A new sociological study evaluated more than 127 billion words found in publications over a nearly 120-year period to shine a light on the various cultural reasons why society often devalues occupations typically held by ...
Social Sciences
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A potentially worrisome trend is emerging among young adults. Instead of landing a job and moving to the big city after graduation, many are moving back into their childhood homes instead. About 1.5 million more adults under ...
Economics & Business
Oct 7, 2025
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The solvent dichloromethane, or DCM, is commonly used to strip paint and cut grease. It's also what generations of chemistry students have used to dissolve pain reliever tablets in a lab exercise designed to teach them how ...
Analytical Chemistry
Oct 7, 2025
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An international team of researchers has developed a novel technique to efficiently excite and control highly-confined light-matter waves, known as higher-order hyperbolic phonon polaritons. Their method not only sets new ...
Optics & Photonics
Oct 7, 2025
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For years, researchers have puzzled over how the ancient people of Rapa Nui did the seemingly impossible and moved their iconic moai statues. Using a combination of physics, 3D modeling and on-the-ground experiments, a team ...
Archaeology
Oct 7, 2025
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High above us, the atmosphere is teeming with life. Birds, bats and insects share the airspace, but divide it into different lanes of traffic. New research from Lund University in Sweden reveals how the atmosphere is an ecosystem, ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 7, 2025
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Sometimes, the best way to achieve a big outcome is to start small. That principle is at the center of new work from a University of Virginia researcher who specializes in nanotechnology and controlled delivery of medical ...
Bio & Medicine
Oct 7, 2025
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Researchers have developed new software for exploring and communicating animal movements in the wild.
Ecology
Oct 7, 2025
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A rare microorganism found in an unexpected environment may be evading detection by "playing dead," according to microbiologists at the University of Houston.
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 7, 2025
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Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has developed technology to stiffen deployable structures on spacecraft, enabling autonomous spacecraft docking operations. SwRI is currently integrating the Parallelogram Synchronized ...
Space Exploration
Oct 7, 2025
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