There is reasonably broad support among Dutch voters for a basic income, according to new research by sociologists at Tilburg University. However, this must be subject to conditions. Most proponents favor a "participation ...
Social Sciences
Apr 19, 2023
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Four small rooms, a gym and a lot of red sand—NASA unveiled on Tuesday its new Mars-simulation habitat, in which volunteers will live for a year at a time to test what life will be like on future missions to Earth's neighbor.
Space Exploration
Apr 12, 2023
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Hundreds of volunteers descended on the beaches of the North Sea coast this weekend to collect sea shells as a measure of the sea's biological diversity.
Plants & Animals
Mar 26, 2023
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Childhood volunteering encourages those from politically disengaged homes to go on and vote when they are older, a major new study shows.
Social Sciences
Mar 16, 2023
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Online communities play an important role in creating a sense of connection between strangers. But what happens when the people moderating our favorite online communities quit?
Social Sciences
Mar 8, 2023
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A pair of applied scientists, one with Brand University of Applied Sciences in Germany, the other wtih Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, has found via experimentation that placing shaming tags on packages ...
Australia and New Zealand have both faced a series of devastating floods triggered by climate change and the return of the La Niña weather pattern. So it makes sense that Australia has now sent disaster crews to help with ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 20, 2023
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Nonprofit organizations grappling with increased demand, limited resources and reduced staffing in the wake of a global pandemic rely more than ever on volunteer engagement, but those volunteers are now harder to engage, ...
Social Sciences
Feb 8, 2023
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Forest fires that have killed 26 people and left thousands homeless in south-central Chile in the past week threatened new regions Tuesday as temperatures soared.
Environment
Feb 8, 2023
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Vaitsa Giannoul, a social scientist with European University Cyprus, has looked into the question of which group or groups of people tend to overestimate their own level of intelligence. The study is published in the journal ...
