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Economics & Business Jun 22, 2022

First multigenerational study of Head Start shows significant gains for second generation

New research is the first to show large-scale intergenerational effects of the federal Head Start program that launched in 1965 as part of President Lyndon B. Johnson's War on Poverty. The program continues to this day and ...

Other Feb 4, 2022

American 'hero' plotted massive land grab and broke peace treaty, map discovery reveals

A once-in-a-lifetime archival discovery reveals that a rare map hiding behind a false identity in Washington D.C. was the work of William Clark, the once revered but now increasingly controversial American explorer, Indian ...

Other Nov 12, 2021

WWI soldiers expressed personality and emotions in bureaucratic battlefield diaries, analysis shows

Daily record keeping was introduced during World War One in the British Expeditionary Forces (BEF), designed to record the bare minimum of facts. However, soldiers were also able to express the trauma and chaos of war.

Earth Sciences Nov 3, 2021

Small but mighty NASA weather instruments prepare for launch

Working together, two instruments could open the door for a more efficient, cost-effective way to gather key information for weather forecasting.

Environment Aug 2, 2021

New York City's hidden old-growth forests

In the popular imagination, New York City is a mass of soaring steel-frame skyscrapers. But many of the city's 1 million buildings are not that modern. Behind their brick-and-mortar facades, its numerous 19th- and early 20th-century ...

Plants & Animals Jun 3, 2021

New research reveals ocean noise from shipping traffic reduced during COVID-19 pandemic

The COVID-19 global pandemic upended life around the world and disrupted global economic activity. It enabled a rare opportunity to measure the relationship between shipping traffic and the underwater soundscape in the Monterey ...

Environment Mar 11, 2021

Deep-sea 'Roombas' will comb ocean floor for DDT waste barrels near Catalina Island

When Californians learned in October that the waters off Santa Catalina Island once served as a dumping ground for thousands of barrels of DDT waste, the ocean science community jumped into action.

Environment Feb 3, 2021

A team of climatologists is studying how to minimize errors in observed climate trend

The instrumental climate record is the cultural heritage of humankind, the result of the diligent work of many generations of people all over the world. However, the changes in the way in which temperature is measured, as ...

Environment Nov 3, 2020

Cat 4 Hurricane Eta threatens flooding in Central America

Hurricane Eta erupted quickly into a potentially catastrophic major hurricane Monday as it headed for Central America, where forecasters warned of massive flooding and landslides across a vulnerable region.

Environment Nov 2, 2020

Fast-growing hurricane threatens flooding in Central America

Hurricane Eta erupted quickly into a potentially catastrophic major hurricane Monday as it headed for Central America, where forecasters warned of massive flooding and landslides across a vulnerable region.

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