Keeping guns away from potential mass shooters
Credit: Photo by Derwin Edwards from Pexels EAST LANSING, Mich. - The United States currently averages 20 mass shootings per ...
Tag: Policy/Ethics
New study to examine impact of environmental exposure on breast cancer risk in young women
UMass Amherst cancer epidemiologist awarded National Institutes of Health grantCredit: UMass Amherst A University of Massachusetts Amherst cancer epidemiologist has ...
New research uses physiological cues to distinguish computer-generated faces from human ones
Human heartbeats are the basis of the science, published in SPIE and IS&T's Journal of Electronic ImagingCredit: Bonomi and Boato ...
Study provides the first data on concussion risk in youth football
Credit: Virginia Tech For decades, there's been a widespread assumption among people with an interest in sports-related injury that youth ...
The carbon footprint of dinner: How ‘green’ are fish sticks?
Popular products generate significant 'post-catch' emissions, underscoring the need to measure what happens after fish are caughtCredit: UC Santa Cruz ...
Local activism can’t be crushed, research finds. At most, it changes target
New research by Fabrizio Perretti and Alessandro Piazza in the Strategic Management Journal finds that when community activists reach their ...
Vermont releases report by nation’s first state-led AI taskforce
Recommendations include the establishment of a permanent commissionCredit: Ryan Flanagan Vermont, the first state in the nation to form a ...
More federal funding needed to increase Americans’ active transportation habits
Credit: Photo by Ryan Young for Virginia Tech. The federal government has allocated only about 2 percent of its transportation ...
Life Cycle Assessment pinpoints ‘sustainability hotspots’ in bio-chemical production
New research concerning Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) reveals challenges and opportunities in bio-chemical production.Credit: The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for ...
Conversational difficulties with father affect adolescent health
Conversational difficulties with father after a divorce affects the children's health negativelyCredit: UiB "This demonstrates that contact with both parents ...
New research finds ranchers consider diverse factors in managing their land
Credit: Virginia Tech Wetlands in the Intermountain West, a region nestled between the Rocky Mountains, the Cascade Range, and the ...
Can solar geoengineering mitigate both climate change and income inequality?
Potential economic benefits of reversing rising temperatures would benefit developing countries greatly, representing a global GDP growth of 200%Credit: Anastasia ...
Of ants and men: Ant behavior might mirror political polarization
Princeton researchers find that division of labor and political polarization may be driven by the same processes in ant societies.Credit: ...
Study links Medicaid expansion and recipients’ health status
Credit: Department of Health Policy, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine In Southern states that expanded their Medicaid programs under the ...