A team of scientists at the University of Helsinki has studied cat personality and behavior by collecting a large dataset of 4,316 cats from 56 different breeds, house cats and mixed breed cats, with online questionnaires. Mikkola et al. examined the structure, test-retest reliability, inter-rater reliability, convergent validity and discriminant …
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Yelp announced two initiatives designed to fight racism and promote diversity and inclusion among local businesses. The company expanded a relationship with non-profit consortium Open to All to make training resources available “for small and medium-sized businesses to uplevel their diversity and inclusion practices.” The other initiative could prove more …
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A team of physicists from the University of Birmingham and the University of Bath has identified a method to visualize, over a millionth of a billionth of a second, the initial quantum behavior of electrons on a surface. The scanning tunneling microscope used to inject electrons into a silicon surface. …
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A large genome-wide association study of more than 560,000 people has identified 10 new genetic regions associated with the number of children we have during the course of our life, and the age at which we have our first child. Nicola Barban et al identified ten new areas of the …
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