Sperm whales learn patterns of clicks and other social behaviors from their clans.
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Inside the celebrated novelist’s first and only nonfiction essay.
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Face-altering images are encouraging selfish behavior.
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One MIT-trained poet spent nine months trying to find out.
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We’re not so different from an error-prone chatbot.
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Ecosystems are suffering without their invaluable scavenger, victim of a bad reputation.
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In our latest paper published in Safety Science, ‘Working in heat: Contrasting heat management approaches among outdoor employees and contractors’, we examine the experience of workplace heat exposure for two groups of affected outdoor workers: contracted pieceworkers in bicycle delivery and permanently employed municipal workers in parks and road maintenance. We conducted surveys and in-person interviews over several weeks at the height of the Sydney summer, and our findings reflect the well-established nexus between outside temperature, humidity and work effort in producing heat stress.
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One question for Adam Mastroianni, a psychologist at Columbia University.
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Confession is the key to mental healing.
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Poached to the edge of extinction, the bashful animals are getting by with a little help from their friends in Africa.
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