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May 18, 2024
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Apr. 18, 2024 — Land subsidence is overlooked as a hazard in cities, according to new research. Scientists used satellite data that accurately and consistently maps land movement across ...
Apr. 17, 2024 — Even if CO2 emissions were to be drastically cut down starting today, the world economy is already committed to an income reduction of 19% until 2050 due to climate change, a new study finds. These ...
Mar. 6, 2024 — A new study provides a new comprehensive look at the potential for flooding in a combined 32 cities along the Atlantic, Pacific, and Gulf coasts. It predicts as many as 500,000 people will be affected by flooding alongside 1 in 35 privately owned ...
Feb. 5, 2024 — For more than 50 years, the National Hurricane Center has used the Saffir-Simpson Windscale to communicate the risk of property damage; it labels a hurricane on a scale from Category 1 (wind speeds between 74 -- 95 mph) to Category 5 (wind speeds of ...
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May 16, 2024 — The treatment of animals rates higher than green issues when consumers choose meat and dairy products. That's according to a new study, which ...
May 15, 2024 — Access to gardens and citizen science projects at school can help promote pro-conservation behaviour among pupils, a new study ...
May 15, 2024 — Are acoustic features of music and spoken language shared across cultures? Researchers recorded themselves performing traditional music and speaking in their native language. In all 50+ languages, ...
May 14, 2024 — Asking young adults to advise their younger selves could have a positive impact on their self-esteem, resilience and mental ...
May 14, 2024 — Between 1990 and 2019, more than 150,000 deaths around the globe were associated with heatwaves each year, according to a new ...
May 17, 2024 — A lack of detailed record-keeping in clinics and emergency departments may be getting in the way of reducing the inappropriate use of antibiotics, a pair of new studies suggests. In one of the ...
May 17, 2024 — The latest findings forecast that global life expectancy will increase by 4.9 years in males and 4.2 years in females between 2022 and 2050. ...
May 17, 2024 — Recognizing and respecting the different ways nature is valued can enable better environmental decision-making, according to new ...
May 13, 2024 — Chatbots share limited information, reinforce ideologies, and, as a result, can lead to more polarized thinking when it comes to controversial issues, according to new research. The study challenges ...
May 17, 2024 — A new commentary paper puts forth a transformative solution to the unsustainable reliance on fossil resources by the chemical industry: catalysis to ...
Earlier Headlines
May 16, 2024 — Being stressed while witnessing injustice may push your brain towards altruism, according to a new ...
May 16, 2024 — After spinning for under two years, a wind farm can offset the carbon emissions generated across its entire 30-year lifespan, when compared to thermal power ...
May 15, 2024 — By kindergarten age, most children have been taught that 'please' is a magic word. 'Please' is an expression of politeness that shows courtesy and respect, turning a potential ...
May 15, 2024 — Wearable Bluetooth devices can shed light on the care that residents of care homes are receiving and which residents are most in need of social contact, according to a new ...
May 15, 2024 — Among public school students in New York City, some of the greatest increases in childhood obesity in recent years were among those socioeconomic and demographic groups already bearing the greatest ...
May 15, 2024 — John Milton's handwritten annotations have been identified in a copy of Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles (1587), a vital source of inspiration for the Paradise Lost poet. The discovery makes ...
May 15, 2024 — PES programs are currently structured in ways that could limit their participation or create incentives to drop out before the full environmental benefits are ...
May 14, 2024 — Even the most optimistic projections for the rapid build-out of solar, wind, and other low-carbon resources acknowledge that coal, natural gas, and other fossil fuels will dominate the world's ...
May 14, 2024 — Researchers present a novel framework that uses image-mining techniques and machine learning algorithms to identify flaws in counterfeit coins. The researchers' framework uses fuzzy association ...
May 14, 2024 — The latest 'Florida Climate Resilience Survey' found that 90% of Floridians believe that climate change is happening. Belief in human-caused climate change has surged among Florida ...
May 14, 2024 — A research team assessed the impact of a train station's opening on health expenditures. The natural experiment study revealed that a new mass transit station is significantly associated with ...
May 14, 2024 — Adults spend an average of 59 times a day thinking about the future. This helps them to cope with upcoming challenges. But what do children ...
May 14, 2024 — Survey reveals nearly three-quarters of U.S. adults support using emerging technology to screen embryos during IVF for risk of developing certain health conditions or traits that arise from more than ...
May 13, 2024 — Today, there are dozens of large language model (LLM) chatbots aimed at mental health care -- addressing everything from loneliness among seniors to anxiety and depression in teens. But the efficacy ...
