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William Stein, associate professor of biological sciences at Binghamton University, and colleagues at the New York State Museum in Albany, NY, and Cardiff University in the United Kingdom, have found new evidence related to the Earth's earliest forests, putting to rest some speculation as to what trees might have looked like millions of years ago.
While U.S students continue to lag behind many countries academically, national statistics show that teachers have responded by assigning more homework. But according to a joint study by researchers at Binghamton University and the University of Nevada, when it comes to math, piling on the homework may not work for all students.
Cities in Africa and Asia are creating a new template for urban development, says Binghamton University Sociologist Martin J. Murray. Though some may see them as backward, these are the cities of the future, he argues, with an entrepreneurial spirit and ever-shrinking public spaces.
Torture and political imprisonment are on the rise in many other countries around the world and the United States is setting the example, says a new report by human rights experts at Binghamton University and the University of Memphis.
It's impossible to understand the history of anti-Semitism, or of capitalism, without taking a non-ideological look at political theories on Jewish economics. That's the view of Jonathan Karp, a faculty member at Binghamton University and author of a new book, The Politics of Jewish Commerce: Economic Thought and Emancipation in Europe, 1638-1848.
Peer victimization during middle and high school may be an important indicator of an individual's sexual behavior later in life, reports Binghamton University researchers. According to Gallup, peer aggression and victimization during adolescence is a form of competition for reproductive opportunities. Female college students who were frequently victimized during middle and high school reported having sex at earlier ages and more sexual partners than their peers, while males reported just the opposite.
One day in the not-too-distant future, you'll be able to type a query into an online search engine and have it deliver not Web pages that may contain an answer, but just the answer itself, says Weiyi Meng, a professor of computer science at Binghamton University, State University of New York.
Sixteen million people have died in civil wars in the past 50 years. As the single most destabilizing force in world politics today, the only greater tragedy than civil wars is the suffering that pushes individuals into them. And understanding why any one person would take up arms against his government offers clues to why countries resort to civil war and how it can be stopped.
The fight to keep evolution in the public school curriculum is well known. But a quieter fight is being waged on college campuses, where evolution is taught primarily as a biological topic and avoided in human social sciences and humanities. That is now changing, thanks to a course and multicourse curriculum developed at Binghamton University, State University of New York.
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