Hotspot of accelerated sea-level rise on the Atlantic Coast of North America
2012 study in the journal Nature Climate Change on the rates of change in the ocean levels for the Northeastern United States.
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Comparing the yields of organic and conventional agriculture
2012 metastudy in the journal Nature on the differences in crop yields between organic farming and conventional industrialized agriculture.
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Do colleges and universities increase their region’s human capital?
2011 study from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York published in the Journal of Economic Geography on the dynamics between higher education and local economies.
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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.
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The politicization of science: A study of public trust in the United States, 1974-2010
2012 study in the American Sociological Review on trends relating to partisan affiliation and trust in science.
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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.
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American Cancer Society: Cancer facts and figures 2012
2012 report from the American Cancer Society with projected cancer mortality rates by state, age and gender, survival trends and the impact of personal behaviors.
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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.
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Structure of scientific opinion on climate change
2011 study surveying and analyzing scientific opinion on issues of global climate change and its causes.
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Population of bed bugs reveals mechanisms of resistance
2011 Virginia Tech study in PLoS One on genetic mutations in bedbugs and their growing resistance to control with insecticides.
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