https://phys.org/ en-us Phys.org internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. Super-spy James Bond is a prime example of 'regressive nostalgia', highlighting how certain consumer groups cling to idealized past versions of brands and resist attempts to move with the times, a new study reveals. https://phys.org/news/2024-10-chill-bond-regressive-nostalgia-brand.html Economics & Business Thu, 17 Oct 2024 10:39:38 EDT news648380373 In Spain, 11% of women over the age of 16 have experienced physical violence by their partner or ex-partner at some point in their lives. Sexual violence has been suffered by 8.9%, and 31.9% have reported being subjected to psychological violence. An overwhelming percentage of these women (more than 80% in all three categories) say that the episodes happened more than once. https://phys.org/news/2023-04-female-victims-gender-violence-justice.html Social Sciences Thu, 27 Apr 2023 17:16:05 EDT news601834561 For centuries, society has scorned bogs, fens and swamps—collectively known as peatlands—treating them as wastelands available to be drained and developed without realizing they're important buffers against climate-changing carbon emissions. https://phys.org/news/2023-04-human-fueling-wildfires-essential-carbon-sequestering.html Earth Sciences Fri, 21 Apr 2023 11:32:04 EDT news601295522 The majority of the 500 largest businesses in the world are neglecting their human rights responsibilities, new international research has found. https://phys.org/news/2022-11-world-largest-companies-neglecting-human.html Social Sciences Tue, 08 Nov 2022 11:49:03 EST news587130541 One of the consequences of the current coronavirus pandemic is that it has brought us face-to-face with our own mortality. Not only are we vulnerable to disease, but we can also share diseases with other animals. https://phys.org/news/2021-01-ways-view-animals.html Plants & Animals Wed, 06 Jan 2021 09:03:22 EST news529146201 Researchers from Erasmus University Rotterdam and IESE Business School published a new paper in the Journal of Marketing that empirically demonstrates the effects of collective layoff announcements on sales, advertising effectiveness, and consumers' price sensitivity. https://phys.org/news/2020-04-commercial-consequences-layoffs.html Economics & Business Thu, 30 Apr 2020 03:24:18 EDT news507435854 To dress is a unique human experience, but practices and meanings of dress are as different as the people populating the world. In a Western cultural tradition, the practice of dressing "properly" has for centuries distinguished "civilised" people from "savages" . https://phys.org/news/2019-03-debunking-colonial-myth-naked-bushman.html Archaeology Mon, 04 Mar 2019 10:20:04 EST news470916743 Students from the Department of Politics and International Relations have carried out a survey which found people are more sympathetic to Syrians settling in the UK when they are referred to as 'refugees' rather than 'migrants'. https://phys.org/news/2016-02-inflammatory-language-immigration-negatively-affects.html Social Sciences Mon, 01 Feb 2016 08:40:02 EST news373537176 Views and opinions can now be filtered out of very large volumes of online text with greater accuracy than ever before. Thanks to an automatic method developed at MODUL University Vienna, ambiguous terms in online content can now be identified and correctly interpreted. The internationally acknowledged technology recognises correlations between the meaning of words and the specific context of the analysed text snippet. The technology is applicable to a wide range of Internet sources and therefore superior to other methods which must first be "trained" for use in a specific domain. https://phys.org/news/2013-08-iq-boost-web-intelligence.html Computer Sciences Thu, 08 Aug 2013 10:59:29 EDT news295178242 The word "money" triggers a slew of negative connotations, often including corruption, greed, power, and, most dramatically, the "root of all evil." But while we often associate money and vice, can the mere allusion to it make a person more likely to act or even intend to act unethically? According to a recent set of four studies conducted by researchers at the University of Utah's David Eccles School of Business, the answer is yes. https://phys.org/news/2013-06-money-cues-trigger-unethical-behavior.html Economics & Business Fri, 21 Jun 2013 06:58:17 EDT news291016616 (Phys.org) -- Andrew Barron and Mark Brown of Macquarie University, Sydney and Royal Holloway University of London, respectively, have a bone to pick with those who resort to tabloid sensationalism when creating headlines and indeed entire articles when writing for science journals and magazines, as they attempt to describe the sexual behavior of animals. In their commentary piece published in the journal Nature, they say that the media too often resorts to ascribing human sexuality terms to animals especially regarding atypical sexual relationships which can in some cases have negative connotations. https://phys.org/news/2012-08-biologists-journalists-task-sensationalizing-animal.html Plants & Animals Thu, 09 Aug 2012 09:40:01 EDT news263720443 While nepotism may have negative connotations in politics and the workplace, being surrounded by your relatives does lead to better group dynamics and more cooperation in some animals. That certainly seems to be the case for spiders, according to a new study published in the open access journal BMC Evolutionary Biology. https://phys.org/news/2009-10-nepotism-benefits-survival.html Plants & Animals Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:07:05 EDT news175806397