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Saturday Citations: Black hole flare unprecedented; the strength of memories; bugs on the menu
This week, researchers reported finding a spider megacity in a sulfur cave on the Albania-Greece border, and experts say that you, personally, have to go live there. Economists are growing nervous about the collapse of the ...
Empowering street vendors in Indonesia through a sustainability-integrated financial literacy program
Earlier this year our Grantham Scholar, Eva Andriani, traveled to Indonesia to conduct some participatory research with a community of street vendors. We spoke to Eva to find out about her experience and the impact of her ...
Economics & Business
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Immigrants share democratic basic values, international study finds
Migrants in Europe stand by the basic values of democracy, according to a new study conducted by a research team led by Professor Marc Helbling, sociologist at the University of Mannheim focusing on Migration and Integration ...
Social Sciences
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Ancient DNA uncovers unknown Argentina lineage that has persisted for last 8,500 years
An area called the central Southern Cone in South America, which consists of a large part of Argentina, is known to be one of the last global regions to become inhabited by humans.
Stone Age Pacific fishing practices revealed through chemical fingerprints hidden in collagen
A new collagen fingerprinting tool can help scientists identify species from archaeological bone fragments. Pacific islanders of the late Stone Age, also known as the Neolithic period, were master fishers. Archaeological ...
Air-filled anomalies in Menkaure Pyramid could indicate a new entrance
Researchers from Cairo University and TUM, as part of the ScanPyramids research project, have identified two hidden air-filled anomalies in the third-largest pyramid of Giza. The hypothesis of a possible entrance at this ...
Archaeology
Nov 7, 2025
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Personal resource banks help new math teachers bridge theory and classroom practice
Teacher education often receives criticism for being too theoretical. Many students lack more training in how to teach in practice when they enter schools. They now receive this at the University of Agder (UiA) through Amalie ...
Mathematics
Nov 7, 2025
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Happy hour with coworkers can be a double-edged sword
It turns out happy hour with your coworkers may not be so happy for everyone. New research from the University of Georgia published in Personnel Psychology suggests that there are both positives and negatives to getting an ...
Social Sciences
Nov 7, 2025
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As retail workers brace for the silly season, this simple solution could dial down customer verbal abuse
More than 1.4 million people are employed in Australian retail and fast food businesses. Sadly, it's not always a happy or safe place to work.
Social Sciences
Nov 7, 2025
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Children's books feature tidy nuclear families—but the animal kingdom tells a different story
Animals in children's stories are often depicted as living in neat mom, dad and children family units. Examples include Fantastic Mr. Fox, 101 Dalmatians and, more recently, Peppa Pig and Bluey. But, this might leave people ...
Education
Nov 7, 2025
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Rapa Nui's catastrophic deforestation: Invasive rats, not just humans, may be to blame
Dr. Terry Hunt from the University of Arizona and Dr. Carl Lipo from the University of Birmingham have published a study in the Journal of Archaeological Sciences, reassessing the role of Polynesian rats (Rattus exulans) ...
Archaeologists examine evidence for Indigenous long-distance voyaging below 50°S
In a study published in the Journal of Coastal and Island Archaeology, Dr. Thomas Leppard and his colleagues, John Cherry and Atholl Anderson, evaluate the evidence for pre-European long-distance voyages below the 50th parallel ...
Cold case solved: Team confirms identity of medieval duke from Árpád and Rurik dynasties
An international project led by Hungarian researchers has successfully identified the remains of Duke Béla, the Ban of Macsó, a member of the Árpád and Rurik dynasties. The investigations have answered a century-old archaeological ...
Archaeology
Nov 6, 2025
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Digital map increases Roman Empire road network by 100,000 kilometers
A new high resolution digital dataset and map—named Itiner-e—of roads throughout the Roman Empire around the year 150 CE is presented in research published in Scientific Data. The findings increase the known length of ...
Archaeology
Nov 6, 2025
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Not-so-model behavior: Popular software tools may give faulty forecasts
Some of the models used to forecast everything from financial trends to animal populations in an ecosystem are incorrect, according to an Idaho State University statistician.
Mathematics
Nov 6, 2025
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Landscape clues suggest Indigenous Peoples have thrived in southwestern Amazon for more than 1,000 years
In September 2021, a multidisciplinary expedition explored one of the least-known regions of the Bolivian Amazon: the Great Tectonic Lakes of Exaltación in the department of Beni.
Archaeology
Nov 6, 2025
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Populist parties choose divisive issues on purpose, researchers say
Populists use controversial issues to a far greater extent than other issues to promote their political messages. This is deliberate.
Political science
Nov 6, 2025
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Plush neuron makes AI approachable, simplifies neural networks for middle schoolers
A team at Carnegie Mellon University is helping kids understand artificial intelligence with a soft, squishy, LED-lit neural network.
Education
Nov 6, 2025
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Arrival of boll weevils in U.S. South brought long-term benefits for Black sons born afterward
Black–white inequality declined during much of the 20th century, as measured by wages and intergenerational mobility. Scholars have attributed this to a variety of reasons, most notably Black migration and increases in ...
Social Sciences
Nov 6, 2025
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Boys are still in the grip of crippling masculine stereotypes: 6 findings from a new survey
Rigid norms of manhood, based in manly confidence and toughness, emotional stoicism, disdain for femininity, and dog-eat-dog banter, are influential among boys and young men in Australia.
Social Sciences
Nov 6, 2025
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