Tag: Significant Figures
Less than 2% of all US giving supports women’s and girls’ charities
Tessa Skidmore, IUPUI; Jacqueline Ackerman, IUPUI, and Jon Bergdoll, IUPUI
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The #MeToo movement gained traction in late 2017 and continued to grow the following...
How many lives have coronavirus vaccines saved? We used state data...
Sumedha Gupta, IUPUI
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More than 200 million U.S. residents have gotten at least...
How many satellites are orbiting Earth?
Supriya Chakrabarti, University of Massachusetts Lowell
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It seems like every week, another rocket...
Far more adults don’t want children than previously thought
Jennifer Watling Neal, Michigan State University and Zachary Neal, Michigan State University
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Fertility...
Tour de France: How many calories will the winner burn?
John Eric Goff, University of Lynchburg
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Imagine you begin pedaling from the start of Stage...
Alcohol companies make $17.5 billion a year off of underage drinking,...
David H. Jernigan, Boston University
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Alcohol is still the most commonly used drug among high...
The typical child care worker in the US earns less than...
Melissa M. Jozwiak, Texas A&M-San Antonio and Carl Sheperis, Texas A&M-San Antonio
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The...
82% of Americans want paid maternity leave – making it as...
Chris Knoester, The Ohio State University and Richard J. Petts, Ball State University
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EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
