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Social Sciences Jun 17, 2024

School interventions offer best shot at reducing youth violence

Black youth show up in emergency rooms with gunshot wounds or other violent injuries at an alarming and disproportionate rate in the United States. Some hospitals have violence interventions that can be effective in keeping ...

Social Sciences Jun 17, 2024

Poll: Majority of Americans say key COVID-19 policies were a good idea—but views of individual policies vary

A majority of Americans say that several key policies to stop the spread of COVID-19 were generally a good idea in hindsight, according to a new national poll by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the de Beaumont ...

Ecology Jun 17, 2024

When should a cattle-killing wolf be put down? Colorado wildlife officials punt question to new advisory group

Colorado ranchers are urging state wildlife officials to define what constitutes a wolf that chronically hunts livestock and to kill or remove a wolf that has killed several cattle in Grand County.

Ecology Jun 17, 2024

Do horse rides along this Florida causeway pollute the bay? A DNA test has answers

Leaders of environment watch group Suncoast Waterkeeper say they have new DNA evidence linking popular horseback rides in Florida's Palma Sola Bay to water pollution.

Environment Jun 17, 2024

Water crisis batters war-torn Sudan as temperatures soar

War, climate change and man-made shortages have brought Sudan—a nation already facing a litany of horrors—to the shores of a water crisis.

Optics & Photonics Jun 14, 2024

Seeing at a distance with multicore fibers: All-optical, ultra-long-distance image acquisition and transmission system

With the exponential growth of data globally, the demand for high-speed acquisition and long-distance transmission of multidimensional data is escalating. Online video surveillance in sectors like industrial manufacturing ...

Social Sciences Jun 14, 2024

Report highlights trajectory challenges for women in elite football

A new report commissioned by the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) and Fédération Internationale des Associations de Footballeurs Professionnels (FIFPRO), undertaken by Edith Cowan University (ECU), ...

Ecology Jun 14, 2024

Studying the changing landscape of forest management: Researchers take a humanities approach

Around 40% of forested land in the United States is privately owned, and for agencies tasked with preserving the nation's natural resources, collaborations with private landowners are not just a vast opportunity, but a necessity.

Biotechnology Jun 14, 2024

Novel insights into fluorescent 'dark states' illuminate ways forward for improved imaging

Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have reported a way to improve molecular scale distance measurements using single-molecule fluorescence resonance energy transfer (smFRET). smFRET quantifies the excitation ...

Environment Jun 13, 2024

Study finds yuck factor counteracts sustainable laundry habits

Most people today would lean towards environmentally-friendly life choices, but not at the expense of being clean. When it comes to our washing habits, the fear of being perceived as dirty often wins out over the desire to ...

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