Exposure to financial strain and material deprivation rather than reduced household income are linked to the development of child behavioral difficulties, according to a new study conducted by researchers in the Department ...
Social Sciences
Feb 16, 2023
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A significant element of the UK government's leveling up plan to create thousands of jobs, regenerate more deprived areas and attract overseas investors is the introduction of freeports. These special low-tax trading zones ...
Economics & Business
Feb 1, 2023
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Rondaxe Lake in Herkimer County, New York, represents classic Adirondack Park waters. But over the last quarter-century, Rondaxe—like thousands of lakes in temperate zones around the world—has been losing a global-warming ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 6, 2022
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It isn't every day that we learn something that fundamentally changes how we understand our world. But for UC Santa Barbara Earth scientist Matthew Jackson and the thousands of volcanologists across the globe, such a revelation ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 15, 2022
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Sleep refreshes the brain and the body by inducing protective changes in gene expression. Sleep disturbance triggers a stress response that also turns on protective genes. It was unclear how sleep or sleep deprivation can ...
Biotechnology
May 5, 2022
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Sleep deprived Australian magpies are tired and unmotivated, just like humans, according to new research from La Trobe University in Melbourne which has found that, after a poor night's sleep, the common black and white songbird ...
Plants & Animals
May 3, 2022
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The first study ever to examine sleeping behavior in a wild group of primates has challenged a central tenet of sleep science: that we must make up for lost sleep. Even after sleeping poorly, wild baboons still spent time ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 1, 2022
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Banning promotions, like "buy one get one free" (BOGOF), on soft drinks could be more effective than the sugar tax in reducing consumption of sugary drinks according to new research from the University of Aberdeen's Rowett ...
Economics & Business
Feb 7, 2022
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Extreme weather has been the cause of some of the biggest public health crises across the world in recent years. In many cases, these have been enhanced by human-induced climate change. For instance, in 2003, high summer ...
Environment
Oct 28, 2021
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The number of unowned cats in urban areas of the UK is estimated to be 247,429 according to a modeling study published in Scientific Reports. The authors suggest that urban areas with higher human density and deprivation ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 28, 2021
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