Oct. 21, 2020 — Americans strongly reduced their visits to grocery stores, pharmacies, and transit stations following stay-at-home orders from mayors and governors earlier this year, but did not reduce their visits ...
Oct. 21, 2020 — What impact does a classroom's indoor environment have on teaching, learning, and students' academic achievement in colleges and universities? This is the question researchers set out to ...
Oct. 20, 2020 — Strategies meant to motivate people in the workplace may have unintended consequences -- depending on who's in charge. Recent research shows that empowerment initiatives aren't necessarily ...
Oct. 19, 2020 — A recent report lays out gaps in the biology education field and proposes leveraging an existing research coordination network called Equity and Diversity in Undergraduate STEM (EDU-STEM) to tackle ...
Oct. 19, 2020 — Worldwide demand for food from the tropics that meets higher environmental and social standards has risen sharply in recent years. Consumers often have to make ethically questionable decisions: ...
Oct. 19, 2020 — Older people who report greater levels of social engagement have more robust gray matter in regions of the brain relevant in dementia, according to new research. It is the first to use a particularly ...
Oct. 16, 2020 — Fast and reliable internet access is fundamental for research and development activity around the world. Seamless connectivity is a privilege we often take for granted. But in developing nations, ...
Oct. 16, 2020 — Climate science has focused on avoiding false alarms when linking extreme events to climate change. But it could learn from how weather forecasters warn the public of hazardous events to include a ...
Oct. 16, 2020 — The first large-scale analysis of characters featured in STEM-related educational programming revealed that of the characters appearing in STEM television programming for kids ages 3 to 6, Latinx and ...
Oct. 16, 2020 — To contribute to global climate protection, Germany has to rapidly and comprehensively minimize the use of fossil energy sources and to transform the energy system ...
Oct. 16, 2020 — Global stimulus plans for economic recovery after the pandemic could easily cover climate-friendly policies, suggests a new ...
Oct. 15, 2020 — A new article explores the potential for the COVID-19 virus to become endemic, a regular feature producing recurring outbreaks in ...
Oct. 15, 2020 — The processes our brains use to avoid harming other people are automatic and reflexive - and quite different from those used when avoiding harm to ourselves, according to new ...
Oct. 15, 2020 — Researchers have developed a unique method to predict influenza epidemics by combining several sources of data. The forecasts can be used, for example, when planning healthcare provision, such that ...
Oct. 15, 2020 — A worldwide survey conducted during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic found that people with certain common personality traits were less likely to shelter at home when government policies were ...
Oct. 15, 2020 — During the pandemic, the amount of screen time for many people working and learning from home as well as binge-watching TV has sharply increased. New research finds that wearing blue-light glasses ...
Oct. 15, 2020 — A new set of assessment tools shows promise in capturing how the COVID-19 pandemic affects patterns of criminal ...
Oct. 14, 2020 — Scientists have found that particulate matter concentrations in China dropped by an unprecedented 29.7 percent, and by 17.1 percent in parts of Europe, during lockdowns that took place between Feb. 1 ...
Oct. 14, 2020 — On average, about a third of women between 15 and 34 years old from 43 low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) have lost at least one sibling before the age of 25, according to a new ...
Oct. 14, 2020 — A new model can more accurately and efficiently assess which children are at highest risk of preventable death, according to a new ...
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