Attendees at a meeting of a US Senate appropriations committee on 31 July: from left, Patty Murray, a Democrat from Washington state; Susan Collins, a Republican from Maine; and Mitch McConnell, a Republican from Kentucky.Credit: Tom…
Category: Other Sciences
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India to penalize universities with too many retractions
Misconduct is the main reason journal articles from India are retracted.Credit: sritakoset/Shutterstock
India’s national university ranking will start penalizing institutions if a sizable number of papers published by their researchers are…
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How scientists can contribute to the social movements essential to protecting climate and nature
Some environmental social movement organisations carry out disruptive actions that carry a risk of arrest, which can achieve significant public attention via social media and press coverage (e.g., ref. 30). Scientists can shape, organise and…
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Protest in times of change. The PROTEiCA project survey
This section details the data production processes of the PROTEiCA survey, including sampling strategy, questionnaire administration, fieldwork implementation, and weighting procedures. These methodological considerations ensure the reliability…
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A dataset for recognition of Arabic accents from spoken L2 English speech (ArL2Eng)
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The ArL2Eng dataset is licensed under the International Creative-Commons-Attribution License 4.0, allowing a wide distribution in academic and educational research. The 238 files taken from8 and integrated in our dataset are also given…
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A multimodal dataset for understanding the impact of mobile phones on remote online virtual education
This section outlines the experimental methods and materials used for data collection. The dataset was obtained in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid…
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Permissive gun laws in the USA linked to thousands of child deaths
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A new analysis shows that more-permissive state-level…
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Bronze Jars Found in Italy Contain 2,500-Year-Old Honey, Archaeologists Find
Archaeologists have re-examined a 2500-year-old residue found in bronze jars at an underground shrine in Paestum, Italy, previously identified as a wax/fat/resin mixture. Using a multianalytical approach, the authors have detected lipids,…
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Australopithecus Males Were Much Larger than Females, Paleoanthropologist Says
Two extinct hominins, Australopithecus afarensis and Australopithecus africanus, were significantly more dimorphic than chimpanzees and modern humans; Australopithecus afarensis were also significantly more dimorphic than Australopithecus…
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Memories Drift across Neurons over Time, Animal Study Suggests
The brain’s internal GPS changes each time mice navigate a familiar, static environment, according to a new study by neurobiologists from Northwestern University and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. The results illuminate the…
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