Elaborate burial sites can provide insight to the development of socio-political hierarchies in early human communities, according to a study released August 28, 2019 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by an international ...
Archaeology
Aug 28, 2019
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A summer afternoon at the beach quickly became a scramble to save a pod of disoriented pilot whales, with vacationers joining lifeguards and state wildlife crews in the water trying to keep roughly 30 of the large marine ...
Ecology
Jul 17, 2019
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Climbing the social ladder is a ruff business for dogs, new research shows.
Plants & Animals
Jul 2, 2019
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The college admissions cheating scandal has outraged millions, bringing to light the gaps between the privileged and less privileged citizens. Being a social scientist who studies societal origins of economic and health inequalities, ...
Social Sciences
Apr 4, 2019
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Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago, in collaboration with colleagues from the University of Texas at Austin, have found that while many high school peer crowds and influences have remained constant over ...
Social Sciences
Jan 8, 2019
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10
The cost of college may be on the rise, but most still agree that it's a sound investment. There are, in fact, a number of personal and societal benefits associated with getting a bachelor's degree and, it seems, people know ...
Social Sciences
Jun 13, 2017
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Within a group of meerkats, call patterns vary with factors including sex, rank and reproductive season—but not with stress hormones, according to a study published May 3, 2017 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Jelena ...
Plants & Animals
May 3, 2017
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39
Competitive sports and games are all about the performance of players and teams, which results in performance-based hierarchies. Because such performance is measurable and is the result of varied rules, sports and games are ...
General Physics
Dec 20, 2016
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5
In the world of chimpanzees, being the alpha male definitely has its benefits and, as with humans, it's good to have powerful friends.
Plants & Animals
Nov 8, 2016
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338
Since the time of Pythagoras around 500 BCE, music and mathematics have had an intimate and mutually supportive relationship.
Mathematics
Jul 21, 2016
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