Australia is holding its collective breath ahead of a bushfire season that may bring a return of the smoke linked to 400 deaths and 4,500 hospitalizations and emergency department visits during the 2019–20 Black Summer ...
Environment
Sep 7, 2023
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Research conducted by the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa is unearthing the unique challenges that Indigenous faculty face in earning tenure, academia's "golden ticket." In a study published in the journal Environment and ...
Social Sciences
Sep 7, 2023
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Complex stories of homelessness, as told through the experiences of women in the North East of England, are the focus of a study led by Joanne McGrath, a third year Ph.D. student based at Northumbria University.
Social Sciences
Sep 5, 2023
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As the virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic first began to spread around the planet, it brought along a new vocabulary. Unfamiliar phrases like "flatten the curve," "COVID pod" and "essential worker" infected regular conversation. ...
Social Sciences
Aug 15, 2023
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High temperatures exacerbate ground-level ozone production, resulting in a deadly combination of extreme heat and poor air quality that is especially dangerous for children, seniors, and people suffering from preexisting ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 13, 2023
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A review into loneliness inequalities conducted by some of the U.K.'s leading scholars in the field has highlighted key social and societal factors that lead to loneliness inequalities.
Social Sciences
Aug 10, 2023
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B cells or B lymphocytes are an important part of the body's immune system. When healthy B cells are infected with the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), they undergo growth transformation, a process that immortalizes B cells, leading ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 7, 2023
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Text messages showing actor Jonah Hill asking his ex-girlfriend Sarah Brady to consider a dot point list of relationship "boundaries" have sparked an important conversation.
Social Sciences
Jul 18, 2023
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Siren blaring, Sunil Kumar Naik's ambulance tore across a dry and rocky countryside blasted by dangerous midday heat, rushing to check on a vomiting and dizzy 30-year-old man with possible heat stroke. As soon as they reached ...
Environment
Jun 30, 2023
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As consumers, we are becoming more communal. Among other products we now share with strangers are shampoo and body wash in containers affixed to hotel suite showers as well as hand sanitizers in public dispensers at gyms, ...
Social Sciences
Jun 29, 2023
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