Despite decades of progress, the gender pay gap remains a persistent feature of the UK labor market. According to women's rights charity the Fawcett Society, November 22 marked Equal Pay Day 2025—the day when women effectively ...
Economics & Business
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The next global volcanic disaster is more likely to come from volcanoes that appear dormant and are barely monitored than from the likes of famous volcanoes such as Etna in Sicily or Yellowstone in the US.
Earth Sciences
Nov 25, 2025
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Across state legislatures and in Congress, debates are intensifying about the value of funding certain college degree programs—and higher education, more broadly.
Education
Nov 25, 2025
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School violence is a global public health phenomenon. This is when learners and teachers are the victims of physical and psychological abuse, cyber threats and bullying, fights, gangsterism, and the use of weapons at school.
Social Sciences
Nov 25, 2025
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In the early 1930s, Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky observed galaxies in space moving faster than their mass should allow, prompting him to infer the presence of some invisible scaffolding—dark matter—holding the galaxies together. ...
Astronomy
Nov 25, 2025
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In a re-evaluation of Hockett's foundational features that have long dominated linguistic theory—concepts like "arbitrariness," "duality of patterning," and "displacement"—an international team of linguists and cognitive ...
Social Sciences
Nov 25, 2025
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In recent years, right-wing populist parties have experienced significant political success across nearly all Western democracies. With their increasing political establishment, xenophobic attitudes have become normalized. ...
Political science
Nov 25, 2025
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US media and politicians often celebrate beautiful stories of immigrants arriving in America, finding a new home, and thriving in the land of opportunity.
Social Sciences
Nov 25, 2025
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University of Houston researchers developed a new X-ray imaging method capable of revealing hidden features in a single shot, a breakthrough that could advance cancer detection, disease monitoring, security screening and ...
Optics & Photonics
Nov 25, 2025
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Researchers used the MIRI instrument onboard the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to identify the presence of ultraviolet radiation in five young stars in the Ophiuchus region, and to understand its role in the formation ...
Astronomy
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