#Study finds clothing-based racist stereotypes persist against Black men

“#Study finds clothing-based racist stereotypes persist against Black men” Credit: Oregon State University Hardworking or lazy; trustworthy or dangerous: People often make assumptions about someone’s character and personality based solely on how they’re dressed. A recent study from Oregon State University finds that while more formal clothing may deflect certain racially biased assumptions, many people…

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#Starfish provide missing link in evolution of key brain messenger molecules

“#Starfish provide missing link in evolution of key brain messenger molecules” Starfish Asterias rubens. Credit: Ray Crundwell Cells in our nervous system, or neurons, communicate with other cells by releasing chemical messengers, which bind to receptor proteins on neighboring cells and change their activity. Neuropeptides are one type of chemical messenger used by neurons to…

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#World’s largest study shows carbon pricing reduces emissions

“#World’s largest study shows carbon pricing reduces emissions” Credit: CC0 Public Domain There is strong evidence that carbon pricing works to strongly reduce emissions, according to the world’s largest study on the issue published by researchers at The Australian National University (ANU) and Macquarie University today. The study examined carbon emission trends from 142 countries…

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#Third of Bangladesh underwater as monsoon drenches region

“#Third of Bangladesh underwater as monsoon drenches region” Almost four million people have been hit by monsoon floods in South Asia, officials said Thursday, with a third of Bangladesh already underwater from some of the heaviest rains in a decade. The monsoon—which usually falls from June to September—is crucial to the economy of the Indian…

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#Air pollution in the U.S. declines during the COVID-19 pandemic

“#Air pollution in the U.S. declines during the COVID-19 pandemic” Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States instituted business closures, social distancing and other policy measures to combat the spread of disease. University of Minnesota School of Public Health researchers began studying how these measures further impact our environment,…

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#Research enlightens population genomics and adaptive evolution of ancient relictual plant

“#Research enlightens population genomics and adaptive evolution of ancient relictual plant” Population structure of Circaeaster agresti. Credit: WBG The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP) is the largest and highest plateau in the world. The uplift of the QTP provides extraordinarily geomorphological and climatic diversity, promoting rapid radiation in plant lineages, while also harboring some ancient relictual taxa, such…

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#Exchange bias in van der Waals heterostructures

“#Exchange bias in van der Waals heterostructures” Schematic showing (left) the device structure, with optical image of the CrCl3/Fe3GeTe2 heterostructure on top of the Pt Hall contacts shown in the inset. (Right) Rxy~H loops showing the experimental outcome of the tests done on the device structure using two types of materials – individual Fe3GeTe2(30 nm)…

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#Homo erectus hand ax found in East Africa

“#Homo erectus hand ax found in East Africa” Credit: Berhane Asfaw, University of Tokyo A team of researchers from Japan, Hong Kong and Ethiopia has found a hand ax that they believe was made by a possibly direct human ancestor in what is now modern Ethiopia. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National…

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#Scientists discover fault system in southeastern Nepal

“#Scientists discover fault system in southeastern Nepal” U of A graduate student Mike Duvall conducts fieldwork in southeastern Nepal in 2017. Duvall and his supervisor John Waldron were part of an international team of scientists who identified a series of previously unknown faults in the region. Credit: John Waldron A newly identified fault system in…

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