May 13, 2024 — Actually, sometimes consumers don't want to talk to a real person when they're shopping online, a new study suggests. In fact, what they really want is a chatbot that makes it clear that it ...
May 13, 2024 — Coal phase-out is necessary to solve climate change, but can have negative impacts on workers and local communities dependent on coal for their livelihoods. Researchers have studied government plans ...
May 13, 2024 — Researchers undertook a study of older adults to examine the connection between a sense of economic insecurity and a person's participation in social ...
May 13, 2024 — A computer scientist has shown the power of language to predict harm -- this time to the nation's ...
May 10, 2024 — As often as four days a week, Boeing EA-18G Growler electronic attack aircraft based at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island fly loops overhead as pilots practice touch-and-go landings. The noise is ...
May 10, 2024 — Many artificial intelligence (AI) systems have already learned how to deceive humans, even systems that have been trained to be helpful and honest. Researchers describe the risks of deception by AI ...
Thursday, May 16, 2024
- Under Stress, an Observer Is More Likely to Help the Victim Than to Punish the Perpetrator
- Wind Farms Can Offset Their Emissions Within Two Years
Wednesday, May 15, 2024
- When Saying 'please' Is More Strategic Than Magic
- Bluetooth Tracking Devices Provide New Look Into Care Home Quality
- Racial Disparities in Childhood Obesity on the Rise
- John Milton's Notes Discovered, Including a Rare Example of Prudish Censorship
- Penalties for Dropping out of Ecosystem Services Incentive Programs Should Equal Lost Environmental Benefits
Tuesday, May 14, 2024
- The Case for Sharing Carbon Storage Risk
- Counterfeit Coins Can Be Detected More Easily Thanks to a Novel Approach
- 90% of Floridians Believe Climate Change Is Happening
- New Transit Station in Japan Significantly Reduced Cumulative Health Expenditures
- What Motivates Preschoolers to Prepare for the Future
- Mixed Public Opinion on Polygenic Embryo Screening for IVF
Monday, May 13, 2024
- Coming out to a Chatbot?
- When Consumers Would Prefer a Chatbot Over a Person
- The Price Tag of Phasing-out Coal
- Team Studies Factors Related to a Sense of Economic Insecurity in Older Adults
- Study Traces an Infectious Language Epidemic
Friday, May 10, 2024
- US Navy Growler Jet Noise Over Whidbey Island Could Impact 74,000 People's Health
- AI Systems Are Already Skilled at Deceiving and Manipulating Humans
- AI Intervention Mitigates Tension Among Conflicting Ethnic Groups
Thursday, May 9, 2024
- Discrimination May Accelerate Aging
- Transformation of Ocean Management Is Underway
- Manganese Sprinkled With Iridium: A Quantum Leap in Green Hydrogen Production
- Ocean Biodiversity Work Needs Improvement
- Take Cover! Survey Shows Tornado Warnings Widely Misunderstood
- Liberals and Conservatives Differ on Climate Change Beliefs -- But Are Relatively United in Taking Action
- Net Zero Plans Show Limited Climate Ambition on 'residual' Emissions
- Getting Dirty to Clean Up the Chemical Industry's Environmental Impact
Wednesday, May 8, 2024
- 'Digital Afterlife': Call for Safeguards to Prevent Unwanted 'hauntings' By AI Chatbots of Dead Loved Ones
- New Study Finds AI-Generated Empathy Has Its Limits
- Researchers Say Future Is Bright for Treating Substance Abuse Through Mobile Health Technologies
- More Than 321,000 U.S. Children Lost a Parent to Drug Overdose from 2011 to 2021
- Childhood Maltreatment Responsible for Up to 40 Percent of Mental Health Conditions
- Acceptance of Animals in Urban Environments
Tuesday, May 7, 2024
- Mobile Teams Bring COVID-19 Vaccines to Rural Villages in Sierra Leone
- Decoding the Three Ancestral Components of the Japanese People
- New Study Finds Increase in Exposures to Synthetic Tetrahydrocannabinols Among Young Children, Teens, and Adults
Monday, May 6, 2024
- Cybersecurity Education Varies Widely in US
- DDT Pollutants Found in Deep Sea Fish Off Los Angeles Coast
- Past and Guides Future Efforts to Reduce Cancer Disparities
- Contract Treatment Reduces Recidivism and Substance-Related Adverse Health Events
Friday, May 3, 2024
- Sister Cities Can Help Communities Better Navigate the Climate Crisis
- 'Gap' In Carbon Removal: Countries' Plans to Remove CO2 Not Enough
Thursday, May 2, 2024
- To Bend the Curve of Biodiversity Loss, Nature Recovery Must Be Integrated Across All Sectors
- Companies May Buy Consumer Genetic Information Despite Its Modest Predictive Power
Wednesday, May 1, 2024
- EPA Underestimates Methane Emissions from Landfills, Urban Areas
- Roadmap to Close the Carbon Cycle
- Social-Media Break Has Huge Impact on Young Women's Body Image, Study Finds
- Understanding Youth Nicotine Use to Prevent Initiation and Escalation
- Life Expectancy in Two Disadvantaged Areas Higher Than Expected
- Time Zones and Tiredness Strongly Influence NBA Results, Study of 25,000 Matches Shows
Tuesday, April 30, 2024
- Astronomers Share Climate-Friendly Meeting Solutions
- Is It Time to Retire the Best-Before Date?
