By analyzing the data from the DESI Legacy Imaging Survey, Chinese astronomers have investigated a globular cluster known as NGC 5634. Results of the new study, published June 5 on the arXiv pre-print server, provide more insights into the structural and kinematical properties of this cluster.
Structural and kinematical properties of globular cluster NGC 5634 challenge its Sagittarius origins
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Many of us have become immersed in debates with family about a contentious political issue, or found ourselves on the other side of a political divide than our friends. In these contentious times, it can [...]
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When news sources aligned to a particular business or political ideology choose to share misinformation, it can trigger an “arms race” where their rivals start sharing their own misinformation to compete, according to an international [...]
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The food industry will go to great lengths (and spend a fortune) to lobby policymakers, confuse the public and politicize scientific findings. You can see the results in the UK’s delay of a ban on [...]
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A new report from UC Berkeley Law’s student-led Homelessness Service Project (HSP), available on the SSRN preprint server, analyzes the impact of a crackdown on California’s unhoused population since the U.S. Supreme Court’s Grants Pass [...]
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Louise Casey’s recent report on grooming gangs and child sexual exploitation in the UK lays bare institutional failings. It highlights that, at present, victims cannot rely upon the criminal justice system—and that it has badly [...]
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In November 2021, in the city of Chandler, Arizona, Chris Pelkey was shot and killed by Gabriel Horcasitas in a road rage altercation.This post was originally published on this site
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Can artificial delegates—autonomous agents that make decisions on our behalf—help us reach better outcomes in situations where collective failure looms, such as climate change policymaking or the urgent response required during pandemics?This post was originally [...]
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New research from the Oxford Internet Institute at Oxford University, in partnership with researchers at Panthéon-Sorbonne and the MIT Sloan School of Management, reveals partisan differences in which posts get flagged as misleading by the [...]
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ChatGPT was released to the public in late 2022, and the promise and perils of artificial intelligence (AI) have loomed large in the public consciousness ever since. Because perceptions of a new technology like AI [...]
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New York City’s mayoral election has become the race to watch because of its surprisingly competitive nature but also the electoral system that’s helped it become so competitive: ranked choice voting.This post was originally published [...]
