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| August 14, 2020 |
Dear Reader,
Here's a look at what's featured in our roundup of top stories today: - With 2020 more than halfway over, it is likely that this year will rank among the hottest in recorded history and possibly break the all-time record set in 2016.
- Scientists say light pollution can reach the seafloor near coastal cities. Researchers in Plymouth, England, found that as much as three quarters of the seabed in the Plymouth Sound and Tamar Estuary is bathed in artificial light that is bright enough to impact the ecosystem.
- We spend a substantial part of our days visually scanning an area for something we want—our keys or ketchup, for example. A study shows that an object's intrinsic physical properties—things we know from experience but cannot see, such as hardness—can help us locate it faster.
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| Behavior & Society How to Study Racial Disparities To understand the causes of unequal treatment, researchers need to be sensitive to the statistical, conceptual and historical complexities associated with race | | By Bryan Schonfeld,Sam Winter-Levy | | | |
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