Women make up a small segment (8%) of the Australian prisoner population. The majority have committed minor non-violent offences.
Social Sciences
Mar 3, 2017
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Kate Scow, a professor of soil science and soil microbial ecology at UC Davis, keeps plastic bags filled with soil on her desk.
Environment
Mar 3, 2017
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Researchers with the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University are making the best use of our energy waste—turning one of our most potent pollutants and greenhouse gasses, carbon dioxide (CO2), into hydrocarbon ...
Materials Science
Mar 3, 2017
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High levels of narcissism and a weaker sense of peer belonging is leading millions of young adults to take part in deceptive like-seeking avenues on Instagram, a recent Western study revealed.
Social Sciences
Mar 3, 2017
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Two years ago, socially conscious entrepreneurs Rob Ianelli and Ryan Schoenike founded their company, Norton Point, to manufacture sunglasses made from the huge amounts of plastic cleaned up from ocean coastlines.
Materials Science
Mar 3, 2017
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Social media forums like Facebook fail to provide opportunity for users to express nuances of emotion, a feature which makes thoughtful and productive discussions about politics and other sensitive topics difficult, says ...
Social Sciences
Mar 3, 2017
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Chances are that you don't think about industrial agriculture and its effect on the environment and local farming when you're going through the drive-through of your favorite fast-food restaurant. You are hurriedly trying ...
Environment
Mar 3, 2017
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Data from a recent survey by the Center for Survey Research at Penn State Harrisburg shows how Pennsylvanians view key policing topics, including what defines police legitimacy and whether or not police wearing body cameras ...
Social Sciences
Mar 3, 2017
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Galileo called mathematics the "language with which God wrote the universe." He described a picture-language, and now that language has a new dimension.
General Physics
Mar 3, 2017
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MIT physicists have created a new form of matter, a supersolid, which combines the properties of solids with those of superfluids.
Quantum Physics
Mar 3, 2017
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