The federal immigration appeals process lacks consistency because it reviews a small and skewed sample of cases, according to new Stanford research.
Social Sciences
Apr 21, 2015
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California is experiencing a drought that has gone far beyond a "dry spell".
Environment
Apr 21, 2015
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Princeton economist Harrison Hong has spent much of his career working to understand how and why asset-price bubbles form. Hong, the John H. Scully '66 Professor in Finance, has studied the dot-com bubble in stock prices ...
Economics & Business
Apr 21, 2015
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Many presume bilingual education can level the academic playing field for English learners, but one UC Davis professor calls foul on current practices.
Social Sciences
Apr 21, 2015
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Electronic components are often only a few nanometres in size. According to Moore's Law, a transistor halves in size every two years, for example, which is the only possibility to place two billion transistors in a nanoformat ...
Nanophysics
Apr 21, 2015
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MIT physicists have developed a new tabletop particle detector that is able to identify single electrons in a radioactive gas.
General Physics
Apr 21, 2015
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For a generation motivated by technology and fast-moving information, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has created an energy-tracking app to make reducing day-to-day energy usage more accessible.
Software
Apr 21, 2015
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Only around 60 million kilometres closer to the Sun than Ceres, another large rock is orbiting in the remote asteroid belt: Vesta. Although its diameter of approximately 530 kilometres makes it a bit too small to be counted ...
Space Exploration
Apr 21, 2015
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A fertilized human egg may seem like the ultimate blank slate. But within days of fertilization, the growing mass of cells activates not only human genes but also viral DNA lingering in the human genome from ancient infections.
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 21, 2015
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A new study pinpoints the devastating effects of climate change on ancient Maya civilization, despite attempts to adapt to it.
Archaeology
Apr 21, 2015
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