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Economics & Business Feb 29, 2024

Berkshire and Lilly race to shake tech's grip on trillion-dollar club

Big Tech stocks created, and have so far dominated, the trillion-dollar club in the U.S. For the first time, there's a race brewing for an outsider to join their ranks.

Ecology Feb 21, 2024

Using citizen scientists to mitigate the environmental crisis in the marine ecosystem

Citizen science can help to improve conservation and management strategies for Mediterranean marine ecosystems, and to mitigate the impact of the environmental crisis. This is the conclusion of a study by the University of ...

Political science Feb 16, 2024

Compulsory voting can reduce political polarization in the US, study finds

Introducing compulsory voting in the United States and other majoritarian democracies, with meaningful and enforceable penalties for abstention, has the potential to reduce political polarization and protect democratic institutions ...

Social Sciences Feb 12, 2024

Community-level language resources do not benefit immigrant men and women equally, study finds

Assistance provided by bilingual adults in a community increases the chances of employment for immigrant men who struggle with English proficiency, but does not play a similar role for women with that same language barrier, ...

Earth Sciences Feb 5, 2024

Study challenges classical view of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current origin and warns of its vulnerability

The Circumpolar Current works as a regulator of the planet's climate. Its origins were thought to have caused the formation of the permanent ice in Antarctica about 34 million years ago. Now, a study led by the University ...

Plants & Animals Jan 18, 2024

Scientists, farmers, managers work together to avoid the decline of the little bustard

Collaboration between scientists, farmers and managers is crucial to improve the protection of the little bustard, an steppe-land bird in Spain endangered due to human activity. The reduction of natural habitats, the increase ...

Cell & Microbiology Jan 18, 2024

Missing gene in mouse sperm could explain infertility

Mice lacking a certain gene are unable to produce offspring because their sperm lack the connection between the tail and the head. A new thesis from the University of Gothenburg indicates a probable cause of male infertility.

Economics & Business Jan 3, 2024

When newspapers close, nonprofit executive salaries go up. Way up

Local newspapers are key to keeping residents informed about civic affairs, and the threat of negative media coverage keeps nonprofit leadership salaries in check, according to new University at Buffalo School of Management ...

Materials Science Dec 30, 2023

Sodium's high-pressure transformation can tell us about the interiors of stars, planets

Travel deep enough below Earth's surface or inside the center of the sun, and matter changes on an atomic level.

Economics & Business Dec 27, 2023

A legal scholar explains the need for government databases to retract information

In 2004, Hwang Woo-suk was celebrated for his breakthrough discovery creating cloned human embryos, and his work was published in the prestigious journal Science. But the discovery was too good to be true; Dr. Hwang had fabricated ...

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