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British Columbia is done with the twice-yearly ritual of clock-changing. After the spring-forward on March 8, the province will never fall back again. The B.C. government announced Monday that the province will permanently adopt daylight saving time — effectively locking…
A new mathematical study has found that people don't need to be saints to justify staying home when they're sick. In fact, caring about others even a tiny amount — valuing your own life as roughly equivalent to 100,000 strangers…
When emergencies take unexpected turns, the teams that communicate most explicitly tend to perform best — even if rigid protocols previously guided their actions, new research shows. A study published in Organization Science examined how firefighting teams adapt when disruptive…
When a fatal school shooting occurs in a US congressional district, pro-gun political action committees respond by flooding the affected race with campaign cash — and if the shooting happens close to Election Day, the spending surge is staggering, according…
Bilingual people use largely the same brain system to understand meaning in both their languages, but each language subtly reshapes how that system processes different categories of words, according to new research from UC Berkeley. The study, published Monday in…
Courts across Europe are increasingly ruling that landlords have no constitutional right to maximum profits from rental housing — a legal shift that a new academic paper argues represents a broader counter-movement against neoliberal property politics. The paper, published in…
A new academic study argues that the moral arguments used by both pro-development and anti-development advocates in Vancouver and Toronto's zoning battles are rooted in property logics that ultimately limit the scope of housing reform. The paper, published in the…
A device that essentially "smells" cancer in a drop of blood has demonstrated near-perfect accuracy in detecting ovarian cancer, according to new research published in Advanced Intelligent Systems . The electronic nose — a 32-sensor array that detects volatile organic…
People who make your life difficult may be doing more than ruining your day — they could be making you age faster at the molecular level. A new study from researchers at New York University, Utah State University, the University…
One of the oldest rules in physics — that accelerating an electric charge always produces radiation — turns out to have an exception. A team of physicists has shown that in quantum mechanics, it is possible to accelerate a charged…