Are you happy you voted—or didn't?
After people vote, do they think they made the right choice? When they abstain, do they regret not voting?
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Forest fires are not limited to hot or temperate climates
Forest fires and wildland fires are common in summer in the temperate boreal forest, rarer at high altitudes, and unheard of in an ice age at high altitudes - until now. Evidence of wildfires dating back 20,000 years was ...
Environment
Sep 14, 2017
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Diesel is now better than gas, study says
Modern diesel cars emit less pollution generally than cars that run on gasoline, says a new six-nation study published today in Scientific Reports whose groundwork was laid in part by an American chemist now working at Université ...
Environment
Jul 14, 2017
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Like a moth to a flame
In the last decade, 7 million hectares of boreal forest in Eastern Canada have been destroyed by the voracious insect known as the spruce budworm. And the outbreak is heading south again this spring, leaving devastation and ...
Environment
Jun 16, 2017
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A slingshot to shoot drugs onto the site of an infection
An international team of researchers from the University of Rome Tor Vergata and the University of Montreal has reported, in a paper published this week in Nature Communications, the design and synthesis of a nanoscale molecular ...
Biochemistry
May 8, 2017
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Organ donation—a new frontier for AI?
Organ transplants are a game of odds. Success depends on a number of factors: how old and how healthy the donor is, how old and how healthy the recipient is, how good a biological match can be found, how ready the patient ...
Computer Sciences
Apr 24, 2017
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What triggers a high-school student to suddenly drop out?
What pushes a teenager to suddenly drop out of high school? The answer: any number of very stressful "trigger" events that occur in their final few months in class, researchers at Université de Montréal's Public Health ...
Social Sciences
Apr 10, 2017
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Measuring the impact of visitors, not just residents, on a city's crime rate
When a city district is said to have a "high crime rate," it's often assumed the criminals are "insiders," people who live in the area. But what if the criminals are actually outsiders, people who live somewhere else?
Social Sciences
Mar 29, 2017
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Profiting from the fight against corruption
It makes sense for non-governmental organizations to band together to fight government corruption; they get better results that way.
Mathematics
Mar 13, 2017
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Iota Orionis: Pulsating beacon of a constellation
Astronomers from the BRITE (BRight Target Explorer) Constellation project and Ritter Observatory have discovered a repeating one-per-cent spike in the light of a very massive star which could change our understanding of such ...
Astronomy
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