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Preliminary findings suggest that lower-quality public housing structures (with lower inspection scores) are more likely to be located in a FEMA flood zone and in areas with higher flood risk as defined by FEMA’s National Risk Index. They are also more likely to be home to higher percentages of people of color. Kelsea Best, assistant professor of Urban Climate Resilience and Adaptation Disparities in Ohio State University’s College of Engineering, will present the team’s research in December at the annual Society for Risk Analysis meeting in Austin, Texas.

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Cybersecurity researchers from the University of Trento and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and the global cybersecurity firm Trend Micro wondered what behaviors bring the greatest risk of malware infection: working at night, browsing adult content, gambling, having a lot of software installed or just visiting strange places?

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CLEVELAND (Dec. 9)—A cave in Galilee, Israel, has yielded evidence for ritualistic gathering 35,000 years ago, the earliest on the Asian continent. Case Western Reserve University and Israeli researchers published their findings today in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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Freshwater fish populations that dwell nearer the poles are outperforming their equatorial counterparts, researchers have found.

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Scientists across four continents worked together to create and analyze three-dimensional maps of tropical rainforests throughout the globe. What they found is worrying: three- quarters of rainforests worldwide are suffering from human intervention, endangering thousands of animal species and threatening delicate ecosystems that are crucial to human survival. 

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New research from the University of South Australia shows that adopting a healthy diet can reduce the severity of chronic pain, presenting an easy and accessible way for sufferers to better manage their condition.

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New research from Toronto Metropolitan University finds that the treatment of egg donors at private fertility clinics in Canada is contrary to the Canadian Medical Association’s Code of Ethics.

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Join us in the afternoons for this virtual, science-focused meeting on food research.

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Researchers at Baruch College and the University of Southern California (USC) surveyed more than 7,500 adults as part of the Understanding America Study – a probability-based Internet panel of individuals 18 and older. They will present their research at the December annual meeting of the Society for Risk Analysis in Austin, Texas.