Urbanization

New model shows it is easier to find partners in high populationCredit: Rafael de Nadai EVANSTON, Ill. -- Your intuition is correct. You are more likely to become a victim of a crime if you live in a big city. Researchers have long…

Credit: UTSA Beginning in the Fall of 2019, faculty members at The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) will conduct research to enhance green power generation and smart grid security. Through the strategic alliance between…

Technological progress in the Levant fits a 'punctuated equilibrium' modelCredit: E. Ben-Yosef and the Central Timna Valley Project During the late 10th century BCE, the emerging Edomite Kingdom of the southern Levant experienced a…

Credit: Kai Lehikoinen Even though the majority of the Finnish youth are thriving, some of them are wrestling with a host of problems. Studies find that 14% of Finns born in 1987 hadn't completed any degrees within nine years after…

As cities grow in size, crime grows even faster. But while certain types of crime -- car theft and robbery, for example -- exponentially outpace the population, other crime categories buck the trend. Rape, for example, grows only…

Credit: Gao et al./Transportation Many Americans use a ride-hailing service -- like Uber or Lyft -- to get to and from work. It provides the privacy of riding in a personal car and the convenience of catching up on emails or social…

Credit: Included in photo When Hennig Brandt discovered the element phosphorus in 1669, it was a mistake. He was really looking for gold. But his mistake was a very important scientific discovery. What Brandt couldn't have…

Research demonstrates how mobile technology is altering the way users view the outside world based on battery life and charging points New research from Cass Business School has found that battery icons on mobile phones shape how people…

Study estimates that the creation of the 503 superblocks called for in the initial plan would reduce annual air pollution by 24%Credit: ISGlobal Barcelona, September 9, 2019-. The city of Barcelona could prevent 667 premature…

PITTSBURGH, PA (September 6, 2019) - Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering collaborated with Uber Advanced Technologies Group (Uber ATG) to better understand how advanced…