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Big firms are failing to reduce unconscious bias against disabled people, finds study

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Working for a big company or in an HR role does not lower the likelihood of showing unconscious bias against disabled people at work, a new study finds. Researchers say this is surprising because of the money many large firms spend on EDI and unconscious bias training—in 2017 up to $8 […]

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New possibilities in the theoretical prediction of particle interactions

Comparison of our result for I2(5) (plotted as curves) with numerical results from pysecdec (points). Credit: Physical Review Letters (2023). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.101601 How does the world look like at the smallest scales? This is a question scientists are trying to answer in particle collider experiments like the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Switzerland. To […]

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Changing temperatures shown to increase pesticide risk to bees

Bumblebee. Credit: Daniel Kenna/Imperial College London Temperature influences how badly pesticides affect bees’ behavior, suggesting uncertain impacts under climate change, according to a new study. The findings indicate that future extreme temperature events under climate change could increase the impact of pesticides on bee populations and their pollination services. Certain pesticides, particularly a class called […]

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A persistent influence of supernovae on biodiversity

The extraterrestrial processes responsible for influencing the diversity of life forms are usually invisible to the human eye. The Milky Way is where large stars explode, leading to supernova remnants whose shock fronts accelerate cosmic ray particles to high energies. Cosmic rays find their way to the solar system, where some collide with the atmosphere […]

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First Irish study on the experiences of people who are stalked or harassed

Gender of Respondents. Credit: STALKING AND HARASSMENT: AN INVESTIGATION OF EXPERIENCES IN IRELAND (2023). The first Irish study of those who have been stalked and/or harassed is published today (Tuesday, March 21) and reveals the social, financial and psychological impact upon those who experienced it, while urging a number of recommendations. The University College Cork […]

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Strong quake has people fleeing homes in Afghanistan, Pakistan

Residents of an apartment block in the Afghan capital gather outside their home after the quake. A strong earthquake lasting for at least 30 seconds was felt across much of Afghanistan, Pakistan and parts of India Tuesday night, with the United States Geological Survey putting the magnitude at 6.5. “It was a terrifying tremor. I […]

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New animal welfare scoring system could enable better-informed food and farming choices

Researcher Harriet Bartlett assesses pigs on a farm. Credit: University of Cambridge Cambridge University scientists have come up with a system of measuring animal welfare that enables reliable comparison across different types of pig farming. This means that animal welfare can now, for the first time, be properly considered alongside other impacts of farming to […]

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Biden protects two giant US wilderness areas

US President Joe Biden established the Avi Kwa Ame National Monument in Nevada and created the Castner Range National Monument in Texas. President Joe Biden on Tuesday designated two giant wilderness areas in Nevada and Texas as national monuments and said a new marine sanctuary could be created in the Pacific. Biden said in a […]

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New analysis offers insights into causes of persistent inequities affecting non-white scientists and their research

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A team of NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) researchers, including data and computational social scientists, is reporting new findings that highlight previously unknown ways through which non-white scientists suffer from inequities when it comes to the process of having their research considered, published, and cited, potentially hindering the advancement of their academic […]

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Environmental injustice closely tied to gender violence, new study argues

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Environmental justice and gender violence may seem like separate issues, but a new paper from a University of New Mexico professor argues that the two are closely linked. Miriam Gay-Antaki, assistant professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, recently published “Embodied geographies of environmental justice: Toward the sovereign right […]

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