Many women still live in poverty, but we can change this
In its recent gender snapshot, the United Nations noted that: "Globally, in 2023, women aged 55 to 59 are more likely to live in extreme poverty than men."
In its recent gender snapshot, the United Nations noted that: "Globally, in 2023, women aged 55 to 59 are more likely to live in extreme poverty than men."
Social Sciences
Jan 22, 2024
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Marine aquaculture has expanded dramatically over the last two decades to meet growing demand for aquatic foods, but this growth can sometimes come at a cost. New Stanford-led research published in npj Ocean Sustainability ...
Agriculture
Jan 22, 2024
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Scholars and policymakers have highlighted the positive impact of human capital on entrepreneurial activity. Vast attention has also been directed to the beneficial role of pro-market institutions for entrepreneurship.
Economics & Business
Jan 19, 2024
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Several recent experiments identify unusual patterns in particle diffusion, hinting at some underlying complexity in the process which physicists have yet to discover. Through new analysis published in The European Physical ...
General Physics
Jan 19, 2024
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Many adults in the United States do not actively follow traditional TV, print or online news outlets, because they believe the information will find them via social media or their social networks. One in three adults in the ...
Social Sciences
Jan 18, 2024
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Where Earth's atmosphere meets space, a sea of gas particles swirl in a dance choreographed by electric and magnetic fields.
Planetary Sciences
Jan 18, 2024
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With all the negative news coming out about climate change, its impacts and its possible trajectory in the not-so-distant future, it can be difficult to maintain hope for a brighter future.
Environment
Jan 18, 2024
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Heightened global interconnectivity and human pressures on planetary boundaries generate increasingly harmful and extensive crisis interactions that make it impossible to solve any one problem alone, findings published in ...
Environment
Jan 17, 2024
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In the span of one week, two researchers from Leiden are receiving their Ph.D.s, each of them on an important step in the battle against bacteria that are becoming increasingly resistant to antibiotics.
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 17, 2024
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Having more women in agriculture is associated with greater community well-being, according to researchers at Penn State and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Their work is the first to quantitatively assess this link, ...
Social Sciences
Jan 17, 2024
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