A country's cultural values, social norms and policies influence how many children people have—particularly among the religious, new Cornell research shows.
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Researchers have found that the perceived race and ethnicity of a software developer based on their online name may determine how their open-source software projects are judged by others.
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Using the SPIRou spectropolarimeter on the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope in Hawaii, a team led by Stefan Pelletier, a PhD student at Université de Montréal's Institute for Research on Exoplanets (iREx), studied the atmosphere ...
Astronomy
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The spotted lanternfly—an invasive, destructive pest with a wide range of hosts including grapes, apples, hops, maple and walnut—has spread to a growing number of counties in New York state.
Plants & Animals
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Messenger RNA, or mRNA, has been in the news recently as a crucial component of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines. The nucleic acid looks, for all intents and purposes, like a strand of DNA that has been sliced ...
Molecular & Computational biology
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Mitofusin 2 is a key protein in the regulation of the physiology of mitochondria—cellular organelles that produce energy—involved in several neurodegenerative and cardiovascular diseases, as well as in cancer. Now, a ...
Cell & Microbiology
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Growing hemp for CBD (cannabidiol) is a burgeoning industry, thanks to the compound's use in treating everything from pain, anxiety and depression to easing cancer-related symptoms.
Plants & Animals
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From attacks on synagogues and mosques to the COVID-era spike in anti-Asian sentiment, the past couple of years, unfortunately, have seen no shortage of acts of hatred.
Social Sciences
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When molecules are excited, they can give rise to a variety of energy conversion phenomena, such as light emission and photoelectric or photochemical conversion. To unlock new energy conversion functions in organic materials, ...
To support the development of a multiplayer risk-reduction videogame for Black teen girls, researchers at Yale conducted a study that sheds light on the social media habits of these teens in evaluating and choosing potential ...
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