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Social Sciences 49 minutes ago

Venting your frustrations can make friends like you better—if you do it right

Venting about your frustrations with one friend to another isn't necessarily cathartic, but it can make the friend you're talking to like and treat you better, UCLA psychologists say. Their experiments show that under certain ...

Analytical Chemistry 1 hour ago

Lewis-base ligand optimized electrolyte composition enhances CO₂ electrolysis performance

The electrode-electrolyte interface where electrocatalytic reactions occur, buried between solid-catalysts and electrolytes, involves complicated processes of electron transfer and mass diffusion under an applied electric ...

Social Sciences 1 hour ago

Every reaction can help: Increasing the sense of responsibility of internet users

Certain messages can drive internet users to take action in the face of cyberbullying, although the diffusion of responsibility on the internet works similarly to that in direct contact, say researchers from SWPS University.

Optics & Photonics 1 hour ago

Novel light transport model improves X-ray phase contrast imaging

Researchers at the University of Houston unveiled an advancement in X-ray imaging technology that could provide significant improvements in medical diagnostics, materials and industrial imaging, transportation security and ...

Agriculture 1 hour ago

Could manure and compost act like probiotics, reducing antibiotic resistance in urban soils?

Urban soils often contain chemical contaminants, such as heavy metals or trace amounts of antibiotics, along with higher levels of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. New research from the University of Maryland suggests that, ...

Astronomy 1 hour ago

NASA telescopes work out black hole's feeding schedule

By using new data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory as well as ESA's XMM-Newton, a team of researchers has made important headway in understanding how—and when—a supermassive black ...

Environment 2 hours ago

Research reveals pharmaceuticals are polluting England's National Parks

Research from the University of York and the Rivers Trust has revealed widespread contamination of rivers in the parks, with antidepressants, anticonvulsants, antimicrobials, anti-inflammatory substances, lipid regulators ...

Plants & Animals 2 hours ago

Scientists spot girls-only shark slumber party in Bass Strait's Beagle Marine Park

Scientists on a return journey to Beagle Marine Park in central Bass Strait have spotted thousands of sleepy Port Jackson sharks blanketing the seafloor.

Analytical Chemistry 2 hours ago

Enabling magnetostrictive strain-sensitivity synergy in polycrystalline Fe₈₁Ga₁₉ alloys

Magnetostrictive Fe-Ga alloys with low temperature dependence, high permeability, and good mechanical properties have gained increasing attraction among various magnetostrictive materials. In particular, polycrystalline Fe-Ga ...

Social Sciences 2 hours ago

Dark rituals: Understanding society's fascination with death and disaster

Understanding why the popularity of organized events steeped in themes of death, disaster and suffering--such as the well-known Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead), Jack the Ripper Walking Tours and Remembrance Sunday--could ...

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