Policy/Ethics

The National Academy of Sciences is presenting its 2020 Public Welfare Medal to distinguished science and political communication scholar Kathleen Hall Jamieson WASHINGTON -- The National Academy of Sciences is presenting its 2020 Public…

Fentanyl use by people who use drugs has doubled since 2015, and two-thirds of people are aware they've taken it, finds new research out of British Columbia, the Canadian province that has experienced the highest number of illicit drug…

To mitigate climate change and safeguard ecosystems, we need to make drastic changes in our consumption and transport behaviors. A new IIASA study shows how even minor changes to available infrastructure can trigger tipping points in the…

She co-edits special issue of journal Biological Invasions KINGSTON, R.I. - January 23, 2020 - A special issue of the journal Biological Invasions, co-edited by University of Rhode Island ecologist Laura Meyerson and University of…

Previously unreleased data offer unprecedented view into mining industry's waste storage practices Environmental organization GRID-Arendal has launched the world's first publicly accessible global database of mine tailings storage…

Credit: Photo by Derwin Edwards from Pexels EAST LANSING, Mich. - The United States currently averages 20 mass shootings per year. Researchers from Michigan State University measured the extent to which mass shootings are committed by…

The findings may inform care in other parts of the hospital to improve end-of-life experiences Family caregivers of the deceased rated the quality of end-of-life care in the intensive care unit (ICU) higher than the end-of-life care in…

UMass Amherst cancer epidemiologist awarded National Institutes of Health grantCredit: UMass Amherst A University of Massachusetts Amherst cancer epidemiologist has received a $462,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health to expand…

Fine-grained data surface new insights into gender disparities at universities Over her lifetime, the average female scientific researcher at a New Zealand university earns about NZ$400,000 less than her male counterparts, and less than…

A first-of-its-kind study of over 200,000 Instagram posts showed that positive vaping hashtags are used 10,000 times more often than an FDA awareness campaign hashtag, highlighting limited impacts to address the growing use of vaping among…