Nearly 80 percent of perpetrators carrying a gun recovered by Pittsburgh Police were not the lawful owners, a strong indication that theft and trafficking are significant sources of firearms involved in crimes in southwest ...
Social Sciences
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Researchers who examined family genealogies from Finland found that the presence of same-sex elder siblings increased the probability that people would disperse to new lands, whereas having opposite-sex siblings had less ...
Evolution
Jul 25, 2016
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Reporting in the journal Cell, Senior Research Scientist Dr. Ulrike Kusebauch, of Institute for Systems Biology (ISB), describes the results of a collaboration between scientists at ISB, ETH Zurich and a number of other contributing ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 25, 2016
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Hate speech in social media can damage or even destroy the reputation of an individual or a company very quickly. Widespread opinion blames the fact that individuals generally write these things anonymously online as the ...
Internet
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A new study examining the effects of technology-mediated interviews found in-person interviews yielded better impressions for the company and the candidate. The paper, "Technology in the Employment Interview: A Meta-Analysis ...
Social Sciences
Jul 25, 2016
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"Man must rise above Earth, to the top of the atmosphere and beyond, for only then will he fully understand the world in which he lives."
Earth Sciences
Jul 25, 2016
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A new study of the movements of sub-Antarctic albatrosses tracked from two remote islands some 5,000 km apart, shows that although the birds from each breeding site take similar routes around the Southern Ocean, they forage ...
Ecology
Jul 25, 2016
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The discovery of an atmospheric time capsule has allowed scientists to directly measure the air that was breathed by Earth's first animals.
Earth Sciences
Jul 25, 2016
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This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image reveals the vibrant core of the galaxy NGC 3125. Discovered by John Herschel in 1835, NGC 3125 is a great example of a starburst galaxy—a galaxy in which unusually high numbers ...
Astronomy
Jul 25, 2016
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Using the Molecular Foundry's imaging capabilities, scientists developed a technique, called "CLAIRE," that allows the incredible resolution of electron microscopy to be used for non-invasive imaging of biomolecules and other ...
Nanophysics
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