A UC Berkeley-led study revealed that disparities in the share of Black and Latino students admitted to America's elite colleges and universities have endured and even widened over the last 40 years.
Education
Feb 28, 2024
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Jairo Kenupp Bastos first heard about the insect while visiting Canavieiras on the south coast of Bahia, a state in the Northeast of Brazil. "Local beekeepers told me about a tiny beetle that made holes in a plant called Dalbergia ...
Plants & Animals
May 27, 2022
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21
Despite strides in family-leave offerings, and men taking a greater role in parenting, women in academia still experience about a 20% drop in productivity after having a child, while their male counterparts generally do not, ...
Social Sciences
Feb 25, 2021
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A new study shows that the elementary school a child attends has almost no influence on their desire to progress to higher education—as factors including parental aspirations, academic support from their mother and having ...
Education
Nov 18, 2019
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Deforestation in Indigenous Territories (ITs) in the Brazilian Amazon caused the emission of 96 million metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) between 2013 and 2021, modifying the forest's role as a carbon sink in these areas. ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 29, 2023
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University and college students who identify themselves as politically liberal voted at higher rates in the 2008 presidential election than conservatives, according to new data released by the Higher Education Research Institute ...
Social Sciences
Nov 1, 2010
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Publications on sugar cane have increased exponentially since 2006 worldwide, and Brazil has had more articles published on the topic than any other country in the period, according to a review in BioEnergy Research.
Biotechnology
Nov 27, 2023
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22
If you ask someone if they are a math or science person, they may quickly tell you yes or no. It turns out that how people answer that question in ninth grade and even earlier not only can tell you what subjects they prefer ...
Social Sciences
Oct 3, 2022
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21
It's an everyday scene. Pooch wants a tasty-looking piece of cake that's sitting on the table. What does he do? He gazes longingly at the titbit, ogles his master or mistress, and glances back at the cake. This "conversation" ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 16, 2021
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States reduced per-student funding for major public research universities by a fifth during the past decade, while foreign competitors invested heavily to challenge the United States' once dominant global position in science, ...
Other
Jan 18, 2012
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