In medieval Norway, high status individuals tended to be taller and to have stronger bones, possibly as a result of a favorable lifestyle, according to a study published October 19, 2022, in the open-access journal PLOS ONE ...
Archaeology
Oct 19, 2022
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International trade exacerbates domestic income inequality, at least in some circumstances, according to an empirical study that two MIT economists helped co-author.
Economics & Business
Jun 7, 2022
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A new international study carried out by the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB) has examined the distribution of biomass across all life in the oceans, from ...
Ecology
Nov 10, 2021
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A paper published today in the journal Nature Energy identifies five ways that people of high socioeconomic status have a disproportionate impact on global greenhouse gas emissions—and therefore an outsized responsibility ...
Environment
Sep 30, 2021
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A weather pattern that pushes snowfall away from parts of Greenland's ice sheet is causing the continent to become darker and warmer, according to Dartmouth research published in Geophysical Research Letters.
Earth Sciences
May 17, 2021
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It's generally recognized that differences in background and education cement class differences. It is less clear when and under what circumstances individual psychological forces can drive an initially homogenous social ...
Social Sciences
Jun 17, 2020
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A new statistical analysis of data from a long-term study on the teaching of mathematics and science has found that smaller class sizes are not always associated with better pupil performance and achievement.
Education
Dec 16, 2019
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Scientific analysis of dental calculus—plaque build-up—of the Famine's victims found evidence of corn (maize), oats, potato, wheat and milk foodstuffs.
Archaeology
Sep 9, 2019
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A team of researchers from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School has found through experimentation that diversity training does not generally result in much change in work environments—though it might lead women ...
The simmering trade war between the United States and China risks devastating the Amazon rainforest as Beijing looks for ways to make up a shortfall in US-grown soya beans, experts warned on Wednesday.
Environment
Mar 27, 2019
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