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Double Majors: Influences, Identities and Impacts
2012 study from Vanderbilt University on the demographics, motivations and outcomes of double majoring in college.
Misrepresentation of Randomized Controlled Trials in Press Releases and News Coverage
2012 study published in PLoS Medicine that analyzes studies, their associated press releases and subsequent media coverage to understand how accurately the research results were conveyed.
Expert Credibility in Climate Change
2010 study in PNAS analyzing the beliefs of more than 1,000 scientists about human-induced climate change.
Hotspot of Accelerated Sea-level Rise on the Atlantic Coast of North America
2012 study in the journal Nature Climate Change on rates of change in the ocean levels for the Northeastern United States.
Comparing the Yields of Organic and Conventional Agriculture
2012 metastudy published in the journal Nature on the crop yields of organic and conventional farming.
Do Colleges and Universities Increase Their Region’s Human Capital?
2011 study from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on the dynamics between higher education and local economies.
U.S. National Science Board: Science and Engineering Indicators 2012
2012 report from the National Science Foundation putting U.S. research and development and high tech industries in global context.
2012 study in the American Sociological Review on trends relating to partisan affiliation and trust in science.
The Geological Record of Ocean Acidification
2012 paper published in the journal Science on historic patterns in carbon dioxide and ocean acidification and the implications for the future.
Confessions That Corrupt: Evidence from the DNA Exoneration Case Files
2012 report by City University of New York, The University of California-Irvine and Nova Southeastern University on how criminal confessions can taint supporting evidence.
2012 report from the American Cancer Society on cancer facts and figures.
Evidence for Evolution in Response to Natural Selection in a Contemporary Human Population
2011 study for the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on evolution and natural selection in human beings within recent generations.
IPCC: Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation
2012 report by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on the potential impacts of climate change and potential management strategies.
Structure of Scientific Opinion on Climate Change
2011 study surveying and analyzing scientific opinion on issues of global climate change and its causes.
Are Political Orientations Genetically Transmitted?
2005 study in the American Political Science Review on genetics and political predisposition.
Population of Bed Bugs Reveals Mechanisms of Resistance
2011 study in PLoS One on genetic mutations in bedbugs and resistance to insecticides.
Perceptions of Persons in the Persistent Vegetative State
2011 study in the journal Cognition measuring the public’s general perceptions of patients living in a persistent vegetative state.
Scientists Negotiate Boundaries Between Religion and Science
2011 study in the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion about how scientists and academics view religious belief.
Creativity Bias: Why New Ideas Get Rejected
2011 study by Cornell University on feelings of uncertainty and the adoption of novel or practical ideas.
Economic Impacts of Non-Native Forest Insects in the Continental United States
2011 study on the types of introduced woodland pests and the economic costs they incur.
