In many U.S. states, children can legally marry at an earlier age than they can consent to sex, leading to situations where sex between spouses may be a criminal act. Some states exempt sex between married spouses from their ...
Social Sciences
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Mesopotamia and the Indus civilization were both urban civilizations with large, densely populated and planned cities, 6000–1990 BCE. A new thesis in archaeology points out that the ancient Indus society showed complex ...
Archaeology
Feb 17, 2022
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An antibiotic sprayed on orchard crops to combat bacterial diseases slows the cognition of bumblebees and reduces their foraging efficiency, a laboratory study finds. Proceedings of the Royal Society B published the findings ...
Ecology
Feb 17, 2022
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For the first time, researchers have created a metasurface lens that uses a piezoelectric thin film to change focal length when a small voltage is applied. Because it is extremely compact and lightweight, the new lens could ...
Optics & Photonics
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Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and in Japan have used an ancient fish to reel in new insights about human biology and, in particular, how and why a widely used medication works to abort ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 17, 2022
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Understanding the nitty gritty of how molecules interact with each other in the real, messy, dynamic environment of a living body is a challenge that must be overcome in order to understand a host of diseases, such as Alzheimer's.
General Physics
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Enhanced oversight over the auditing profession and firms' financial reporting has led to a proliferation of models to predict financial statement fraud.
Social Sciences
Feb 17, 2022
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Of the roughly 250,000 known marine species, scientists think all ~126 marine mammals emit sounds—the 'thwop', 'muah', and 'boop's of a humpback whale, for example, or the 'boing' of a minke whale. Audible too are at least ...
Plants & Animals
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Wildfires are burning more severely and more often, urban noise pollution is growing into a global public health menace, and phenological mismatches—disruptions in the timing of life-cycle stages in natural systems—are ...
Environment
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Due to its low density, high strength, and abundance, aluminum and its alloys are widely used for example in constructions, consumer electronics and for vehicles including cars, ships, trains and planes. However, aluminum ...
Materials Science
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