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what now for diversity in science?
Student activists have been demonstrating ahead of the US Supreme Court’s decision on race-conscious university admissions.Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty The US Supreme Court has struck down colleges’ and universities’ right to use race as a factor in deciding which students they admit. Researchers say this will stymie efforts to increase the number of Black and Hispanic…
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Priority areas for investment in more sustainable and climate-resilient livestock systems
World Livestock: Transforming the Livestock Sector Through the Sustainable Development Goals (FAO, 2018). Hong, C. et al. Global and regional drivers of land-use emissions in 1961–2017. Nature 589, 554–561 (2021). Article CAS Google Scholar Herrero, M. et al. The roles of livestock in developing countries. Animal 7, 3–18 (2013). Article Google Scholar Megersa, B., Markemann,…
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Postdoctoral researchers warn NIH that cost-of-living pressures are gutting the workforce
Academic workers strike at the University of California, Los Angeles, on 21 November 2022.Credit: Jill Connelly/Bloomberg via Getty Postdoctoral researchers have warned the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) that they feel undervalued and overworked at a time when they might want to start families and build retirement savings. Around 90% of the comments made…
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Anthropologist examines nomadic pastoralists in Russia
Credit: University of New Mexico For centuries, nomadic pastoralists have been moving their livestock with the seasons between camps at the headwaters of the Yenisei River in Tuva in Russia and northern Mongolia. In new research, Adjunct Associate Professor of Anthropology at The University of New Mexico Paul Hooper examines the use and informal ownership…
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US public pensions could be $21 billion richer right now
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain New research shows that U.S. public pension funds would be $21 billion richer had they divested from fossil fuels a decade ago. The study, out of the University of Waterloo in partnership with Stand.earth, analyzed the public equity portfolios of six major U.S. public pension funds, which collectively represent approximately 3.4…
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UK Researcher uncovers the subterranean world of illegal moneylending
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The dangers of people turning to unofficial lenders due to the cost of living are revealed in new research undertaken by Lancaster University and have been released in a special session in the House of Commons. Being declined for credit appears to be a key triggering factor to go on to…
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Implications for product design and market diversity
by KeAi Communications Co. Both firms’ equilibrium prices and profits under exogenous and endogeous locations respectively (k denotes the innovation efficiency). Credit: the authors The efficiency of a firm’s innovation efforts enhances its technological edge over competitors. However, the impact of such an advantage on the firm’s product design and its competitive position in the…
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researchers detect the host galaxies of quasars in the early universe — ScienceDaily
New images from the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed, for the first time, starlight from two massive galaxies hosting actively growing black holes — quasars — seen less than a billion years after the Big Bang. A new study in Nature this week finds the black holes have masses close to a billion times…
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The Titan disaster could suggest deep sea diving is risky—history shows that’s far from the truth
The tragic death of five people when the Titan submersible imploded during its descent to the wreck of the Titanic has led some to describe deep-diving submersibles as inherently risky. But their history shows that this is far from the case. Bathyspheres were unpowered submersibles lowered into the sea on a cable and used for…
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Outer suburbs’ housing cost advantage vanishes when you add in transport—it needs to be part of the affordability debate
Credit: Shutterstock In all the debate about Australia’s housing crisis, the impact of transport has been largely overlooked. When we talk about transport, it’s usually about time spent commuting and not the out-of-pocket costs. While housing is typically the biggest household cost, spending on transport is the second- or third-largest cost—and these costs are inextricably…