Pop culture abounds with examples of very fast talkers. There's the Judy Grimes character played by Kristen Wiig on "Saturday Night Live," or that guy from the 1980s who did commercials for Micro Machines and FedEx. Of course, ...
Social Sciences
Aug 23, 2023
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Scientists have analyzed more than 650 dam removal projects over 55 years in the United States totaling $1.52 billion inflation-adjusted dollars to develop a tool to better estimate the cost of future dam removals.
Ecology
Jul 25, 2023
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The United Nations has designated 24 June as International Day of Women in Diplomacy. A new dataset was recently published that documents the share of women and men among the world's ambassadors. The research program Gender ...
Social Sciences
Jun 21, 2023
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A new paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution shows that a condition known as Dupuytren's disease is partly of Neanderthal origin. Researchers have long known that the disease was much more common in Northern Europeans than ...
Evolution
Jun 14, 2023
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Candidate genes that could help fish to tolerate warmer and saltier water have been identified in new research from the Earlham Institute, potentially providing a vital resource to guide breeding programs in freshwater aquaculture.
Molecular & Computational biology
Jun 9, 2023
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Nearly a third of primary schools do not have a single male classroom teacher, a new study from Warwick Business School shows.
Economics & Business
Jun 7, 2023
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With global warming on the rise, the severity and frequency of extreme weather events are also rising dramatically; this includes an increase in the number of compound extreme events. The latter term describes scenarios in ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 7, 2023
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Unusually hot weather in India and Pakistan at the end of March; a long, warmer-than-average summer in central Europe; extreme December temperatures in northern Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay: 2022 was definitely a year ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 20, 2023
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Like so many of the planet's natural habitats, wetlands have been systematically destroyed over the past 300 years. Bogs, fens, marshes and swamps have disappeared from maps and memory, having been drained, dug up and built ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 12, 2023
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New research finds that ice-sheet-wide collapse in West Antarctica isn't inevitable: the pace of ice loss varies according to regional differences in atmosphere and ocean circulation.
Earth Sciences
Jan 16, 2023
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