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How does adding more minority and women judges affect theadministration of justice? Using a Tobit regression model andcontrolling for such factors as the sentence recommended by thePennsylvania sentencing guidelines showed that black judges handeddown longer incarceration sentences than white judges and that,although white judges did not tend to sentence black offenders anymore severely than they did white offenders, black judges did tendto sentence black offenders to longer prison terms than wh...

Today's stories include Black Holes Create Mysterious Vortex ‘Structures’ That Could Open ‘Portals’ Into Dark Matter to The most extreme objects in the universe to Did magnetism shape the Universe, and much more.

The moon of Jupiter could have shallow water pockets within its frozen surface

Superheated plasma reached 126 million degrees Fahrenheit for 17 minutes

Ryugu is a carbonaceous, water-rich space rock with a unique, dark coloration and porous composition

Apr 28, 2021 11:58 PM EDT When studying ancient DNA, researchers typically use teeth or bones found in fossils. However, while fossils are useful, they only include a snapshot of an individuals DNA within a genus, not the genetics of the whole population, according to Caroline Delbert of Popular Mechanics. (Photo : Brett Sayles) A research team has sequenced the complete genomes of two ancient bears using only urine and feces contained in soil samples from the Chiquihuite Cave in Northern Mexic...