Why our brains miss opportunities to improve through subtraction
If, as the saying goes, less is more, why do we humans overdo so much?
Social Sciences
Apr 7, 2021
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University of Virginia
Astronomer publishes survey of young stars
An international research group led by a postdoctoral fellow in the University of Virginia's Department of Astronomy identified a rich organic chemistry in young disks surrounding 50 newly formed stars.
Astronomy
Apr 5, 2021
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Researchers help keep pace with Moore's Law by exploring a new material class
Progress in the field of integrated circuits is measured by matching, exceeding, or falling behind the rate set forth by Gordon Moore, former CEO and co-founder of Intel, who said the number of electronic components, or transistors, ...
Materials Science
Mar 18, 2021
2
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New brain sensor offers answers about Alzheimer's
Scientists at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have developed a tool to monitor communications within the brain in a way never before possible, and it has already offered an explanation for why Alzheimer's drugs ...
Bio & Medicine
Mar 9, 2021
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Measuring COVID learning loss
Parents, educators and policymakers have faced rising concerns about what students have lost academically during a year of school closures and online learning. Until recently, however, they've lacked concrete evidence about ...
Education
Feb 18, 2021
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A warp in the Milky Way linked to galactic collision
When most of us picture the shape of the Milky Way, the galaxy that contains our own sun and hundreds of billions of other stars, we think of a central mass surrounded by a flat disc of stars that spiral around it. However, ...
Astronomy
Feb 5, 2021
8
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To predict the future of polar ice, environmental scientists are looking to the past
Over the past century, global sea level has been rising at an increasingly rapid pace. That means the damage done by storm surges will be more severe, coastal erosion will accelerate and flooding will become more frequent ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 18, 2021
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How COVID-19 has changed what we watch and how we watch it
University of Virginia Darden School of Business professor Anthony Palomba is an expert in media management, an interdisciplinary academic discipline that examines how audiences consume media and entertainment products and ...
Social Sciences
Jan 18, 2021
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Researchers shed light on rewards of 'credential stacking'
The impact of "credential stacking" among community college students had long been of interest to Ben Castleman and Katharine Meyer, but they became even more curious about it during the pandemic.
Economics & Business
Dec 8, 2020
0
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How politics drive our personal relationships – and even where we live
The 2020 presidential election again laid bare the divisions that separate people in the United States. While President-elect Joe Biden won 306 electoral votes to President Donald Trump's 232, and more than 80 million popular ...
Social Sciences
Dec 1, 2020
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