Researchers have analyzed 153 court rulings that include descriptions of the victims' behavior prior to the rape.

The study was based on 2054 rape case rulings from Norwegian courts of appeal between 2013 and 2023 .

The findings showed defendants in cases where the victim is described in accordance with the IRMAS-SAFI questionnaire receive lighter sentences.

Rape myths suggest that certain behavior implies an invitation for sexual activity.

The NTNU study is the only quantitative Norwegian study that investigates—and shows—a correlation between rape myths and sentencing.

It highlights cases where the victim and the defendant are not aligned with the common perceptions we tend to have of them.

Not being believed in a rape case can make an already distressing process even harder for victims.

About two-thirds of teens say they have between one and four close friends.

About half of teens who have at least one close friend ( 49% ) say all of their friends are the same gender as them.

There are no major differences between teen boys and girls in the number of friends they have or the gender makeup of their circles.

Mice that received both doses of the COVID-19 vaccine in the same limb (ipsilateral) had a faster initial antibody response in the weeks after vaccination compared to those whose vaccines were administered in different limbs (contralateral) Both vaccination approaches resulted in similar antibody development or immunity levels.

Johns Hopkins University lays off more than 2,000 workers across the globe after losing $800 million in federal grants.

Among the programs targeted were a $50 million project to treat HIV while experimenting with machine learning in India and a $200 million grant to treat one of the world’s most deadly diseases in thousands of children.

"This is a difficult day for our entire community," the university says.

12 Hopkins staff on his team in Baltimore lost their jobs Thursday , many of whom worked as administrators, technicians and pharmacists.

SMART4TB was a $200 million investment trying to combat the spread of deadly tuberculosis.

Tuberculosis, a preventable and curable disease, killed 1.25 million people in 2023 , according to WHO .

One in five U.K. workers ( 6.64 million ) mainly work from home.

85% of disabled workers surveyed feel that access to remote and hybrid working is very important or essential.

One in three disabled workers ( 30% ) who are already working in a hybrid way want to spend more of their work time working at home.

The sdtudy calls on the government to increase the visibility of remote and hybrid working opportunities.

Strengthen disabled workers' ability to access remote work as a reasonable adjustment.

Reform the Department for Work and Pensions Access to Work service.

Overhaul the Disability Confident Scheme and align with the proposed Equality Bill .

Barbershops and salons are regarded in the Black community as safe, sacred spaces.

When those refuges are violated by gun violence, an unspoken bond is broken.

A 2020 study found that exposure to gun killings was linked to higher levels of depression, suicidal ideation.

In 2024 , there were about 20 shootings in the police district that includes Four Corners , five of them fatal.

Most of the victims were Black men, according to a KFF Health News analysis of Boston Police Department data.

Recovering from the trauma of witnessing gun violence is often more difficult for onlookers when they still live and work where the shootings happened.

IBM 's Christina Shim discussed the importance of communicating a sustainable project's business value.

"As long as the outcomes are the same, you just need to make sure that you're communicating in an appropriate way with the right stakeholder," she said.

A report from the Global Infrastructure Hub put the average project preparation time at 6 years but said it can take 14 years if the project is not planned properly.

The Loess plateau is an area spanning more than 245,000 sq miles across three provinces and parts of four others.

By 2016 , China had converted more than 11,500 sq miles of rain-fed cropland to forest or grassland a 25% increase in vegetative cover in a decade .

The climate around the Loess plateau is changing, which means what existed, or even thrived, several decades ago can’t necessarily be put back, says Bridgewater .

Bridgewater: “Given the speed of climate change, we need to be thinking about what we want. What we want out of our ecosystems are actually services.”.

The NISAR satellite will provide a powerful data stream that could help farmers in the U.S. and around the world.

The satellite will have the resolution to see small plots of farmland, but a potentially more meaningful benefit will come from its broad, frequent coverage of agricultural regions.

The high-resolution data on which crops are present and how well they are growing could feed into agricultural productivity forecasts.

"Resource managers thinking about food security and where resources need to go are going to be able to use this sort of data to have a holistic view of their whole region," said Rowena Lohman , an Earth sciences researcher at Cornell University in Ithaca , New York , and soil moisture lead on the NISAR science team. Provided by NASA .

BERLIN ( Reuters ) -The World Health Organisation (WHO) welcomed a declaration by Tanzania on the end of the deadly Marburg virus outbreak, saying on Thursday that close collaboration had been key to the response. "Close collaboration with national authorities and support by WHO and partners as well as the dedication of frontline teams were pivotal in rapidly scaling up the response to protect the population and halt the spread of the virus," said the WHO African Region on social media platform X. (Writing by Madeline Chambers , Editing by Friederike Heine ).