In diverse schools, friends of the same race or ethnicity are influential in shaping teenagers' sense of belonging, finds new research by a multidisciplinary team including Cornell's Adam Hoffman, an expert in psychology ...
Social Sciences
May 11, 2022
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LGBT+ physicists often face harassment and other behaviors that make them leave the profession, according to a new study, which comes as physics as a discipline has attempted to grapple with equity and inclusion issues.
Social Sciences
May 2, 2022
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China's mountainous southwestern area is home to one of the country's most ethnically diverse populations. In the most comprehensive genetic analysis of the native people there to date, researchers reveal that the ethnic ...
Evolution
Apr 26, 2022
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In 2016, the first ever World Humanitarian Summit brought together 9,000 participants from across multiple sectors and civil society, with the aim of creating meaningful change for the world's most vulnerable. Over 3,500 ...
Social Sciences
Apr 20, 2022
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Do better spatial networks make for better neighbors? There is evidence that they do, according to Paige Bollen, a sixth-year political science graduate student at MIT. The networks Bollen works with are not virtual but physical, ...
Social Sciences
Apr 14, 2022
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Residing in the hills of southern Thailand, the Maniq comprise one of the last hunter-gatherer communities in the world. Although the Maniq are geographically isolated, they share many cultural features with the Semang peoples, ...
Evolution
Apr 13, 2022
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Teens who are stopped by the police are more likely to report greater disengagement from school the next day, and racial and ethnic minority youth reported more invasive police encounters than white youth, according to research ...
Social Sciences
Apr 4, 2022
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Mysterious giant jars that may have been used for burial rituals have been unearthed across four new sites in Assam, India. The discovery comes from a major collaboration involving researchers at The Australian National University ...
Archaeology
Mar 30, 2022
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Young people from minority groups—such as those from Black, Asian, minority ethnic backgrounds, and LGBTQI+ youth—are more likely to be exposed to and experience online harms than their white, heterosexual and cisgender ...
Social Sciences
Mar 9, 2022
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Over the past two years, public health organizations around the world have attempted to control the COVID-19 pandemic through various means. Social distancing, where people limit close contact with others outside of their ...
Social Sciences
Feb 22, 2022
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