News & Stories Breadcrumb Home All News Research Newsmakers SPIA Reacts Community Profiles Jul 02, 2020 Global Threats: How Lessons from Covid-19 Can Prevent Environmental Meltdown Epidemiologists highlighted the dangers of Covid-19 in its early stages, but their warnings went largely ignored until rising infection rates forced… Jun 23, 2020 Why the U.S. Doesn’t Need More Nuclear Pits Right Now The U.S. Congress is currently debating whether to build and operate a plutonium pit-production factory in South Carolina. It would be the country’s… Jun 22, 2020 Simple Interventions Can Help People Spot False Headlines The avalanche of online content available to people around the world has outpaced humans’ ability to separate fact from what can be highly toxic and… Jun 09, 2020 Study on Shorebirds Suggests That When Conserving Species, Not All Land is Equal Jun 02, 2020 Discrimination, Inequality May Erase ‘Birthweight Advantage' of Black U.S. Immigrants in One Generation Black women have the highest prevalence of low birthweight babies compared to other racial and ethnic groups, but black immigrants typically have… May 19, 2020 Local Climate Unlikely to Drive the Early COVID-19 Pandemic May 18, 2020 For People in Diverse Areas, Community Identity Supersedes Racial, Ethnic Differences In an increasingly polarized world, many see people who are different from them as “outsiders,” or even a threat. Yet, around the world, this tends… May 13, 2020 Double-Whammy Weather: Study Identifies Increased Frequency of Connected Patterns from Drought to Heavy Rain in Regional Hotspots Across the Globe Like an undulating seesaw, weather in some regions swings from drought to heavy rain under the weight of climate-induced changes, according to an… May 12, 2020 COVID-19′s Silent Spread: Princeton Researchers Explore How Symptomless Transmission Helps Pathogens Thrive Apr 24, 2020 To Combat Covid-19, Behavioral Pitfalls Must Be Addressed During any crisis, timely, and sometimes life-altering, decisions must be made, requiring an extreme amount of sound judgment under uncertainty. The… Apr 16, 2020 Mentoring Programs Help Female Economists Secure Tenure-Track Positions There remains a dearth of women in economics, with far fewer females securing tenure-track jobs and publishing academic research than men. Past… Mar 31, 2020 Projecting the Outcomes of People’s Lives with AI Isn’t So Simple The machine learning techniques scientists use to predict outcomes from large datasets may fall short when it comes to projecting the outcomes of… Mar 30, 2020 Poor People Experience Greater Financial Hardship in Areas Where Income Inequality is Greatest Study Shows How a Lack of Community Support Caused by Inequality Exacerbates Cycles of PovertyWhile some are relying on friends and neighbors to help… Mar 18, 2020 Racial Disparities in Pollution Exposure Fell Thanks to Clean Air Act Many case studies suggest that low income and racial minority groups face disproportionately high exposures to environmental pollution. But the… Mar 09, 2020 Collaborating With a Team of Rivals Can Resolve Conflict — and Advance Science Five social scientists holed up in an Amsterdam hotel for a week with the goal of reaching a scientific consensus on how people form stereotypes… Pagination First page « First Previous page ‹ Previous … Page 4 Page 5 Current page 6 Page 7 Page 8 … Next page Next › Last page Last »
