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Opportunities across childhood best predict degrees, earnings for low-income youth
A new study led by a Boston College researcher has found that experiencing educational opportunities in all stages of childhood and adolescence is the best pred...
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft wakes from its longest hibernation in good health
Following its longest hibernation period ever of nearly a year, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has emerged in good health and is ready to begin transmitting sci...
Island life changed how Brazil's Noronha skink reproduces, but the lizard's strategy might be failing
Visitors to the Fernando de Noronha archipelago, located about 340 miles (545 kilometers) off the coast of Pernambuco in northeastern Brazil, soon notice a smal...
Saturn-ring-like laser emission from chiral polymeric microspheres
Controlling light within microscopic spaces is crucial for next-generation optical devices such as photonic integrated circuits and localized sensors. Microsphe...
Galaxy mergers aren't always obvious
The galaxy Centaurus A is about 11 million light-years away and is the fifth-brightest galaxy in the sky. Because it's so bright, it's been studied extensively...
Weak connection: Why influencers sometimes fail to influence
Conventional wisdom holds that targeting the best-connected individuals in a social network is an effective way to nudge a wider group of people to change their...
Where rivers face collapse: New tool shows where conservation dollars can do most good
Freshwater ecosystems are under growing pressure worldwide, but conservation resources are limited. A framework developed by IIASA researchers and partners can...
Fungi communicate with one another in the presence of metal pollution in forests
VUB researcher Maarten Ottaway investigated how trees and their invisible underground allies—the fungi—respond to soil pollution. His Ph.D. sheds new light on a...
Study finds sharing tax numbers boosts transparency, not confusion, for investors
A new study finds that publicly traded companies that disclose more numbers related to what they pay in taxes improve their transparency, allowing the market to...
Satellite record reveals US tidal wetland productivity rose 6% in 20 years
Carbon sequestration, climate regulation, biodiversity support and shoreline protection: These are all benefits provided by tidal wetlands. As the climate chang...
Isotope probing shows soil is packed with dormant viruses lying in wait
A single gram of soil contains between 10 million and 1 billion viruses. Most of those viruses do not infect plants, animals or people, but they do target bacte...
More than half of Atlanta's restrooms inaccessible to the public, study finds
More than half of publicly accessible restrooms in key areas of Atlanta are unavailable to the public, according to a new study by researchers at the Georgia St...