Globally, heat waves have become an increasingly frequent summer affair, as much of the world faces extremely high temperatures.
Environment
Aug 11, 2022
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22
Every year I ask the college students in the course I teach about the 14th-century Black Death to imagine they are farmers or nuns or nobles in the Middle Ages. What would their lives have been like in the face of this terrifying ...
Archaeology
Aug 11, 2022
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443
In 2021, around 41% of businesses created in France were created by women and only 14% of women were business owners. These figures are on the rise, but the progress is still rather slow.
Social Sciences
Aug 11, 2022
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12
The past two election cycles have seen an explosion of attention given to "echo chambers," or communities where a narrow set of views makes people less likely to challenge their own opinions. Much of this concern has focused ...
Social Sciences
Aug 11, 2022
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12
Dolphins are known to be good at maintaining relationships, but a new study suggests their gregarious nature may extend beyond their own social circles.
Plants & Animals
Aug 11, 2022
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652
A museum specimen has been heard for the first time in 150 years after scientists digitally recreated its song.
Plants & Animals
Aug 11, 2022
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More than 1,000 firefighters were struggling Thursday to contain a major wildfire which has burned a large area of pine forest in southwestern France, in a region that was already ravaged by flames last month.
Environment
Aug 11, 2022
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61
For humans, the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic were a stressful time, marked by fear, isolation, canceled plans and uncertainty. But for birds that inhabit developed areas of the Pacific Northwest, the reduction in noise ...
Ecology
Aug 11, 2022
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67
An analysis of millions of SARS-CoV-2 genomes finds that recombination of the virus is uncommon, but when it occurs, it is most often in the spike protein region, the area which allows the virus to attach to and infect host ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Aug 11, 2022
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85
The road through Cristalina, Brazil is in the middle of the tropics, but the fields on either side look like they are covered in snow—little white puffs of cotton stretching to the horizon.
Ecology
Aug 11, 2022
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25
