(PhysOrg.com) -- Males of an unusual group of wasps fight to the death over females, even if they've already mated or are competing with their own brothers, a new study shows. The behaviour was seen in parasitoid wasps, which ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 9, 2011
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It's no secret that Americans tend to throw their support behind a sitting U.S. president when the nation is thrust into a war or other potentially violent conflict with a foreign foe - a phenomenon known as the "rally 'round ...
Social Sciences
Jun 30, 2010
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In 1960, Lewis Fry Richardson famously observed that the severity of a wartime event is described by a simple power law distribution that scales according to the size of the conflict. Statisticians have since proposed various ...
General Physics
Mar 21, 2024
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Violent conflicts around the world have driven more people from their home countries than ever before. As these individuals and families seek safe havens, new research from Rice University has found that refugee children ...
Social Sciences
Aug 4, 2023
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An alarming number of Nigerians—approximately 25.3 million—are in danger of acute food insecurity during the next few months, according to a recent report from the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization.
Environment
Jun 7, 2023
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The number of armed conflicts currently raging around the world is the greatest since the end of the Second World War. These wars can leave toxic environmental legacies and cause untold damage to human health.
Environment
Jan 25, 2023
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Commentators increasingly warn that the world is tightly bound in a "polycrisis," a tangled knot of crises spanning global systems. But if we have any hope of escaping it, we must think more carefully about what polycrisis ...
Environment
Dec 12, 2022
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Climate change can manifest in different ways: stronger tropical droughts, extreme droughts, warmer climates and highly unpredictable rainfall patterns. All these endanger the availability of food, which in turn could increase ...
Environment
Nov 29, 2022
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The world is falling miserably short of reducing carbon emissions in line with the Paris Agreement, a 2015 treaty to keep global warming well below 2℃.
Social Sciences
Nov 7, 2022
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Water diplomacy means that water must be diplomatised and diplomacy watered.
Environment
Sep 20, 2021
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