Study: Gender bias may impact student loan bankruptcy decisions
New research reveals gender bias can creep into student loan bankruptcy court cases.
Economics & Business
Jan 28, 2022
0
2
28/01/2022
Five tips to help preschoolers with special needs during the pandemic
Four months in reading. Five months in math. That's how far children are behind where they should be for their grade level, according to a 2021 report that says the COVID-19 pandemic—and the transition to virtual learning—are ...
Education
Jan 28, 2022
0
2
Human disturbance is the most crucial factor for lynx in habitat selection
Habitat selection in wildlife is a process that occurs at different scales: Balancing advantages, such as high abundance of food, with disadvantages, such as human disturbance. Large predators, with their large spatial requirements, ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 28, 2022
0
7
Image: Crater 'tree rings' on Mars
This feature could easily be mistaken for a tree stump with characteristic concentric rings. It's actually an impressive birds-eye view into an ice-rich impact crater on Mars. Tree rings provide snapshots of Earth's past ...
Space Exploration
Jan 28, 2022
0
77
How climate change shaped the Amazon's land and life
The Amazon basin is one of the most biodiverse places on the planet; its nearly 8 million square kilometers (3 million square miles) may be home to as many as 10 percent of the world's species. Under the Amazon's renowned ...
Environment
Jan 28, 2022
0
44
How climate change will affect plants
We human beings need plants for our survival. Everything we eat consists of plants or animals that depend on plants somewhere along the food chain. Plants also form the backbone of natural ecosystems, and they absorb about ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 28, 2022
0
34
Minority-owned businesses need inclusive policies, especially during COVID-19
Race-conscious policy that provides financial and commercial rent relief, and improved employee benefits and federal data collection mandates for financial institutions, could help prevent the disproportionate economic impact ...
Economics & Business
Jan 28, 2022
0
30
How is snowfall measured? A meteorologist explains how volunteers tally up winter storms
The Blue Hill Observatory, a few miles south of Boston, recorded the deepest snow cover in its 130-year history, an incredible 46 inches, in February 2015. The same month, Bangor, Maine, tied its record for deepest snow at ...
Environment
Jan 28, 2022
0
15
The mechanisms that produce 'menopause' in plants identified
In those plants with a single reproductive episode, called monocarpics, the onset of reproduction is marked by the formation of the first flowers. The signals that control the start of flowering are highly studied (light, ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 28, 2022
0
22
Geoscience researchers call for updated metaphor to help make field more inclusive and equitable
As a Black woman in geosciences, especially a full professor who holds an endowed chair position, Asmeret Asefaw Berhe has jokingly called herself a unicorn.
Social Sciences
Jan 28, 2022
5
535