- Missing Link in Species Conservation: Pharmacists, Chemists Could Turn Tide on Plant, Animal Extinction
- Big Data Reveals True Climate Impact of Worldwide Air Travel
- Machine Listening: Making Speech Recognition Systems More Inclusive
- Innovation Promises to Prevent Power Pole-Top Fires
- Data Scarcity Challenges Identification of Endocrine Disruptors
- E-Bike Incentives Prove to Be Worth the Investment
Monday, April 29, 2024
Friday, April 26, 2024
- Energy Trades Could Help Resolve Nile Conflict
- How Geography Acts as a Structural Determinant of Health
- Component of Keto Diet Plus Immunotherapy May Reduce Prostate Cancer
Thursday, April 25, 2024
- Climate Change Could Become the Main Driver of Biodiversity Decline by Mid-Century
- Voluntary Corporate Emissions Targets Not Enough to Create Real Climate Action
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
- Positive Perceptions of Solar Projects
- New Study Reveals How AI Can Enhance Flexibility, Efficiency for Customer Service Centers
- Laser Technology Offers Breakthrough in Detecting Illegal Ivory
- A University Lecture, With a Dash of Jumping Jacks
- Survey Finds Loneliness Epidemic Runs Deep Among Parents
- Advancing the Safety of AI-Driven Machinery Requires Closer Collaboration With Humans
- Securing Competitiveness of Energy-Intensive Industries Through Relocation: The Pulling Power of Renewables
- Computer Game in School Made Students Better at Detecting Fake News
- Shoreline Model Predicts Long-Term Future of Storm Protection and Sea-Level Rise
- Decoding Avar Society
- Child Pedestrians, Self-Driving Vehicles: What's the Safest Scenario for Crossing the Road?
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
- Infected: Understanding the Spread of Behavior
- Marginalized Communities Developed 'disaster Subculture' When Living Through Extreme Climate Events
- New Study Uncovers Lasting Financial Hardship Associated With Cancer Diagnosis for Working-Age Adults in the U.S.
- 'Sunny Day Flooding' Increases Fecal Contamination of Coastal Waters
- Social Media Affects People's Views on Mental Illness
- Major Milestone Reached for Key Weapons Component
- Treatment from Female Doctors Leads to Lower Mortality and Hospital Readmission Rates, Study Suggests
- Hey Dave, I've Got an Idea for You: What's the Potential of AI-Led Workshopping?
Monday, April 22, 2024
- Life Goals and Their Changes Drive Success
- Japan's Premodern Concept of Nature at Root of Distinctive Mindset in Early Childhood Education
- New Sensing Checks for 3D Printed Products Could Overhaul Manufacturing Sector
- Rise Seen in Use of Antibiotics for Conditions They Can't Treat -- Including COVID-19
- Study Finds COVID-19 Pandemic Led to Some, but Not Many, Developmental Milestone Delays in Infants and Young Children
- Social Programs Save Millions of Lives, Especially in Times of Crisis
Friday, April 19, 2024
- The Biggest Barrier to a Vibrant Second-Hand EV Market? Price
- How Reflecting on Gratitude Received from Family Can Make You a Better Leader
- Climate Change Will Increase Value of Residential Rooftop Solar Panels Across US, Study Shows
Thursday, April 18, 2024
- Data-Driven Music: Converting Climate Measurements Into Music
- More Sustainability in Global Agricultural Trade
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
- New Data Identifies Trends in Accidental Opioid Overdoses in Children
- Substantial Global Cost of Climate Inaction
- Gender Stereotypes in Schools Impact on Girls and Boys With Mental Health Difficulties, Study Finds