing in teacher Nancy Morris' classroom, swinging his arms open and closed across the planets pictured on his T-shirt.

Veterinary medicine Mar 27, 2024

Effective data management plays vital role for smallholder sheep and goat breeding programs

Sheep and goat breeding plays a vital socioeconomic role in the agricultural sector across Central and West Asia and North Africa (CWANA) and beyond, providing valuable resources such as meat, milk, and wool. However, insufficient ...

Environment Mar 26, 2024

Manila confronts its plastic problem through a community-guided protocol

Governments and international organizations have touted the circular economy, in which materials and products stay in circulation for as long as possible, as an antidote to our global plastic problem. (The equivalent of 2,000 ...

Ecology Mar 22, 2024

Court upholds California rules to protect fish, but Newsom wants lenient Delta approach

A Sacramento judge upheld a decision by California's water regulator to cut back agricultural and municipal water use from the San Joaquin River. The decision could lend support for future regulations in the rest of the Sacramento-San ...

Education Mar 14, 2024

Researchers teach kids to code with cultural research and embroidery machines

Even in tech-heavy Washington state, the numbers of students with access to computer science classes aren't higher than national averages: In the 2022–2023 school year, 48% of public high schools offered foundational CS ...

Planetary Sciences Mar 14, 2024

Total solar eclipses provide an opportunity to engage with science, culture and history

On April 8, 2024, there will be a total solar eclipse in Canada. This is an opportunity to experience, learn from and participate in the excitement and wonder. And rather than hiding inside, researchers have been communicating ...

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