03/11/2025

Good management of aid projects reduces local violence

Good management of aid projects in developing countries reduces violence in those areas—but poorly managed projects increase the chances of local violence, according to a new study by an MIT economist.

Dark matter does not defy gravity, study suggests

Does dark matter follow the same laws as ordinary matter? The mystery of this invisible and hypothetical component of our universe—which neither emits nor reflects light—remains unsolved. A team involving members from the ...

Bacteria borrow jumbo phages to spread their own defenses

A team from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology has discovered a new class of bacterial mobile genetic elements that use giant viruses—known as jumbo phages—to move between cells. The work, published in the ...

Nice tone! What an exclamation point does for a text

Smeal College of Business, Pennsylvania State University, and University of Southern California report that exclamation point use is widely read as feminine and shapes impressions of warmth, enthusiasm, power, and analytical ...

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