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Ukraine recap: Drone warfare brings new phase to battlefront

Like many people, I first encountered drones when they looked like toys, something fun to play with and be entertained by. Not long afterward, I was waiting for a boat on my commute to work, and a drone hovered overhead, ...

From harmony to civil war: When language turns deadly

For years, Jaroslav Tir has been pondering a perplexing mystery: Why do some countries where a multi-ethnic populace once lived together in harmony devolve into civil war, slaughter and ethnic cleansing?

Spot AI images this election: Fact vs. fiction tips

On Aug. 18, former president and current presidential candidate Donald Trump posted an unusual endorsement to his social media account on Truth Social. Amid a series of photos, he included an image of pop megastar Taylor ...

Researcher studies how violent policies spread among governments

Complexity Postdoctoral Fellow Kerice Doten-Snitker studies how government-sanctioned violence in medieval Germany diffused from one community to another. More specifically, she wants to know what sometimes prevented the ...

Easing bail policy does not lead to increased crime, report finds

A new report by the nonpartisan California Policy Lab (CPL) shows the estimated effects of several bail policy changes in the City and County of Los Angeles, including removing the emergency bail schedule that was implemented ...

Red flag laws may reduce the growing burden of firearm homicides

A recent study from researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health has found that Florida's red flag gun law, which was enacted in response to the 2018 Parkland mass shooting, was associated with an 11% ...

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Q&A: Rwanda is creating shiny, modern cities after the genocide—but this won't help communities heal from the past
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Should misogyny be treated as a form of extremism?
Economics & Business
Global population growth is now slowing rapidly: Will a falling population be better for the environment?
Political science
A world mired in conflict calls for international tribunals that play multiple roles
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Economics & Business
For metro governments, bigger may not be economically better
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AI used by police cannot tell Black people apart: Canada's AI laws need urgent attention, say researchers
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Book: Healing America's divisiveness requires changing how we think
Political science
Q&A: Expert explains how recent Supreme Court decisions and a shift in judicial tactics are reshaping US politics
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The truth about Tasers: What UK statistics and research tell us
Education
Calls for a new 'digital vaccination' for children to tackle fake news and disinformation
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How Twitter—now X—helps with understanding Canadian values and attitudes toward asylum seekers
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Research reveals many laws targeting homelessness are ineffective
Political science
International Criminal Court should adopt 'joint criminal enterprise' criminal liability mode, team argues
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Satellite imagery could aid in seeking justice for human rights violations in Sudan
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US voters speak many languages, but non-English campaigning remains risky for Harris and Trump
Economics & Business
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Copper-based catalyst paves the way for sustainable ammonia production
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Study predicts a new quantum anomalous crystal in fractionally filled moiré superlattices
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Optics & Photonics
A device to sort photon states could be useful for quantum optical computer circuits
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Geoinformatics: Using AI to take better aim against mosquitoes
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Creating an 'imprint' on a super photon
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Researchers explore the nature of a newborn stellar cluster
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Hillside erosion worsening in California due to wildfires and intense rain
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Amazon rainforest fires produce secondary ultrafine particles that may affect weather and climate
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New evidence supports theory that oxygen isotope ratio in seawater slowly increased over last 540 million years
Astronomy
Inside the 'golden age' of alien hunting at the Green Bank Telescope
Optics & Photonics
Experiments demonstrates chiral quantum heating and cooling with an optically controlled ion
Biochemistry
Chemists find new pharmaceutically active substances from billions of newly combined molecules
Cell & Microbiology
Cytophysics: How cells migrate through gaps smaller than their nucleus
Quantum Physics
Researcher discusses a new type of collective interference effect
Environment
Global South cities lack cooling green spaces
Polymers
Depolymerization method achieves exclusive chemical recycling of PET from cloth waste and plastic waste mixtures
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Study suggests pawn loans compound the pain for many

Australia's pawnbroking industry is too lightly regulated, harming vulnerable consumers and leaving them in greater financial distress, according to new research by the University of Melbourne. The work is available in the ...

Growing rural-urban divide exists only among white Americans

Over the past 30 years, the American political landscape has been characterized by a growing divide between rural and urban voters, almost as if they're on two opposing teams, according to Suzanne Mettler, the John L. Senior ...

Economists reveal the costs of sanctions

What effect do economic sanctions have on the countries affected, such as Russia or Iran? What impact do they have on the sanctioning states? And is there possibly an ideal coalition of sanction partners? Economists from ...