Flooding is common in informal settlements in Bwaise, a neighborhood in the Ugandan capital Kampala. Bwaise's residents are largely excluded from planning and local decision-making processes, and have poor housing and limited ...
Environment
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The new National Officer-Involved Homicide Database (NOIHD), developed by the USC Dornsife Center for Economic and Social Research (CESR) and available to researchers and the public, is providing fresh insight regarding fatal ...
Social Sciences
Mar 23, 2022
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In North American elementary and high-schools, Black and Indigenous students are disciplined through suspension and expulsion more often than their peers. These same groups of students are also more often exposed to adversity ...
Social Sciences
Mar 23, 2022
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The pollen grains of maize, rice and all other cereals, need to store starch as energy deposit for later use during fertilization. A research team, led by Dr. Ivan Acosta from the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Mar 23, 2022
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Researchers from the Institute of the Modern Physics (IMP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and their collaborators from France, Finland, Romania and other countries have recently observed the transverse wobbling ...
Quantum Physics
Mar 23, 2022
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Five factors, including human activity such as road accidents, affect the survival of injured or displaced wildlife, a comprehensive review finds.
Plants & Animals
Mar 23, 2022
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In synthetic organic chemistry, so-called cycloadditions are a particularly important class of reactions. With this type of reaction, ring-shaped molecules can be constructed simply and efficiently by joining ("adding") two ...
Materials Science
Mar 23, 2022
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A breakthrough study by a specialist European research team, including scientists at the University of St Andrews, shows man-made underwater noise pollution is picked up by whales in a similar way they sense natural predators, ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 23, 2022
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The ancestors of many animal species alive today may have lived in a delta in what is now China, new research suggests.
Paleontology & Fossils
Mar 23, 2022
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As Morocco withers under its worst drought in 40 years, experts warn that a combination of climate change and bad resource management could trigger severe drinking water shortages.
Environment
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