Every summer, Statistics Canada releases crime rate and crime severity data for the previous year. This year, Canada's Crime Severity Index (CSI) increased by 4.3 percent, the violent CSI increased by 4.6 percent, and the ...
Social Sciences
Aug 14, 2023
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A pilot study shows how after-school-hours care can play an important role in building children's well-being and social connection. The program involves children in the design process and gives them a voice and role to shape ...
Social Sciences
Aug 7, 2023
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A University of Maryland study upended by the COVID-19 lockdown in Nigeria made an unexpected discovery: Preschool children who regularly watched educational television programming at home while schools were closed showed ...
Social Sciences
Jul 7, 2023
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An article published in the journal Phycology shows that there is room to transform 100% of the raw material from marine macroalgae (seaweed) into ingredients for cosmetics using industrially available green technology.
Biotechnology
Jun 21, 2023
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Numerous wild conspiracies gained momentum online following significant seismic events in the past. In light of the growing dominance of social media and the spread of misinformation, a new paper reveals how bots contribute ...
Social Sciences
Jun 13, 2023
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Computer scientist Keith Burghardt at the Information Sciences Institute (ISI), a research institute of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, has been studying social media for five years, and specifically studying online ...
Social Sciences
Apr 24, 2023
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The green light streaking across the cloudy sky was something that Daichi Fujii had never seen before. The museum curator's motion-detecting cameras were set up near Japan's Mount Fuji to capture meteors, allowing him to ...
Astronomy
Apr 17, 2023
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Seventy-five million people from the Baby Boomer generation will be retiring by 2030. The departure of this staggering group of workers will leave a wide gap in the workforce, causing concern among employers about how to ...
Social Sciences
Feb 9, 2023
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The United Nations is being urged to make a bold pledge and set a target of zero for new plastic pollution by 2040 in its upcoming Global Treaty to End Plastic Pollution. Plastic production and subsequent pollution are key ...
Environment
Nov 9, 2022
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New research shows that lemurs and their food trees are tightly linked in ecological networks, and that the extinction of lemurs will have cascading effects on ecosystem functions.
Plants & Animals
Sep 1, 2022
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