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Led by Maurizio Porfiri, NYU Tandon Institute Professor and Director of the Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP), a team of researchers collected and analyzed data from 189 mass shootings between 1966 and 2021, and found that fame seekers - as opposed to those predominantly motivated by personal grievance or revenge, for example – planned their crimes around the novelty of the location and targets.
Researchers found that samples from beehives could reveal important environmental differences between cities, and even neighborhoods.
Exposure to diverse microbes is important for heath, but how can we measure it? In urban environments, bees might have the microbiome answer.
The researchers found some unexpected materials in the hives, alongside less surprising results.
A small study on honeybee hives in Tokyo, Venice, Sydney, and Melbourne uncovered a many microbial secrets in the hives' debris.