Thirty years ago, I traveled to Lijiang, an ancient city in the northwest of China's Yunnan province in the foothills of the eastern Himalayas. Lijiang's old town is a tangle of intersecting waterways, arched stone bridges, ...
Social Sciences
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The pufferfish filling nets in Fukushima are a delicacy that can kill if wrongly prepared. But to a community devastated by a 2011 nuclear disaster, they are also a lifeline.
Environment
Feb 15, 2023
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New research has uncovered the secret of how plants make limonoids, a family of valuable organic chemicals that include bee-friendly insecticides and have potential as anti-cancer drugs.
Biochemistry
Jan 26, 2023
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,Social policy and popular culture promote the two-parent nuclear family as an ideal structure for raising successful, healthy children. But the reality of family life in America looks very different from that: Half of all ...
Social Sciences
Jan 16, 2020
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Social inequality already existed in southern Germany 4000 years ago, even within one household, a new study published in the journal Science finds. Archaeological and archaeogenetic analyses of Bronze Age cemeteries in the ...
Archaeology
Oct 10, 2019
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About 35 percent of children in the United States have lived with a relative other than their parent or sibling at some point by age 18, says a University of Michigan researcher.
Social Sciences
Jan 15, 2019
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Most housing is designed for nuclear families, but most U.S. households don't meet that description.
Hi Tech & Innovation
Apr 17, 2018
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Kinship ties with parents, grandparents, siblings, aunts and uncles and other family members can offer financial, educational, and societal support to individuals of all cultures.
Social Sciences
Sep 30, 2016
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Anyone counting on an inheritance should be aware that in recent years, parents have become increasingly likely to divide their estates unequally, suggests a new study co-authored by an economist at Washington University ...
Economics & Business
Feb 9, 2016
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(Phys.org)—The more scientists study animals and their intellectual abilities, the more it appears that many of them have heretofore unknown abilities that can match some of our own. One such animal is the New Caledonian ...
