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The assumption about farm automation that may be wrong
You've likely heard this assumption: When AI-enabled and autonomous machines arrive on the farm, jobs will disappear. But researchers at the University of Calif...
Public health programs can 'rewire' social networks, study finds
An educational program intended to improve maternal and child health fundamentally altered the social fabric of the rural Honduran villages where it was impleme...
Disiplinang walang palo: Challenging common Filipino parenting misbeliefs
More frequent spanking is linked to greater anxiety and aggression in children over time, according to international research that includes Filipino families pr...
Stream restoration improves biodiversity but not necessarily ecosystem functioning
The EU Nature Restoration Regulation adopted in 2024 establishes the restoration of ecosystem functions as an objective of stream restoration. But can conventio...
Study: Pandemic arrest patterns may have deepened existing inequalities in policing
The COVID-19 pandemic was a public health crisis that affected more than the public's health. It brought complex changes across many aspects of society, includi...
Ants break a basic rule of biology to help them adapt to new environments
A new study led by researchers in the Eco-Evo-Devo lab at the University of Ottawa finds that ants can decouple antenna size from both head and body size as the...
Microplastics in sediment could trace decades of human activity worldwide
In a review article recently published in the journal Earth-Science Reviews, researchers from the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (IOW), in...
A house ages alongside its occupants, according to researcher
Flemish people are very attached to their homes and generally wish to stay there for as long as possible. However, many homes were not designed to be lived in f...
Study highlights need for policymakers to look at digital policies as part of energy, climate planning
A new study underscores the extent to which digital policies cannot be separated from energy policies. The research evaluates the relationship between informati...
A parasite carried by one-third of humanity can't reproduce if one key protein is disabled
A protein discovered in a Virginia Tech–led study may open a gateway to treatments for a parasite responsible for a deadly disease in immunocompromised people....
Clustering changes how charged polymers separate in water, challenging old assumptions
A polymer science revelation about how liquid mixtures separate could have major implications for human health, metabolism and disease, new research indicates....
More than 20 years of data challenge one-size-fits-all view of Arctic cloud-forming particles
As the climate gets warmer, the number of particles that make up clouds in the Arctic may increase or decrease, depending on the specific area. A new study indi...