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How new words arise in social media

The more centrally connected someone is within their social media network, the more likely that new words they use will become adopted into mainstream language, according to a new study published in PLOS Complex Systems by ...

Simulation study explores how gift giving drives social change

New findings provide quantitative criteria for classifying social organizations in human history, together with potential explanatory variables that can be empirically measured for anthropology, history and archaeology, according ...

People in financial distress behave more morally, says study

A new study conducted at Reichman University, in collaboration with Aarhus University in Denmark, challenges the negative stereotypes associated with individuals facing economic hardship. The study, led by Prof. Guy Hochman ...

Mathematicians model a puzzling breakdown in cooperative behavior

Darwin was puzzled by cooperation in nature—it ran directly against natural selection and the notion of survival of the fittest. But over the past decades, evolutionary mathematicians have used game theory to better understand ...

When is a good time for a child to start music lessons?

There are many reasons a child should learn a musical instrument. Not only does it give them the opportunity to make music, a significant body of research points to benefits for cognitive and academic achievement.

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Researchers call for more tailored approach to dealing with different types of sex offenders
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Combining tech and tradition to revive Europe's endangered languages
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SpaceX Polaris Dawn mission set to launch early Friday
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Preventing cell damage: Working principle of proton-activated chloride channels revealed
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Drosophila study discovers mechanism that could control longevity, cancer cell production
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The world's fastest single-shot 2D imaging technique films ultrafast dynamics in flames
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Bioengineers develop protein assembly road map for nature-derived nanobubbles
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Research shows 50-year generation gap in the bigmouth buffalo, Minnesota's longest-lived fish
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New cataclysmic variable system discovered
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New method sheds light on the hidden world of solvation shells
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New knowledge about a fungus that turns 60–80% of the flies in your home into zombies
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Cold-atom simulator demonstrates quantum entanglement between electronic and motional states
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What do we lose when our old suburbs disappear?

I live on the edge of Parramatta, Australia's fastest-growing city, on the kind of old-fashioned suburban street that has 1950s fibros constructed in the post-war housing boom, double-story brick homes with Greek columns ...

Archaeologists unearth top half of statue of Ramesses II

A team co-led by a CU Boulder classics researcher has unearthed the upper portion of a huge, ancient pharaonic statue whose lower half was discovered in 1930; Ramesses II was immortalized in Percy Bysshe Shelly's "Ozymandias."

How much trust do people have in different types of scientists?

Understanding why some people trust some scientists more than others is a key factor in solving social problems with science. But little was known about the trust levels across the diverse range of scientific fields and perspectives.