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No negative effects found from E30 fuel on state vehicle fleet
What if the key to cleaner, cheaper fuel wasn’t waiting for tomorrow’s technology but was already here?This post was originally published on this site
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How grassroots logistics networks fed New Yorkers during COVID-19 crisis
Grassroots logistics networks provided food and essential goods to New Yorkers who fell through the cracks of conventional supply chains during the COVID-19 pandemic, offering important lessons for engineers designing the next generation of distribution […]
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Engineers use artificial intelligence to predict car crashes
If you change the timing of a traffic light from 20 seconds to 30 seconds, a new artificial intelligence tool developed by Johns Hopkins University researchers can predict how many more—or how many fewer—accidents will […]
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Historian traces transformation of US nursing homes into big business
In postwar America, as suburbs spread and federal social welfare programs expanded, one underexamined building type quietly became a fixture of the American health care landscape: the nursing home.This post was originally published on this […]
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Charts can be social artifacts that communicate more than just data
The degree to which someone trusts the information depicted in a chart can depend on their assumptions about who made the data visualization, according to a pair of studies by MIT researchers.This post was originally […]
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Who goes to the ballet? Education and social connections matter more than income, study finds
Why do some people regularly attend the opera, visit art galleries, or go to classical music concerts—while others rarely, if ever, do?This post was originally published on this site
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How land use policies can contribute to racial segregation in communities
New research published in International Studies of Economics sheds light on an important but often overlooked driver of racial segregation in housing: minimum lot size zoning policies, or local regulations requiring a minimum amount of […]
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Scenario-based method enables businesses to rank emissions-reduction strategies by cost and impact
Compile an emissions balance sheet, evaluate climate-protection measures and implement the most efficient of these first: Researchers from three Fraunhofer institutes have developed a method with which companies from all sectors are able, based on […]
Phys.org - Politics
Ideological polarization and spread of biased or fake news on Facebook are on the rise, according to study
A study led by Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) confirms the rise in ideological polarization and biased or false news posted on Facebook. This research analyzed over 6 million news-related URLs—from 1,231 different domains in the […]
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Global supply chains benefit most from who you know, says study
In a time of tariffs and political trade disputes, new UBC Okanagan research shows that it’s not what you know but who you know—and how well you treat them.This post was originally published on this […]