When restricting capital movement, don't go it alone
When it comes to avoiding reputational costs of economic policy controls, there is safety in numbers.
Economics & Business
Jul 27, 2021
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University of California - Riverside
Leader effectiveness may depend on emotional expression
Women leaders must often battle sexist stereotypes that label them "too emotional" for effective leadership. A surprising new study shows that when they express calm, happy emotions, however, women are perceived as more effective ...
Social Sciences
Jul 27, 2021
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Why weren't New World rabbits domesticated? Archaeologists find the answer in rabbit social behavior
Domesticated rabbits come in all sizes and colors, including tiny Netherland Dwarfs, floppy-eared French lops, Flemish Giants, and fluffy Angoras.
Archaeology
Jul 21, 2021
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Modified yeast inhibits fungal growth in plants
About 70–80% of crop losses due to microbial diseases are caused by fungi. Fungicides are key weapons in agriculture's arsenal, but they pose environmental risks. Over time, fungi also develop a resistance to fungicides, ...
Biotechnology
Jul 15, 2021
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Media's framing of disease may lead to AAPI discrimination
Describing diseases as originating from animals foreign to the Western diet serves to boost stereotypes of Asian culture and increase discrimination, according to new research from UC Riverside, Texas Tech, and Texas A&M.
Social Sciences
Jul 14, 2021
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Better predicting how plants and animals will weather climate extremes
A team of scientists has devised a more accurate way to predict the effects of climate change on plants and animals—and whether some will survive at all.
Ecology
Jul 1, 2021
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14
Geckos might lose their tails, but not their dinner
A new UC Riverside study finds geckos are fierce hunters whether or not their tails are attached to their bodies.
Plants & Animals
Jun 23, 2021
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7
Study points to a seed black hole produced by a dark matter halo collapse
Supermassive black holes, or SMBHs, are black holes with masses that are several million to billion times the mass of our sun. The Milky Way hosts an SMBH with mass a few million times the solar mass. Surprisingly, astrophysical ...
Astronomy
Jun 16, 2021
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Is it feasible to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere?
Last week, the media reported that atmospheric carbon dioxide is at its highest levels in more than 4 million years. Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is one of the primary drivers of global warming. The dip in greenhouse ...
Environment
Jun 15, 2021
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14
Trions exhibit novel characteristics in moiré superlattices
When two similar atomic layers with mismatching lattice constants—the constant distance between a layer's unit cells—and/or orientation are stacked together, the resulting bilayer can exhibit a moiré pattern and form ...
Nanophysics
Jun 14, 2021
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