By comparing geographic patterns of nonhuman primate biodiversity and human land-use, researchers discovered that areas managed or controlled by Indigenous peoples tend to have significantly more primate biodiversity than ...
Ecology
Aug 10, 2022
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Intimate partner violence—or abuse and aggression in a romantic relationship—is a pervasive global issue. In Uganda, a primarily Christian country in East Africa, 56% of women who've been married report being sexually ...
Social Sciences
Jul 25, 2022
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Temperatures in the Middle East have risen far faster than the world's average in the past three decades. Precipitation has been decreasing, and experts predict droughts will come with greater frequency and severity.
Environment
Jul 25, 2022
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Religious campaigns and political interference could threaten hard-won reproductive health rights in the global South in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court decision on abortion, health advocates fear.
Social Sciences
Jul 21, 2022
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When Laura Zhang Choi testified to New Jersey legislators last month, she told them they needed better information about the state's fastest-growing population—Asian Americans.
Social Sciences
Jul 6, 2022
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The fossils of our earliest ancestors found in South Africa are a million years older than previously thought, meaning they walked the Earth around the same time as their East African relatives like the famous "Lucy", according ...
Paleontology & Fossils
Jul 2, 2022
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Using nutrient-rich coconut water to artificially inseminate female pigs could improve breeding and meat quality, a project carried out in Uganda has found.
Veterinary medicine
Jun 30, 2022
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The first high-quality genome of the desert locust—those voracious feeders of plague and devastation infamy and the most destructive migratory insect in the world—has been produced by U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural ...
Biotechnology
Jun 27, 2022
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Millions of years ago, giant dwarf crocodiles roamed a part of Africa with a taste for our human ancestors.
Evolution
Jun 15, 2022
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A total lunar eclipse provided a spectacular celestial show as it unfolded Sunday night into early Monday in the Americas.
Space Exploration
May 16, 2022
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