Researchers analysing skeletal remains in the city of Cambridge find a dramatic increase in hallux valgus around the time that pointed shoes became de rigueur in the 1300s. They also uncover a link between this minor deformity and increased risk of fractures.
When nature vanishes, people of color and low-income Americans disproportionally lose critical environmental and health benefits including air quality, crop productivity and disease control a new study in Nature Communications finds.
The research is the first national study to explore the unequal impacts on American society by race and income of projected declines in nature and its benefits.
Researchers find multiple natural benefits will drop for people of color by an average of 224%-111% between 2020-2100, as white communities see gains.
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A new article examines Chile s defined contribution pension system, suggesting that the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic threatens its viability, undermines its financial foundation, and exposes its vulnerability to political risk. As Chile drafts a new constitution, debates about the efficiency and equity of the pension system continue. And actions taken as a result of the pandemic demonstrate that the pension system failed to live up to its original promise of ending political risk and preventing the diversion of pension funds, the authors argue.
The article, by Silvia Borzutzky, an academic at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), and Stephen J. Kay, the director of the Atlanta Fed s Americas Center, will appear in International Social Security Review, a journal of the International Social Security Association, later this year.
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High-speed internet access has gone from an amenity to a necessity for working and learning from home, and the COVID-19 pandemic has more clearly revealed the disadvantages for American households that lack a broadband connection.
To tackle this problem, Michigan State University researchers have developed a new tool to smooth the collection of federal broadband access data that helps pinpoint coverage gaps across the U.S. The research was published May 26 In the journal
PLOS ONE. Nearly 21% of students in urban areas are without at-home broadband, while 25% and 37% lack at-home broadband in suburban and rural areas, said Elizabeth A. Mack, associate professor in the Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences in the College of Social Science.
Every five years, the UNESCO Science Report provides an update of trends in science governance. Written by 70 authors from 52 countries, it aggregates data on spending, personnel, scientific publications and patents. The latest edition tracks progress towards the UN s 2030 Sustainable Development Goals and the rapid progress of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. It also tracks the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on global research and innovation.