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A novel contract could help alleviate key sources of conflict between restaurants and food-delivery platforms.

Researchers interviewed California shellfish growers to find out how they perceive ocean acidification, and to learn what strategies they think will help their operations adapt to changing environmental conditions.

Most research looking at the impact of climate change on human life has focused on how extreme weather events affect economic and societal health outcomes on a broad scale. Yet climate change may also have a strong influence on fundamental daily human activities -- including a host of behavioral, psychological, and physiological outcomes that are essential to wellbeing. Investigators now report that increasing ambient temperatures negatively impact human sleep around the globe.

Researchers take inspiration from Wikipedia for a new approach to improve the process for establishing medical guidelines. Using osteomyelitis as a test case, more than 60 contributors established guidelines for management of the condition. Researchers say the 'Wikiguideline' is more transparent, evidence-based and consensus-driven than traditional frameworks for developing clinical practice guidelines.

Researchers looked at the effects of narcissism on whether people were more or less likely to wear a mask in public or get vaccinated against COVID-19 and found a person's individual level of narcissism affects whether they are more, or less, willing to participate in these efforts.

Two researchers are warning against national strategies for a 'new normal' of life with COVID-19, because they focus too much on the SARS-CoV-2 virus and too little on the context in which the virus' impact is most burdensome -- the synergistic endemic, or syndemic, of COVID-19 and the chronic disease crisis.

Within a social setting most people significantly overestimate the presence of a minority -- and this overestimation is made not only by the majority but also by the minority themselves, researchers have found. Moreover, they found that this illusion is likely to hamper attempts to build a more equitable society, as it leads to less support for policies aimed at promoting diversity