Dec. 15, 2022 —A new study demonstrates how anonymized GPS data from people's smartphones can be used to monitor the public's use of parks and other green spaces in urban areas, which could help inform ...
Dec. 12, 2022 —By breaking the laws of physics in a virtual reality environment, researchers find that changing the location of a virtual assistant's voice in specific ways can be used as a tool to build ...
Dec. 8, 2022 —Co-working spaces can limit the creativity and innovation of new businesses, a study has ...
Nov. 30, 2022 —Women are less likely to ask questions during question-and-answer sessions at academic conferences. Research suggests that this may be due to anxiety about how colleagues will receive their ...
Nov. 4, 2022 —Life on land may have quieted down during the height of the pandemic, but far offshore the Atlantic Ocean was just as active as ever according to a new study. Researchers found that there was no ...
Oct. 12, 2022 —Maintaining green parks and gardens in cities has the potential to lower the risk of crime, research suggests. More green space in a city is linked with lower risk of crime against property -- such ...
May 12, 2022 —When designing public spaces or other places where foot traffic is considered, planners and architects need to know how people perceive the spaces in question. It is commonly believed that a space ...
Apr. 28, 2022 —New evidence links residential exposure to greenspace, such as green vegetation, as a potential population-level approach to improve processing speed and attention, and overall cognitive ...
Mar. 2, 2022 —New research has found that people who spent more time in green spaces reported less anxiety and depression during the first year of the pandemic. Merely having abundant green space nearby, as ...
Mar. 1, 2022 —A study has analyzed the relationship between exposure to different green spaces and oxidative stress in children. The study concluded that greater exposure to vegetation is associated with lower ...
Oct. 12, 2021 —The pandemic-related drop in greenhouse gas emissions in 2020 was likely the largest on record in a single year, but how our recovery might affect future emissions is less clear. New modeling ...
June 18, 2021 —Climate change will shape the future of coastal communities, with flood walls, elevated structures and possibly even floating cities used to combat sea level rise. New research has found that managed ...
May 12, 2021 —Anthropologists explore how complex community patterns in Easter Island helped the isolated island survive from its settlement in the 12th to 13th century until European ...
Apr. 28, 2021 —More green spaces in an area is associated with a lower racial disparity in COVID-19 infection rates, according to the first study to examine the relationship between the supply of green spaces and ...
Apr. 19, 2021 —Researchers worked with almost 260 people to understand online disagreements and to develop potential design interventions that could make these discussions more productive and centered around ...
Mar. 26, 2021 —The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is underestimating methane emissions from oil and gas production in its annual Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks, according to new ...
Mar. 9, 2021 —Researchers are taking scientific inspiration from an unlikely source: the biblical tale of Noah's Ark. Rather than two of every animal, however, his solar-powered ark on the moon would store ...
Feb. 8, 2021 —In Africa, air pollution recently surpassed AIDS as the leading cause of premature death. But researchers have discovered at least a temporary bright spot: dangerous nitrogen oxides, byproducts of ...
Jan. 28, 2021 —Global circulating winds can carry bacteria, fungal spores, viruses and pollen over long distances and across national borders, but the United States is ill-prepared to confront future disease ...
Dec. 18, 2020 —By delving into scientific, technological, environmental and economic data, engineering researchers examined whether New York could achieve a statewide carbon-free economy by 2050. Their finding: ...
