Studies have shown women are more risk-averse than men, more likely to opt for the smaller sure thing than gamble on an all-or-nothing proposition, a trait experts say could help to explain the persistent wage gap between ...
Social Sciences
Mar 18, 2019
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About a decade ago while researching the practice of empowered refusal, Vanessa Patrick spotted something: When it comes to turning down requests for their time, energy or money, people can be surprisingly inept.
Social Sciences
Jun 1, 2023
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The day when an ovarian cancer patient can treat her tumor with a single, painless pill instead of a toxic drug cocktail is the ultimate goal of the pioneering research of a University of Houston (UH) scientist.
Biochemistry
Dec 21, 2010
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Both the medium and the message are STEM—encouraging fourth and fifth-grade African-American and Latino boys to embrace the cool factor of science, technology, engineering and mathematics through hands-on engineering activities ...
Social Sciences
Mar 26, 2018
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It's political season and there's one thing you're sure to hear a lot about from candidates vying for support—religion. Talking directly or subtly about religion has become part of the American way in political campaigns.
Social Sciences
Jan 5, 2016
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Jiming Bao, professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Houston, has developed a new fluid that can be cut open by light and demonstrated macroscopic depression of ferrofluid, the kind of fluid ...
Condensed Matter
Nov 29, 2021
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Three years after his discovery of porous gold nanoparticles—gold nanoparticles that offer a larger surface area because of their porous nature—a University of Houston researcher is continuing to explore the science and ...
Nanophysics
Jul 1, 2016
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The discovery of a small molecule in the research lab of Bradley McConnell, professor of pharmacology at the University of Houston College of Pharmacy, may well be the genesis of new medication which could shorten the course ...
Biochemistry
Mar 28, 2023
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It seems fuel economy is on everyone's minds these days.
Energy & Green Tech
Sep 12, 2011
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Most forecasts about the future of higher education have focused on how the institutions themselves will be affected – including the possibility of less demand for classes on campus and fewer tenured faculty members as ...
Social Sciences
Sep 2, 2014
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