The MIT campus is built to connect people. Some structures, like the Stata Center, the Sloan building, or the Media Lab building, offer large lobbies, flexible labs, and common spaces to enhance collaboration. MIT's Infinite ...
Social Sciences
Mar 23, 2022
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The COVID-19 pandemic has been the most serious public health crisis in a century. It resulted in governments taking unprecedented powers to regulate people's social lives, and undertaking substantial fiscal interventions ...
Social Sciences
Mar 4, 2022
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Atheists in the United States are more likely to conceal their beliefs if they're women, Republicans, southerners or if they've previously been religious, according to new research from Rice University and West Virginia University.
Social Sciences
Feb 28, 2022
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A strong and shallow earthquake shook Indonesia's Sumatra island on Friday, killing seven people and injuring 85, while causing panic on the island and in neighboring Malaysia and Singapore.
Environment
Feb 25, 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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Claims of a supposed "attention war" have seen new technology blamed for a decline in our ability to concentrate—but a major new survey of the UK public by the Policy Institute and Centre for Attention Studies at King's ...
Social Sciences
Feb 16, 2022
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When it comes to reducing food waste, consumers most favor solutions that involve making food donations easier and establishing standards for food date labels.
Economics & Business
Feb 3, 2022
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A study conducted by scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and Vaisala Inc., published yesterday in the Geological Society of America's journal Geology, discusses how ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 19, 2022
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The lockdowns, travel restrictions, and remote working and remote learning that became obligatory for many people around the world during the COVID-19 pandemic may have been inconvenient for some of them but they also represented ...
Environment
Jan 10, 2022
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Young people aged 12 to 18 are unlikely to report receiving, or being asked to share, non-consensual sexual images to their school, parents or social media platforms such as Snapchat, TikTok and Instagram, finds a major new ...
Social Sciences
Dec 6, 2021
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