Many colleges are welcoming students back for in-person learning and dormitory living this fall semester. Looming over everything: Campuses could shut back down at any time.
Education
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Wellbeing and decision-making during recovery from disasters such as Australia's summer bushfires and the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic are supported by a new researched-backed resource.
Environment
Aug 19, 2020
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Using NASA's Kepler spacecraft, astronomers have detected a new bright transient event. After further analysis, the newly found transient source turned out to be a cataclysmic variable (CV) star. The finding is detailed in ...
UNSW researchers have found their previous discovery of bacteria living on air in Antarctica is likely a process that occurs globally, further supporting the potential existence of microbial life on alien planets.
Astrobiology
Aug 19, 2020
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Displaying family photos in the workplace cuts down on employee fraud and other unethical behavior, new Washington University in St. Louis research finds.
Social Sciences
Aug 19, 2020
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In the lower Missouri River, a fish with prehistoric ties has learned to live hard—and, too often, die young.
Plants & Animals
Aug 19, 2020
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In a letter to James AH Murray in 1879, the writer ME Lewes wrote "I wish always to be quoted as George Eliot." She perhaps would not have been pleased by a new campaign from The Women's Prize for Fiction and its sponsor, ...
Social Sciences
Aug 19, 2020
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A German icebreaker carrying scientists on a year-long international expedition in the high Arctic has reached the North Pole, after making an unplanned detour there due to lighter-than-usual sea ice conditions.
Earth Sciences
Aug 19, 2020
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Kamala Harris' candidacy as vice president of the United States provoked familiar criticism, based in part on her identity as a woman. Critics find her too angry, too confident, too competitive. But when women do act less ...
Political science
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The bushfire royal commission is examining ways Indigenous land and fire management could improve Australia's resilience to national disasters. On the face of it, this offers an opportunity to embrace Indigenous ways of knowing.
Environment
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