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Environment Apr 12, 2021

States are growing fewer trees. Forest owners say that's a problem

When wildfires ripped through Oregon last Labor Day, they burned huge swaths of forest, including 63,000 acres of smaller, private lands.

Social Sciences Apr 8, 2021

Have children lost an entire year of schooling and social development? It depends, experts say

Children across the country have begun returning to school as new guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggest classroom learning can be done safely.

Social Sciences Apr 6, 2021

Toward a better understanding of 'fake news'

Duncan Watts, a Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor and computational social scientist with appointments in the Annenberg School for Communication, School of Engineering and Applied Science and the Wharton School, has published ...

Economics & Business Mar 25, 2021

Urban 'escalator' means disadvantaged rural students miss out on top universities

Bright but disadvantaged students from urban areas are more likely to enter elite UK universities than similar peers from rural communities due to an urban 'escalator effect', according to a new study.

Economics & Business Mar 24, 2021

How blockchain and machine learning can deliver the promise of omnichannel marketing

Researchers from University of Minnesota, New York University, University of Pennsylvania, BI Norwegian Business School, University of Michigan, National Bureau of Economic Research, and University of North Carolina published ...

Social Sciences Mar 16, 2021

Profits trump COVID‑19 protections for migrant seafood workers in Atlantic Canada

Canada's federal government recently imposed new air travel restrictions in an effort to contain the spread of COVID-19. The government and four major airlines agreed to temporarily stop all incoming flights from Mexico and ...

Economics & Business Mar 15, 2021

Security most important to retaining mobile banking customers, study finds

A study by a research team from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) and China's first digital-only bank WeBank has found that security, service quality and system quality are the most important factors ...

Social Sciences Mar 10, 2021

Improving racial representation in medical learning materials

For Iku Nwosu, a Black medical student at Queen's, sitting in dermatology lectures, and watching slide after slide of skin conditions presented on mostly white skin tones, has been frustrating.

Social Sciences Mar 4, 2021

Research shows dating stereotypes still exist in the virtual world

More people than ever are using online dating sites, with virtual dates becoming the new normal for single people during lockdown. Now a new study shows that while the way we date may have changed, some traditional gender ...

Education Mar 2, 2021

Parents' school reviews correlated with test scores and demographics, not school effectiveness

A first-of-its-kind analysis of parents' reviews of U.S. public K-12 schools, posted primarily from 2009 to 2019 on the popular school information site GreatSchools.org, found that most reviews were written by parents at ...

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