Investor and government attention to climate-related issues is rising. However, how to assess, mitigate, and hedge climate risk remain a major challenge to industry and researchers.
Economics & Business
Nov 15, 2023
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Humans make decisions using statistical information every day. Imagine you're selecting a packet of jellybeans. If you prefer red jellybeans, you will probably try to find a packet that shows the most red (and less of the ...
Plants & Animals
May 5, 2023
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Researchers looking at fuel use for cooking in Kenya and Malawi have found residents in the countries' informal settlements are being exposed to worrying levels of pollution.
Environment
Apr 28, 2023
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Daily box office earnings can accurately predict stock market returns, according to a new study.
Economics & Business
Oct 12, 2022
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64
Researchers of a recent paper published by Nature Food suggest a method which they claim will allow decision-makers to make more timely and informed decisions on policies and programs oriented towards the fight against hunger.
Economics & Business
Sep 19, 2022
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There is no shortage of critiques concerning the use of AI in public decision-making processes. Scholars, for example, have described algorithms as a "toxic cocktail for democracy" by pointing at the ever-growing availability ...
Political science
Aug 24, 2022
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Nitrates and nitrites give processed meats their characteristic pink color and robust flavor. Although many consumers want to limit consumption of these preservatives because the substances can form potentially cancer-causing ...
Analytical Chemistry
Aug 3, 2022
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102
Temperatures are rising, and one colony of ants will soon have to make a collective decision. Each ant feels the rising heat beneath its feet but carries along as usual until, suddenly, the ants reverse course. The whole ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 20, 2022
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People react more positively to new technologies when hearing spoken descriptions of them than when the identical information is written down, a new study finds.
Social Sciences
Apr 5, 2022
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Why do we yell at our computer when it struggles to work? Why do some cars look like they're smiling? Why does your guitar seem free-spirited? This is because of our innate human tendency for anthropomorphism: the ascription ...
Social Sciences
Mar 25, 2022
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