Building codes pay for themselves in disaster-prone regions
After the devastation of Hurricane Andrew in 1992, Florida adopted tough new building codes. They quickly paid for themselves, a new study finds.
After the devastation of Hurricane Andrew in 1992, Florida adopted tough new building codes. They quickly paid for themselves, a new study finds.
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More than 19 percent of college students are eligible for financial aid but don’t complete a FAFSA form, according to published research from an economics professor at the United States Military Academy at West Point.
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A 2017 study suggests a link between certain facial features and the severity of the punishment a judge assigns to felony crime.
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Worship, by reducing stress, may be the secret to longer and healthier lives.
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As people who live near hydraulic fracking have long complained, the process seems to poison their water. A new paper measures the distance prospectors should keep from water supplies.
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Two recent papers project how inland communities will be negatively affected by climate change and predict destabilizing migrations.
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Talk of fake news dominated the 2016 presidential election cycle. New research examines how people fall for such disinformation.
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An estimated 603.7 million adults and 107.7 million children worldwide were obese in 2015, according to new estimates published in The New England Journal of Medicine. China and the U.S. had the highest number of obese adults.
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As the planet warms, record-breaking heat waves have become a public health crisis in developing countries like India, where the heat has killed thousands in recent years.
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A federal program that subsidizes minority-owned businesses is not equipping them for success, a new study finds.
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