Countries in Latin America, Asia and Africa have experienced severe droughts and unprecedented floods in the last year. New research from Northwestern University is the first to provide a more nuanced and global view of the ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 10, 2022
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Early spring enthusiasm for ramps—also known as wild leeks—may be causing lower plant yields and threatening communities of the forest herb, according to Penn State researchers.
Ecology
Nov 9, 2022
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For at least 200,000 years, we humans have been trying to understand our environments and adapt to them. At times, we have succeeded; often, we have not. When we get it wrong—through anthropogenic exacerbations leading ...
Environment
Nov 8, 2022
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The principal of the Ganthalawa school in the rural village of Kanthale, Sri Lanka, received an unusual request from a female student—she wanted to change her class because her classmate had stopped sharing meals with her ...
Social Sciences
Nov 8, 2022
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Quantum devices are becoming ever more complex and powerful. Researchers at the University of Innsbruck, in collaboration with the Johannes Kepler University Linz and the University of Technology Sydney, are now presenting ...
Quantum Physics
Nov 2, 2022
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"We are […] sandbagging the state," New South Wales Emergency Services Minister Steph Cooke declared on Saturday. And so we endure the third La Niña season with this waiting-for-the-next-disaster attitude.
Environment
Oct 27, 2022
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In recent years, voters in the world's third-largest democracy, Indonesia, have preferred to support candidates with solid religious personas and a lifestyle and appearances adhering to Islamic values. This preference is ...
Social Sciences
Oct 24, 2022
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A broad array of cultural practices—from the construction of stone tools to the conventions of religious rituals—are highly stable over long periods of time. One might assume that such persistent cultural knowledge is ...
Social Sciences
Oct 19, 2022
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Whether you're trying to ace a test or pick up a new hobby, Iowa State Psychology Professor Shana Carpenter says combining two strategies—spacing and retrieval practice—is key to success.
Education
Oct 19, 2022
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Undeniably, corn is one of the world's most important crops. From feeding humans and livestock, to its many industrial uses, humans have been growing it for approximately 10,000 years.
Plants & Animals
Oct 12, 2022
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