Four months in, this year has already been a remarkable showcase for existential and catastrophic risk. A severe drought, devastating bushfires, hazardous smoke, towns running dry – these events all demonstrate the consequences ...
Other
Apr 22, 2020
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Violence against animals in video games is ubiquitous. Players can kill or torture animals in various popular games, including Minecraft and Grand Theft Auto V. The rise of this (increasingly realistic) trend in games, along ...
Social Sciences
Sep 25, 2020
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(PhysOrg.com) -- New research argues that the health of the population and the success or failure of many public health initiatives hinge as much on cultural and social factors as they do on doctors, facilities, or drugs.
Social Sciences
Oct 15, 2009
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(Phys.org) —Trees, time lines, and bubbles. All in a day's work for a new research project at Microsoft called ViralSearch, a Microsoft Research project tool that follows the journeys of viral content. This week, Microsoft ...
A new study published in the international journal PLOS One today reveals how scientists use Twitter to communicate.
Social Sciences
Oct 12, 2016
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In bear country, it's normal to find bruins munching down on temptations left out by humans—from a backyard apple tree to leftovers in the trash bin—but these encounters can cause trouble for humans and bears alike. One ...
Plants & Animals
May 28, 2021
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Computer scientists at the University of California, San Diego, the International Computer Science Institute at Berkeley and George Mason University have received a $10 million, five-year grant from the National Science Foundation ...
Computer Sciences
Sep 25, 2012
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(Phys.org) —A team of international researchers working together to better understand how social mobilization works, has built a model using data obtained by the DARPA Network Challenge in 2009. In their paper published ...
Jesse Keenan, a social scientist at Harvard University, who also specializes in climate risk and adaptation strategies, is publicly calling out climate services technology (CST) firms for their questionable methodologies. ...
How will the map of global energy change? Will sky-high energy prices boost renewables? How will the industrial landscape shift? What will the lasting economic impacts be? How will the energy crisis affect climate action? ...
Economics & Business
Dec 22, 2022
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