During the COVID-19 pandemic, the speed with which available health and safety information evolved was novel to most people around the world. To assess how the public handled the changing guidance, an international research ...
Social Sciences
Nov 29, 2023
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Climate change poses a health threat through increasing weather disasters and extreme heat, the UN said Thursday, calling for better warning systems that could be weaved into public health policy.
Environment
Nov 2, 2023
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Online grocery shopping has become more popular since the COVID-19 pandemic. Sales from online food retail in the United States are projected to grow from 9.5% of total food commerce in 2020 to 20.5% in 2026. Given this, ...
Social Sciences
Oct 2, 2023
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Researchers from the University of Minnesota and the Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa discovered fish from 18 out of 19 testing sites in northern Minnesota contained contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) such ...
Ecology
Sep 20, 2023
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia's capital city, will likely face increased heat waves, droughts and severe flooding over the next 67 years. These changes will pose risks to public health and infrastructure. They'll also be felt most ...
Environment
Sep 13, 2023
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Misinformation about health and medicine is rampant in the United States, with far too many Americans being presented false claims and left wondering what to believe, a new survey reports.
Social Sciences
Aug 22, 2023
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In May, University of Florida scientists announced that they had unearthed high-quality, information-rich human DNA from nearly every spot they could think of. Rivers, beaches, oceans—even vacuumed up from the air.
Molecular & Computational biology
Aug 10, 2023
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A new study recently published in the International Journal of Communication reveals how TikTok's unique features have been used to spread COVID-19 misinformation. Unlike Twitter, which uses a text format, the micro-video ...
Social Sciences
Jun 14, 2023
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The tragic war underway in Sudan will soon start to impact neighboring countries, as refugees cross borders to flee the violence. Recurring civil conflicts have already displaced up to 3.2 million Sudanese internally. The ...
Environment
May 26, 2023
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California and Texas textbooks have their differences when it comes to teaching teenagers about American history and the way that subjects like race, gender, and immigration weave through it. But a new Stanford University ...
Earth Sciences
May 25, 2023
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