Wildfires and drought have led to $11.2 billion in damages to privately held timberland in California, Oregon and Washington over the past two decades, a new Oregon State University study found.
Environment
Nov 13, 2023
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While white women may speak of breaking through the "glass ceiling," for many Black women, it's more like a "concrete ceiling." Black women experience unique and formidable barriers in the workforce that are not only difficult ...
Social Sciences
Nov 10, 2023
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While racial disparities in education have narrowed in the U.S., African American individuals from well-educated backgrounds still find it especially difficult to attain the same high level of education as their parents. ...
Social Sciences
Nov 6, 2023
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Astronomers have found plenty of white dwarf stars surrounded by debris disks. Those disks are the remains of planets destroyed by the star as it evolved. But they've found one intact Jupiter-mass planet orbiting a white ...
Astronomy
Nov 2, 2023
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Birds in North America will no longer be named after people, the American Ornithological Society announced Wednesday.
Plants & Animals
Nov 2, 2023
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Most Americans believe political discourse has grown coarser in recent years, as old taboos against publicly cursing and attacking an opponent's family have fallen away. Politicians and their supporters call critics and opponents ...
Political science
Oct 31, 2023
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NASA's IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) telescope has captured the first polarized X-ray imagery of the supernova remnant SN 1006. The new results expand scientists' understanding of the relationship between magnetic ...
Astronomy
Oct 30, 2023
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A new sounding rocket mission is headed to space to understand how explosive stellar deaths lay the groundwork for new star systems. The Integral Field Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Experiment, or INFUSE, sounding rocket mission, ...
Space Exploration
Oct 27, 2023
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It's officially spooky season: Nights are creeping in earlier. A fall chill has descended. Skeletons and witches and jack-o-lanterns dot every street.
Plants & Animals
Oct 24, 2023
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Catching bats is a difficult task—they're small, they fly and they blend into the night when they're out after dark. That can make studying these mammals challenging, despite their ubiquity: bats are found on nearly every ...
Ecology
Oct 24, 2023
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