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Dads want to work from home, but fear career penalties‎

Working from home could improve family well-being, gender equality, fertility and staff retention, but only if fathers can use it without stigma or career penalties, new research from King's College London finds. The researchers analyzed data from the Survey of Working Arrangements and Attitudes UK (SWAA-UK), Understanding Society and the Labor Force Survey. For return-to-office analysis in SWAA-UK, this included responses from 8,123 full-time working fathers (35+ hours per week) collected in June 2025.

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Camouflaging snails change color in the rain‎

How does a stripy tree snail hide from hungry birds? The Hypselostyla camelopardalis from the Philippines and Reinia variegata from Japan have both evolved a form of dynamic camouflage to survive. Their light-colored patterns vanish in the rain, and the shell turns dark brown, similar to damp tree bark.

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Rice grown on the moon? Air-to-fertilizer technology helps rice grow in lunar soil simulant‎

Securing sustainable food supplies is a key challenge for long-term human exploration and potential habitation of the moon. The moon's soil contains no organic material, and essential plant nitrogen sources like ammonia and nitrate are virtually nonexistent.

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Women hold just 3% of jobs in tourism's biggest transport sector, global study finds‎

Women remain vastly underrepresented in tourism transport jobs worldwide, making up just 3% of land passenger transport workers (such as bus and train staff) in countries with available data, according to a University of Surrey-led report.

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Open cluster NGC 6134 in Norma is 1.38 billion years old and hosts a core, tidal tail and diffuse halo‎

Indonesian astronomers have conducted a comprehensive study of an open cluster in the constellation Norma, known as NGC 6134. Results of the new study, available in a research paper published June 23 on the preprint server arXiv, deliver important insights into the properties and nature of this cluster.

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Linguistic reason Barbie's iconic speech became a cultural moment, and what Aristotle has to do with it‎

Everyone remembers where they were when Gloria lost it. The Barbie movie's big speech—America Ferrera, voice breaking, listing every single impossible thing the world expects women to be—hit something that felt almost too real for a film about a plastic doll.

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New study of 2 million online posts shows persistent anti‑Jew and anti‑Muslim hate in Australia‎

Australia has spent much of the past two years responding to anti-Jewish and anti-Muslim hate as separate problems. But our latest research suggests they have something important in common.

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Isolation as a form of discipline: How should schools manage poor student behavior?‎

Last week, a group of parents strongly criticized prestigious Victorian private school Geelong Grammar for using isolation as a form of discipline during a yearlong boarding school program. The disciplinary action was taken after a group of Year 9 students sneaked away to a nearby pub at night. As a result, some of the students were internally suspended for five days.

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By 2050, many Sydney apartments built to today's standards could be too hot for weeks at a time‎

Sydney is no stranger to extreme heat. In January 2020, Penrith in western Sydney reached 48.9°C, the highest temperature ever recorded in Greater Sydney.

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Study investigates stress, coping among adult siblings of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities‎

Assistant professor of practice, psychology and human development, and VKC member Jessika Boles, Ph.D., and colleagues have published results of a research study detailing the complex lived experiences of adult siblings of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) in the journal Research in Developmental Disabilities.

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