Public research university in Lawrence, Kansas, with faculty conducting studies across fields including journalism, genetics, and economics.
University of Kansas researchers report more than 80,000 specimens from an Alaskan ridge occupied 13,800 to 12,700 years ago. Three dated components allow a comparison across 1,100 years, if finds are reported component by component.
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University of Kansas researchers found that about 30 Uintatherium anceps skulls lack the clear two-group split expected if the sexes differed sharply. Run on known-sex bison, the same tests split the sexes almost perfectly, so the long-cited fossil contrast looks overstated.
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Bethany Potter's University of Kansas team argues the evidence best fits people reaching the Americas 14,000 to 20,000 years ago. The paper reweighs published genetic, archaeological and climate evidence in a debate that still has no conclusive proof.
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Kansas researchers say genetic evidence puts the arrival of today's Indigenous peoples' ancestors in the Americas no earlier than 21,000 years ago. That bound weighs against entry before the ice age's coldest peak, though the authors say gaps in sampling leave room for earlier groups.
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University of Kansas researchers found colonizers recorded 85.7% of the primary sources in 46 sets of open online materials used to teach imperialism. Teachers increasingly rely on such materials because many districts cannot afford or access print textbooks.
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The BMJ study's range runs from 24.5% to 97.7% because 1,374 of those brains were never examined. That width reflects who donates, not how common the disease is.
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The GAO values unpaid household work at up to $6 trillion a year, a fifth of GDP. The BEA series that counts it grew 6.1% a year from 1965 through 2020, against 6.3% for headline GDP, and that gap compounds to about 11%.
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ALICE turned near-miss lead collisions into a photon beam and scanned momentum transfer down to a resolution of 0.2 femtometers, about a quarter of a proton. The drop in J/psi production it found there was not expected.
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Two University of Kansas surveys move a Western research staple to India. Media literacy was the strongest predictor of institutional trust, and it did not predict civic engagement at all.
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