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Plants & Animals Sep 5, 2022

Decades-long study finds endangered whales are having fewer babies

A world-class collaborative research project has found that the Australian population of southern right whales is calving less frequently and fewer whales visited Australia's coastlines this whale season than expected, putting ...

Social Sciences Sep 1, 2022

Female managers pay fairer, study finds

There are two levels of reference for the elementary question of an appropriate remuneration of work: the markets and the needs of the employees. A study recently published in PLOS ONE by researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute ...

Plants & Animals Aug 22, 2022

Manatee death toll in past dozen years equals current population

Florida's 7,444 recorded manatees deaths in the last dozen years nearly matches the number thought to be surviving today.

Social Sciences Aug 12, 2022

Game of Thrones prequel confirms there will be no sexual violence on screen. Here's why that's important

HBO's fantasy series "Game of Thrones" dominated television and pop culture discourse for much of a decade. Its upcoming prequel series, "House of the Dragon," is similarly generating conversation, although not in ways the ...

Cell & Microbiology Aug 2, 2022

Researchers discover one of the largest known bacteria-to-animal gene transfers inside a fruit fly

A fruit fly genome is not a just made up of fruit fly DNA—at least for one fruit fly species. New research from the University of Maryland School of Medicine's (UMSOM) Institute for Genome Sciences (IGS) shows that one ...

Plants & Animals Jul 28, 2022

Moving sea otters up the Northern California and Oregon coast is feasible, federal government concludes

Relocating sea otters to places in Northern California and Oregon where they haven't lived for generations, including possibly using helicopter rides to move a few dozen from the Monterey Bay area into San Francisco Bay, ...

Molecular & Computational biology Jul 28, 2022

A key process in asymmetric cell division preserves the immortality of the germline

During cell division, chromosomes are replicated into two copies—one for each daughter cell. These copies, called sister chromatids, are usually considered identical. In fact, it's the two pairs of sister chromatids that ...

Social Sciences Jul 7, 2022

Women's help desks in local police stations in India increased registration of cases of gender-based violence

A new study by J-PAL affiliate Sandip Sukhtankar (University of Virginia) and coauthors Gabrielle Kruks-Wisner (University of Virginia) and Akshay Mangla (Saïd Business School, University of Oxford) found that establishing ...

Social Sciences Jun 24, 2022

Want to improve the company's performance? Get more women in the boardroom

A recent study out of the Complexity Science Hub Vienna (CSH) found that companies with female board members tend to perform better. The analysis examined the relationship between female board appointments and corporations' ...

Education Jun 22, 2022

With $10 million windfall, free Seattle coding school for women goes national to speed change in tech's 'bro culture'

Amber Tanaka was burned out.

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