Visitors to a modern art museum lingered in front of artworks longer and exhibited more signs of excitement when given detailed descriptions of each piece compared to seeing basic labels, according to a study published May ...
Social Sciences
May 3, 2023
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In the afternoon hours of March 22, 2021, as women attended to chores and children played in dusty streets, a fire erupted at Kutupalong Balukhali in the Cox's Bazar region of Bangladesh, the largest refugee camp in the world.
Environment
May 2, 2023
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May the 4th is almost a religious holiday for Star Wars fans, when they make annual pilgrimages to re-released films in theaters, attend costumed conventions and plan themed parties.
Social Sciences
May 2, 2023
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The COVID-19 pandemic has reduced how often urban residents intersect with people from different income brackets, according to a new study led by MIT researchers.
Social Sciences
Apr 28, 2023
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For millennia, humans have used knots for all kinds of reasons—to tie rope, braid hair, or weave fabrics. But there are organisms that are better at tying knots and far superior—and faster—at untangling them.
Molecular & Computational biology
Apr 27, 2023
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Climate change is raising the risk of extreme weather, causing food shortages and threatening the existence of myriad species—and if that weren't enough, it's now prompting pirates to plague the world's oceans and seas.
Environment
Apr 27, 2023
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Hundreds of millions of years before the evolution of animals with segmented bodies, jointed skeletons or appendages, soft-bodied invertebrates like sea slugs ruled the seas. A new study finds parallels between the brain ...
Evolution
Apr 26, 2023
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Evolution goes beyond the genetic code and the transformation of physical form, from land-mammal to whale or dinosaur to bird.
Social Sciences
Apr 26, 2023
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Burnout—a psychosocial syndrome—has long been linked with physical health problems across a range of occupations. For the first time, research from the University of York and York St John University has shown that this ...
Education
Apr 25, 2023
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A new study which helped pet parrots make video calls to each other suggests that the birds may have benefited from making new feathered friends over the internet.
Plants & Animals
Apr 21, 2023
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