Socioeconomics

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…

One quarter of refugees have inadequate levels of social support Most research on the mental health of refugees focuses on the first few years after resettlement in the host country, but little is known about their long-term mental health.…

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…

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Political polarization among Americans has grown rapidly in the last 40 years -- more than in Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia or Germany -- a phenomenon possibly due to increased racial division, the rise of…

Limiting global warming to well below 2°C requires a decarbonized world by 2050 at the latest and a corresponding global transformation of the energy and land use systems of societies across the world. To achieve this goal of net-zero…

Credit: Photo by Mika Baumeister on Unsplash EAST LANSING, Mich. - Does the common stereotype for "organized crime" hold up for organizations of hackers? Research from Michigan State University is one of the first to identify common…

Vast funding goes into research on the impact of climate change and adaptation to it, rather than into trying find out how it can be prevented sociallyCredit: University of Sussex Researchers from the Norwegian Institute of…

New research by Fabrizio Perretti and Alessandro Piazza in the Strategic Management Journal finds that when community activists reach their goals, they galvanize; when they fail, mobilization does not fade away, but spills over to other…

Credit: The University of Oklahoma NORMAN, OKLA. - The University of Oklahoma has entered an agreement to develop a $9 million program of joint research with Universidad Nacional de San Agustin, one of Peru's largest and oldest public…

With 2020 just starting, scientists around the world are wondering what the year has in store for them. To help steer them straight, Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN), the weekly newsmagazine of the American Chemical Society, is…