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May 14, 2024
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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 one gene. Only about one-third of respondents ...
May 9, 2024 Discrimination may speed up the biological processes of aging, according to a new ...
May 2, 2024 Genetics can be associated with one's behavior and health -- from the willingness to take risks, and how long one stays in school, to chances of developing Alzheimer's disease and breast cancer. ...
Apr. 8, 2024 Researchers offer insights into the ethical dilemmas and legal complexities surrounding brain organoids, especially those derived from human fetal tissue. Their findings advocate for thorough regulatory frameworks to ensure that scientific and ...
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Apr. 16, 2024 New research has found that perceptions of globally shared life experiences and globally shared biology can strengthen psychological bonding with humanity at large, which can motivate prosocial ...
Apr. 9, 2024 Understanding how social media is used during a disaster can help with disaster preparedness and recovery for future ...
Apr. 8, 2024 Researchers have developed a new method to predict the financial impacts climate change will have on agriculture, which can help support food security and financial stability for countries ...
Feb. 26, 2024 The average researcher thinks they are better than their colleagues at following good research practice. They also think that their own research field is better than other research fields at ...
Feb. 26, 2024 World hunger is growing at an alarming rate, with prolonged conflicts, climate change, and COVID-19 exacerbating the problem. In 2022, the World Food Programme helped a record 158 million people. On ...
Feb. 22, 2024 Remember the 2022 baby formula crisis? The historic shortage of infant formula that year highlighted the precarious balance between regulation, competition and safety, according to a new study. The ...
Feb. 16, 2024 You may not realize it, but 'nudge' has been used by businesses, policy-makers and governments for years to prod the public into making different choices. Small changes in our environment can 'nudge' ...
Feb. 6, 2024 A new study presents data and a mathematical model to explain why there is more unconscious, or implicit, racial bias in some cities than others. The study, which brings together the math of cities ...
Dec. 12, 2023 A climate policy that raises the price of carbon-intensive products across the entire U.S. economy would yield a side benefit of reducing nitrate ...
Nov. 30, 2023 When it comes to self-discipline, psychological research traditionally focuses on individual responsibility. Some researchers believe this is too short-sighted. Self-discipline doesn't work without ...
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Apr. 22, 2024 Primary health care, conditional cash transfers and social pensions have prevented 1.4 million deaths of all ages in Brazil over the past two decades, according to a new study. If expanded, these ...
Apr. 11, 2024 Researchers conducted a survey to understand how the mental health of displaced Ukrainians has been affected by the ongoing war. Their findings describe high levels of post-traumatic stress disorder ...
Apr. 4, 2024 Changing weather patterns induced by climate change are contributing to shifts in the location of terrorist activity, according to new ...
Mar. 21, 2024 Researchers have called for a more considered approach when embedding ethical principles in the development and governance of AI for ...
Mar. 6, 2024 Living in neighborhoods with more white residents and greater lifetime experiences of racial discrimination are linked to increased systemic inflammation during pregnancy among Black women, according ...
Jan. 17, 2024 Having more women in agriculture is associated with greater community well-being, according to researchers. Their work suggests that women farmers approach their operations in ways that positively ...
Dec. 14, 2023 Two new studies based on data from 2009 to 2018 show that renters living along the East and Gulf coasts of the United States face rent increases, higher eviction rates, and a lack of affordable ...
Nov. 8, 2023 After conducting the first scoping review of its kind, researchers have developed an evidence-based interactive mapping tool to assist policymakers as they consider regulating the concentration of ...
Oct. 27, 2023 As urbanization advances around the globe, the quality of the urban physical environment will become increasingly critical to human well-being and to sustainable development initiatives. However, ...
Oct. 25, 2023 A holistic transformation is needed for the planet to accommodate people's pursuit of well-being. A new study explores a Theory of Planetary Social Pedagogy as a driver of a transformative ...
Oct. 20, 2023 Increasingly used in medicine, AI raises both hopes and concerns. An international task force has laid out recommendations to ensure AI medical devices help patients and avoid worsening health ...
Oct. 20, 2023 New perspective argues pursuing fair AI for healthcare requires cross-disciplinary collaboration to translate methods into real-world ...
Oct. 12, 2023 Food shortages caused by extreme weather could lead to civil unrest in the UK, according to a new study which has surveyed some of the country’s leading food ...
Oct. 10, 2023 New research offers an improved strategy for social media communications during wildfires and contradicting existing crisis communication ...
Oct. 2, 2023 People frequently exposed to racial or ethnic discrimination may be more susceptible to obesity and related health risks in part because of a stress response that changes biological processes and how ...
Aug. 30, 2023 New research suggests parental incarceration elevates cardiovascular risk in early adulthood, potentially contributing to larger health ...
Aug. 17, 2023 Thanks to continuous advances in human stem cell research, studies that make use of embryo models are progressing quickly. This research offers both a scientific and ethical alternative to the use of ...
Greater Excess Mortality After Hurricanes More Recently and for Most Socially Vulnerable in the U.S.
Aug. 16, 2023 Over recent decades, there was a large variation in cyclone-related excess deaths by hurricane, state, county, year, and social vulnerability for counties in the United States, with 83 percent of ...
Aug. 7, 2023 A person's own behavior is the primary driver of how they treat others during brief, zero-sum-game competitions, researchers report. Generous people tend to reward generous behavior and selfish ...
Aug. 3, 2023 A population genetics team recently identified the genetic relationship between over 40,000 23andMe users and a population of enslaved and free African Americans that lived in Catoctin Furnace, ...
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- Greater Excess Mortality After Hurricanes More Recently and for Most Socially Vulnerable in the U.S.
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- Heat or Eat? Prepayment Users Consume Less Fruit and Vegetables, Study Finds
- Using 1980s Environmental Modeling to Mitigate Future Disasters: Could Japan's 3/11 Disaster Have Been Prevented?
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- Algae-Based Food Goes Global: Scaling Up Marine Aquaculture to Produce Nutritious, Sustainable Food
- Blessing or Curse? How the Pandemic and the War Impact Energy Transitions
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- Can Shifting Social Norms Help Mitigate Climate Change?
- Global Hunger, Carbon Emissions Could Both Spike If War Limits Grain Exports
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- Ethics Not Only Allow but Demand Placebo in Some HIV Cure Trials, Paper Finds
- Hundreds of Hospitals on Atlantic and Gulf Coasts at Risk of Flooding from Hurricanes
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- Global Food Supply-Chain Issues Call for Solutions
- People Less Outraged by Gender Discrimination Caused by Algorithms
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- A New Study Shows Benefits to Dispatching Mental Health Specialists in Nonviolent 911 Emergencies
- Higher Socioeconomic Status Linked to Increased Air Pollution Exposure in China
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- AI Ethical Decision Making: Is Society Ready?
- A New Data-Driven Model Could Provide a Powerful Policy Planning Tool to Combat the Nation's Opioid Crisis