U.S. donors are inclined to give less generously to charities in developing countries when they believe those funds will help people with darker skin.
Economics & Business
Oct 20, 2020
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4
From the first rumblings of its spread, COVID-19's impact on women academics was immediate. In a sign of the gendered nature of the pandemic's impacts, men's research submissions to academic journals almost instantly increased ...
Education
Oct 6, 2020
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Environmental extremes driven by climate change create stresses in crops, and plant breeders are attempting to untangle the genetic factors that endow plants with tolerance to stress. A new study from Iowa State University ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 27, 2020
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28
A nuclear physics professor from Florida International University was among a team of researchers that proposed something so out of this world, colleagues first hesitated to accept it was possible.
General Physics
Aug 4, 2020
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137
More durable prosthetics and medical devices for patients and stronger parts for airplanes and automobiles are just some of the products that could be created through a new 3-D printing technology invented by a UMass Lowell ...
Materials Science
Aug 1, 2020
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Writing in the leading academic journal, Nature, Cranfield academics are calling for global resilience to be shaped around the 'Five Capitals'—natural, human, social, built and financial. The academics believe that too ...
Social Sciences
Jul 6, 2020
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About a year after she was appointed to a senior editorial role at an academic journal, psychology researcher Professor Simine Vazire was admonished for upsetting eminent researchers by "desk rejecting" their papers.
Other
Jun 30, 2020
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3
New research highlights how urban expansion is creating the conditions for infectious diseases to emerge and spread around the world by blurring the classical boundaries between city, suburb, and countryside.
Evolution
Apr 21, 2020
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People say they are more willing to approach cute-looking monkeys in the wild, but in reality end up getting closer to dominant monkeys they believe could pose more risk, according to new research.
Plants & Animals
Mar 9, 2020
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8
Academic journal rules are penalising citizen scientists and indigenous knowledge, say US and Australian scientists.
Other
Dec 3, 2019
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