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Wildfires emit more greenhouse gases than assumed in state climate targets
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- Written by Sarah Yang
Berkeley, California - A new study quantifying the amount of carbon stored and released through California forests and wildlands finds that wildfires and deforestation are contributing more than expected to the state’s greenhouse gas emissions.
Poverty-level wages cost U.S. taxpayers $153 billion every year
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- Written by UC Berkeley
Berkeley, California - While the U.S. economy rebounds, persistent low wages are costing taxpayers approximately $153 billion every year in public support to working families, including $25 billion at the state level, according to a new report from the University of California, Berkeley, Center for Labor Research and Education. The report details for the first time the state-by-state cost to taxpayers of low wages in the United States.
Study links brain anatomy, academic achievement, and family income
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- Written by Anne Trafton
Cambridge, Massachusetts - Many years of research have shown that for students from lower-income families, standardized test scores and other measures of academic success tend to lag behind those of wealthier students.
Patents forecast technological change
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- Written by MIT
Cambridge, Massachusetts - How fast is online learning evolving? Are wind turbines a promising investment? And how long before a cheap hoverboard makes it to market?
Recruiting the entire immune system to attack cancer
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- Written by Anne Trafton
Cambridge, Massachusetts - The human immune system is poised to spring into action at the first sign of a foreign invader, but it often fails to eliminate tumors that arise from the body’s own cells. Cancer biologists hope to harness that untapped power using an approach known as cancer immunotherapy.
Graphics in reverse
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- Written by Larry Hardesty
Cambridge, Massachusetts - Most recent advances in artificial intelligence - such as mobile apps that convert speech to text - are the result of machine learning, in which computers are turned loose on huge data sets to look for patterns.
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