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New study shows newspaper images from Hurricane Harvey in 2017 continued patterns of presenting people of color as victims and white people as rescuers bringing order back to the chaos, this may not have been conscious or ill-intentioned decisions, but reflect patterns in journalism and cultural
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Researchers have, for the first time, used CT scan to peer inside swarms of honeybees and found that the bees don’t clump together in a random group. Instead, they seem to form dome-shaped structures following surprisingly sophisticated mathematical rules, or what researchers call a “scaling law”
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For most Americans, housing was a key component in personal wealth accumulation. However, racist housing policies eroded black wealth in pre-WWII American cities. Black families paid a 28% premium to buy a home on a majority white block, after which their homes lost 10% of their value.
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Researchers have shown that individuals who are played a piano chord during sleep that was previously paired to a specialist form of nightmare therapy have happier dreams and fewer nightmares than those who didn't undergo previous pairing, showing that this approach can alter emotions in dreams.
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Climate change and the projected savannization of the Brazilian Amazon threaten most land-based mammals that live there, new research shows. The “savannization” here refers to when lush rainforest gives way to a drier, open landscape that resembles savanna but is actually degraded forest.
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Researchers discover a network of fractures in Gale Crater filled with Opal, a water-rich mineraloid. This water-rich subsurface network would have been shielded from modern harsh surface conditions, allowing for a potentially habitable environment on Mars in a more recent era.
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Access to modern military technology substantially reduces the probability of democratisation of authoritarian regimes — New details about the spread of 29 ground-breaking military technologies in all independent states from 1820 to 2010, as well as the form of government in these states
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US Emissions of the World’s Most Potent Greenhouse Gas Are 56 Percent Higher Than EPA Estimates. Electric utilities are likely responsible for the nation’s higher than expected emissions of sulfur hexafluoride, a greenhouse gas 25,000 times worse for the climate than carbon dioxide.
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Scientists are paving the way for diabetes and cancer patients to forget needles and injections, and instead take pills to manage their conditions. They have created a chemical “tag” that can be added to these drugs, allowing them to enter blood circulation via the intestines
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Being a young man, religious, and with a high income, may make you more likely to gamble on sports, according to international research which also suggests that betting on sports, daily fantasy league play, and betting on e-sports all increase the risk of developing a gambling problem.
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