Most people know that each time the fictional character Pinocchio lied, his nose would grow. While a growing nose makes for a fun children's story, a UBC Okanagan researcher says it's hard to know when someone is lying, and ...
Social Sciences
Aug 21, 2025
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A new study co-written by a team of University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign experts who study workplace sexual harassment finds that men and women often respond differently when they witness sexual harassment in the workplace.
Social Sciences
Aug 21, 2025
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Traditional fast-fashion companies such as Zara and H&M rely on quick production cycles to keep up with consumer demand. A new business model supercharging that approach, called "ultra-fresh fashion," offers clothing collections ...
Economics & Business
Aug 21, 2025
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A friend offhandedly told me recently, "It's so easy to get my daughter to behave after her birthday—there are so many new toys to take away when she's bad!"
Social Sciences
Aug 21, 2025
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The recent publication of the University of Edinburgh's Review of Race and History has drawn attention to its "skull room": a collection of 1,500 human craniums procured for study in the 19th century.
Archaeology
Aug 21, 2025
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The first time I saw the Ada Tree, I felt tiny. It was October 2015, just days after arriving in Victoria to study mountain ash forests. During a visit to the Central Highlands, we went to see the Ada Tree—one of the largest ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 21, 2025
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On Sept. 11, 2022, engineers at a flight control center in Turin, Italy, sent a radio signal into deep space. Its destination was NASA's DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) spacecraft flying toward an asteroid more than ...
Space Exploration
Aug 21, 2025
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Rising global temperatures affect human activity in many ways. Now, a new study illuminates an important dimension of the problem: very hot days are associated with more negative moods, as shown by a large-scale look at social ...
Environment
Aug 21, 2025
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Lib4RI has completed the digitization of more than 700 historical snow and avalanche reports from the WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF. These reports, published between 1938 and 2005, document decades of ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 21, 2025
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Multilingual scholars can benefit from reflecting on their own experience, a Northeastern University researcher concludes.
Education
Aug 21, 2025
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