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A study of 66 million GPS mobility records shows that racial minorities are not as well served by transit as white New Yorkers. Publishing in PNAS Nexus, Yong Li and colleagues mapped the number of job sites, banks, health care…
The Liquid Oxygen Flight demonstration (LOXSAT) will help NASA test and develop technologies to support in-space transfer and storage of cryogenic propellants, critical abilities for the Artemis program to return astronauts to the moon.
Researchers have uncovered a new type of gender gap in the workplace that places women at a disadvantage. In a new study published in the International Economic Review, they found that women in leadership roles are judged by results alone,…
Anti-Asian discrimination and violence increased during COVID, and new research from Murdoch University has revealed one key psychological driver. Rather than being driven by a fear of infection, aggressive forms of discrimination appeared to be more strongly associated with anger.
Maul doesn’t need the Force. He needs a hug.
A new free online platform is tackling one of higher education’s most persistent problems—how students engage with and constructively use feedback they receive from academics.
The galaxy M77 looks truly out-of-this-world in a new image by the James Webb Space Telescope.
Scientists spent decades chasing signs of a mysterious new force hidden inside the muon, one of nature’s strangest particles. But after years of supercomputer calculations, researchers discovered the apparent anomaly was likely a calculation error — and the Standard Model…
A major French policy designed to make hotel prices more competitive online may not have worked as intended, but it did unlock cheaper deals for customers booking directly with hotels. The new study of European hotel markets finds that banning…
The Sun sprays an extremely fast stream of charged particles called the solar wind. At approximately 56,000 miles (90,000 kilometers) in front of the Earth toward the Sun, the solar wind collides with the Earth’s protective magnetic field, generating a…