Academic freedom is a universal human right. Yet, the 2022-release of the Academic Freedom Index (AFI) reveals that almost two out of five people worldwide live in countries where academic freedom has declined substantially ...
Education
Mar 3, 2022
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Abrupt shifts in the evolution of animals—short periods of time when an organism rapidly changes size or form—have long been a challenge for theorists including Darwin. Now a newly published research paper supports the ...
Evolution
Mar 2, 2022
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The search for alien life has been restricted to using life on Earth as the reference, essentially looking for "life as we know it" beyond Earth. For astrobiologists looking for life on other planets, there are simply no ...
Astrobiology
Mar 1, 2022
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A new study highlights neighborhood-level gun violence dynamics in Philadelphia during the COVID-19 pandemic, identifying statistical links between changes in shooting rates and levels of drug market and police activity. ...
Social Sciences
Feb 23, 2022
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As more police agencies transition to the FBI's National Incident-Based Reporting System for crime reporting, a study of one state's data found that a design flaw in NIBRS, the timings of arrests and human factors can lead ...
Social Sciences
Feb 18, 2022
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An international team of scientists including Rutgers researchers has found that modern rates of sea level rise began emerging in 1863 as the Industrial Age intensified, coinciding with evidence for early ocean warming and ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 18, 2022
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New research released today finds that while the Knights of the Round Table have won global fame, most medieval English heroic or chivalric stories have been lost. Meanwhile, more than three quarters of medieval stories in ...
Archaeology
Feb 17, 2022
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This may sound counterintuitive, but reducing the number of animals in a population can help the remaining individuals to survive through the winter.
Plants & Animals
Feb 17, 2022
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A team of researchers from the California Institute of Technology and Sony Computer Science Laboratories has begun to search for life on other planets using a tool that analyzes statistical complexity. In their paper published ...
Researchers in Hong Kong and the UK have found that a $1 investment in bribery returns $6–9 in terms of company value, with more money paid to an authority resulting in greater benefits. However, those benefits decrease ...
Economics & Business
Feb 7, 2022
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