Multi-ethnic neighborhoods in England retain diversity unlike in the U.S.
Multi-ethnic neighborhoods in England retain their diversity and are much more stable than such neighborhoods in the U.S., according to geographers from the U.S. and U.K. The team examined how neighborhood diversity has changed on a national scale fr.....»»
Woolly mammoths may have shared the landscape with first humans in New England
Woolly mammoths may have walked the landscape at the same time as the earliest humans in what is now New England, according to a Dartmouth study published in Boreas. Through the radiocarbon dating of a rib fragment from the Mount Holly mammoth from M.....»»
Diversity of fish species supply endangered killer whale diet throughout the year
Endangered Southern Resident killer whales prey on a diversity of Chinook and other salmon. The stocks come from an enormous geographic range as far north as Alaska and as far south as California's Central Valley, a new analysis in PLOS ONE shows......»»
Neglected species: The symbolic significance of saving snails
Later this year, virtually all the countries on Earth are due to meet in China under the Convention on Biological Diversity to agree global conservation targets for 2030. Virtually may be the operative word, if COVID-19 precludes member states from m.....»»
MUSE sheds more light on central kinematics of Messier 15
Using the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE), astronomers have performed observations of an old globular cluster known as Messier 15. The observational campaign delivered essential information about stellar kinematics of the central region of t.....»»
Mammal ancestors moved in their own unique way
The backbone is the Swiss Army Knife of mammal locomotion. It can function in all sorts of ways that allows living mammals to have remarkable diversity in their movements. They can run, swim, climb and fly all due, in part, to the extensive reorganiz.....»»
Microsoft’s Azure Arc multi-cloud platform now supports machine learning workloads
With Azure Arc, Microsoft offers a service that allows its customers to run Azure in any Kubernetes environment, no matter where that container cluster is hosted. From Day One, Arc supported a wide range of use cases, but one feature that was sorely.....»»
"Canary in the mine" warning following new discovery of the effects of pollutants on fertility
New research has found that shrimp like creatures on the South Coast of England have 70 percent less sperm than less polluted locations elsewhere in the world. The research also discovered that individuals living in the survey area are six times less.....»»
64 human genomes as new reference for global genetic diversity
20 years after the successful completion of the Human Genome Project', an international research group has now sequenced 64 human genomes at high resolution. This reference data includes individuals from around the world, better capturing the genetic.....»»
Hear from Uber, Facebook and Netflix about diversity, equity and inclusion at TC Sessions: Justice
Hear from Uber, Facebook and Netflix about diversity, equity and inclusion at TC Sessions: Justice.....»»
Hear from Uber, Facebook and Netflix about diversity, equity and inclusion tomorrow at TC Sessions: Justice
Hear from Uber, Facebook and Netflix about diversity, equity and inclusion tomorrow at TC Sessions: Justice.....»»
Walking away from the beat—why police officers are voluntarily leaving in large numbers
Home Office data shows the number of police officers voluntarily resigning from the force in England and Wales has more than doubled in the last eight years......»»
Woods Bagot tops school library with "tree-like" timber ceiling
Woods Bagot has completed a library building at a girls' boarding school in Wiltshire, England, that features a faceted wooden ceiling designed to evoke spreading tree branches. Read more Woods Bagot has completed a library building at a gir.....»»
Populous designs esports stadium for Toronto
Architecture studio Populous has unveiled visuals of a multi-purpose arena in Toronto, Canada, designed to be able to host music concerts, plays and esports competitions. Read more Architecture studio Populous has unveiled visuals of a mul.....»»
Has a startup finally found one of food science’s holy grails with its healthy sugar substitute?
A little less than three years ago at the Computer Science Museum in Mountain View, Calif. the founders of a young company hailing from Cambridge, England addressed a crowd of celebrities, investors and entrepreneurs at Y Combinator’s August De.....»»
Improving water quality could help conserve insectivorous birds
A new study shows that a widespread decline in abundance of emergent insects—whose immature stages develop in lakes and streams while the adults live on land—can help to explain the alarming decline in abundance and diversity of aerial insectivor.....»»
MLM schemes in the UK: The "cult-like" beauty businesses in your DMs
Newsbeat hears from young women about their experiences working for multi-level marketing companies......»»
A cat of all trades
Large carnivores are generally sensitive to ecosystem changes because their specialized diet and position at the top of the trophic pyramid is associated with small population sizes. This in turn leads to lower genetic diversity in top predators comp.....»»
Register for TC Sessions: Justice for a conversation on diversity, equity and inclusion in the startup world
Register for TC Sessions: Justice for a conversation on diversity, equity and inclusion in the startup world.....»»
One California community shows how to take the waste out of water
Caught between climate change and multi-year droughts, California communities are tapping groundwater and siphoning surface water at unsustainable rates......»»
What’s Driving India’s Most Powerful IT Industry Segment During Pandemic
What’s Driving India’s Most Powerful IT Industry Segment During Pandemic Software product is one of the powerful segments of IT sectors which have the potential to grow multi-folds and can also be the economic driver in the future. The strength o.....»»