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A cave painting in the Indonesian island of Sulawesi is possibly the oldest depiction of the animal world.

Made with a red mineral pigment, researchers estimate the painting to be atleast 45,500 years old. It shows images of the Sulawesi warty pig, a small short-legged wild boar, native to Sulawesi...

http://researchstoryteller.com/espressoknowledge/cavepaintingindonesia

Preprints are free online scientific studies that are inconclusive or unverified. Researchers find them useful to get feedback quickly.

Covering preprints is okay as long as one mentions that the work is tentative.

Researchers analyzed over 450 media stories that covered preprints - only about half accurately portrayed them as being unverified research...

http://researchstoryteller.com/espressoknowledge/preprintsmedia

Researchers have found evidence of globalization in food stuck between human teeth from almost 4000 years ago.

The study shows that globalization is not a modern phenomenon, and people have been trading goods and food across continents for millennia...

http://researchstoryteller.com/espressoknowledge/globalizationandfoodhistory

Researchers unveiled a bleak picture about the treatment of students with disabilities in Manitoba.

A summer 2019 anonymous online survey online of their parents shows that schools need to be more inclusive for students with disabilities...

http://researchstoryteller.com/espressoknowledge/studentsdisabilitiesmanitoba

A new tool reduces the risk of eagles colliding with wind turbines, while help build wind farms sustainably in South Africa.

Between 2015 and 2019, almost 20 eagles have died colliding with fast-moving blades of wind turbines.

South Africa's growing number of wind farms are reducing carbon emissions and ensuring consistent power supply, but are harming eagles...

http://researchstoryteller.com/espressoknowledge/eagleswindfarms

Researchers found that emotionally charged headlines significantly influence how we process information and judge others, even when we are unsure about the credibility of the news source. The study highlights the need to further explore the consequences of reading emotionally charged news...

http://researchstoryteller.com/espressoknowledge/emotiontrumpscredibility

A new study forecasts a lengthy global recession due to COVID19. Atleast 80% of advanced nations including US and UK will see deep, long-lasting economic effects. China and others in East Asia may fare better given their manufacturing bases...

http://researchstoryteller.com/espressoknowledge/covid19slowseconomicgrowth

The age of the oldest child is often a key reason that helps decide if immigrant families will be more likely to move or stay put. Families are unwilling to interfere with their children's high-school attendance. Canada must consider this important factor as it finds better ways to recruit and retain immigrants...

http://researchstoryteller.com/espressoknowledge/oldestchildcanadaimmigrant

Two recent studies hope that youth football academies change for the better. By doing do, they can better help athletes who have not made it to teams deal with life after sports...

http://researchstoryteller.com/espressoknowledge/footballyouthacademy

Surfing, skateboarding, and karate will be new sports in Tokyo 2021Olympics. The 2024 Paris Olympics will include the hip-hop dance form breakdancing. Sports have always been added to or dropped from the Olympics. - golf and rugby, for example, were part of the Olympics in the 1900s, then dropped for decades, before being added back in. The reason for some of these changes traces to the International Olympic Committee's 2014 policy...

http://researchstoryteller.com/espressoknowledge/olympicsbreakdancing