Applying for a mortgage is one of the first steps couples take when buying a home, but a new study suggests lenders are less likely to approve same-sex couples.
Social Sciences
Apr 16, 2019
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation is responsible for tracking hate crimes across the country, but the data are notoriously unreliable. Despite the FBI recording an all-time high in hate-motivated incidents in 2017 (the ...
Internet
Apr 8, 2019
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Millions of mammals navigate over thousands of kilometres each year. How they navigate during migration remains remarkably understudied compared to birds or sea turtles, however. A team of scientists led by the Leibniz-IZW ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 5, 2019
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The Human Rights Campaign suspended Google from the 2019 Corporate Equality Index after the tech conglomerate did not remove a conversion therapy app.
Business
Mar 29, 2019
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When people think about artificial intelligence, or AI, they can be quick to jump to the all-too-common sci-fi depiction of a heartlessly rational computer willing to kill people to fulfill its programming.
Machine learning & AI
Mar 26, 2019
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The overriding threat of becoming a distraction is the main barrier keeping professional hockey players from identifying publicly as gay, even though such an admission would likely accelerate a more tolerant hockey culture, ...
Social Sciences
Feb 15, 2019
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Taking electrons out for a spin through the nanoscopic streets of a digital device – without spinning out of control – has challenged researchers for years.
General Physics
Nov 13, 2018
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A new approach to controlling magnetism in a microchip could open the doors to memory, computing, and sensing devices that consume drastically less power than existing versions. The approach could also overcome some of the ...
General Physics
Nov 12, 2018
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In October, major news outlets like The New York Times ran articles with headlines like "Transgender' Could Be Defined Out of Existence Under Trump Administration." Here, the Office of Equality and Diversity's Associate Director ...
Social Sciences
Nov 12, 2018
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RUDN chemists have identified the structure of azopyrazolone dyes. The new development will make their synthesis more eco-friendly. The work of the scientists was published in Reviews in Inorganic Chemistry.
Materials Science
Oct 29, 2018
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