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Ecology Apr 12, 2023

Albania pushes out boat to save world's rarest seal

A team of Albanian marine biologists scan the azure waters of the Ionian Sea for a sign of one of the rarest marine mammals in the world.

Education Mar 17, 2023

Young children develop better learning skills when taught by teachers of the same ethnicity, US study suggests

Young children who are taught by a teacher of the same ethnicity as themselves develop better learning and problem-solving skills by the age of seven, new research suggests.

Social Sciences Mar 9, 2023

If you think you understand how incentives work, think again

How can people be incentivized to drive more fuel-efficient cars, be more innovative at work, and get to the gym on a regular basis? Uri Gneezy, professor of economics and strategy at the Rady School of Management at UC San ...

Social Sciences Nov 1, 2022

How Gen Z are using the past to feel positive about the future

Gen Z loves nostalgia. Sentimentally for things of the past is not a new phenomenon nor is it an emotion reserved for Gen Z. But it would appear, judging by the amount of coverage on the topic, that Gen Z have got it bad. ...

Social Sciences Oct 25, 2022

What's in your future? 'Fortune tellers' paper game helps children acquire fine motor and language skills

Making "fortune tellers"—a folded paper game children hold on their fingers and thumbs and practice counting and "telling fortunes" with—has been a time-treasured craft and play activity for generations across cultures.

Plants & Animals Oct 20, 2022

Could an underwater microphone in Pacific Ocean hold the key to protecting whales?

Sitting 280 feet below water on the floor of the Pacific Ocean just 26 miles from the Golden Gate Bridge, a credit-card-sized underwater microphone represents the latest attempt to keep Earth's largest mammals safe from human-caused ...

Plants & Animals Oct 18, 2022

The travails of an alewife: Dams, drought, and climate change

River herring once swam up Connecticut's streams to reproduce by the billion, and then reverse their journey back to sea. In recent years, though, their migration has become increasingly perilous, and their numbers have plummeted. ...

Economics & Business Oct 10, 2022

Three US-based economists given Nobel Prize for work on banks

Former Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke and two other U.S.-based economists won the Nobel Prize in economics for research into bank failures—work that built on lessons learned in the Great Depression and helped shape ...

Economics & Business Oct 10, 2022

Nobel panel to announce winner of economics prize

The winner, or winners, of this year's Nobel Prize for economics will be announced Monday at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, in Stockholm.

Social Sciences Sep 27, 2022

Children's eyewitness testimony can be as accurate as adults' or more so. If interviewers follow these guidelines

Eyewitness memory has come under a lot of scrutiny in recent years, as organizations such as the Innocence Project suggest it was a key piece of information in as many as 75% of wrongful convictions in the United States. ...

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