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People have information on how they’ll vote, but also about how others in their community may vote. AP Photo/Wong Maye-E

November 18, 2020

Election polls are more accurate if they ask participants how others will vote

Mirta Galesic, University of Potsdam and Wändi Bruine de Bruin, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

People know a lot about their friends and neighbors – and pollsters can learn from that information, if they ask.

London’s sprouting: how plans for 230 new skyscrapers could affect the skyline. HayesDavidson

September 3, 2015

Architecture’s brief love affair with psychology is overdue a revival

Carlos Galan-Diaz, University of Aberdeen and Dörte Martens, University of Potsdam

There was a time in the 1970s when the world of building design was taking psychological research findings seriously. It’s high time it started paying attention again.

Lake Eyre: pretty dry today, but before 50,000 years ago it was an inland sea teeming with life. Matt Malone/Wikimedia Commons

February 25, 2015

Drying inland seas probably helped kill Australia’s megafauna

Tim Cohen, University of Wollongong; Gerald Nanson, University of Wollongong; John Jansen, University of Potsdam, and Joshua Larsen, The University of Queensland

Huge beasts roamed Australia before suddenly dying out around 50,000 years ago. New research shows that at this time, vast inland lakes dried up, potentially explaining the megafauna’s demise.

Famous bones. AAP/University of Leicester

February 11, 2014

Scientists to sequence Richard III’s genome

Jo Adetunji, The Conversation

Genomes from the 500-year-old remains of King Richard III and a direct living descendant are to be sequenced by scientists, which could reveal more about the life of the last king to be killed in battle…

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Election polls are more accurate if they ask participants how others will vote

Architecture’s brief love affair with psychology is overdue a revival

Drying inland seas probably helped kill Australia’s megafauna

Scientists to sequence Richard III’s genome

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