Crowds lined up in San Francisco on Wednesday to see—and smell—the blooming of an endangered tropical flower that releases a pungent odor when it opens once every several years.
Plants & Animals
Feb 29, 2024
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By its very nature, friendship is anarchic: it has few rules and is not regulated by the government. Our friendships are usually egalitarian, flexible and non-exclusive. We treat our friends as individuals and care about ...
Social Sciences
Feb 26, 2024
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The 1963 Civil Rights victory in Birmingham, Alabama paved the way for the 1964 Civil Rights Act. In their latest article, published in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, UMass Amherst Associate Professor of History ...
Social Sciences
Feb 26, 2024
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Governments increasingly rely on large amounts of data to provide services ranging from mobility and air quality to child welfare and policing programs. While governments have always relied on data, their increasing use of ...
Social Sciences
Feb 26, 2024
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With a record number of people seeking help for problem gambling through the National Gambling Helpline last year, and the Gambling Commission's new figures suggesting that as many as 1.3 million adults in Great Britain might ...
Social Sciences
Feb 17, 2024
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Introducing compulsory voting in the United States and other majoritarian democracies, with meaningful and enforceable penalties for abstention, has the potential to reduce political polarization and protect democratic institutions ...
Political science
Feb 16, 2024
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Researchers from IOCB Prague and their colleagues from Ghent University in Belgium have been working on improving the properties of gelatin-based materials, thereby expanding the possibilities of their use mainly in medicine. ...
Materials Science
Feb 14, 2024
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Given the pressing challenges of climate change, education is increasingly seen as a key to transformative adaptation to a changing environment. A study, conducted in collaboration between the Leibniz Center for Agricultural ...
Education
Feb 14, 2024
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Artificial intelligence and natural language processing technologies are driving the use of pedagogical conversational agents with empathic capabilities. They are virtual tools (e.g., chatbots) that are able to evoke an empathetic ...
Education
Feb 13, 2024
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We rank almost everything. The top 10 restaurants in our vicinity, the best cities to visit, the best movies to watch. To understand whether the rankings were any good you'd want know who was doing the ranking. And what it ...
Social Sciences
Feb 13, 2024
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