Transgender and gender diverse people want the same thing most people take for granted when visiting a store, restaurant or movie: to be respected, feel safe in their surroundings and to be properly acknowledged when addressed.
Social Sciences
Apr 14, 2022
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Everyone knows that humans and most other vertebrate species hear using eardrums that turn soundwave pressure into signals for our brains. But what about smaller animals like insects and arthropods? Can they detect sounds? ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 29, 2022
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Duncan Watts, a Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor and computational social scientist with appointments in the Annenberg School for Communication, School of Engineering and Applied Science and the Wharton School, has published ...
Social Sciences
Apr 6, 2021
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Materials science likes to take nature and the special properties of living beings that could potentially be transferred to materials as a model. A research team led by chemist Professor Andreas Walther of Johannes Gutenberg ...
Bio & Medicine
Mar 24, 2021
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An interdisciplinary research team at Lehigh University has unraveled how functional biomaterials rely upon an interfacial protein layer to transmit signals to living cells concerning their adhesion, proliferation and overall ...
Biochemistry
Mar 11, 2021
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Bacterial infections have become one of the biggest health problems worldwide, and a recent study shows that COVID-19 patients have a much greater chance of acquiring secondary bacterial infections, which significantly increases ...
Analytical Chemistry
Dec 1, 2020
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The understanding of quantum physics has involved the creation of a wide range of quasiparticles. These notional constructs describe emergent phenomena that appear to have the properties of multiple other particles mixed ...
Quantum Physics
Oct 9, 2020
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By studying sewage at a New Haven wastewater treatment facility, a team of Yale researchers has determined that genetic code embedded in feces could be used as an early warning sign of COVID-19 outbreaks.
Environment
May 29, 2020
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A scientific paper published in 1985 was the first to report a burgeoning hole in Earth's stratospheric ozone over Antarctica. Scientists determined the cause to be ozone-depleting substances—long-lived artificial halogen ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 20, 2020
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Stress is often called "the silent killer" because of its stealthy and mysterious effects on everything from heart disease to mental health.
Analytical Chemistry
May 24, 2019
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