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Social Sciences Apr 4, 2022

Study finds empowering workers can backfire

There is an increasing body of work demonstrating the benefits of empowering workers, but a new study finds that efforts to empower employees need to be coupled with efforts that allow those employees to do their jobs well. ...

Economics & Business Mar 30, 2022

Cause-related marketing has a dark side

Cause-related marketing (C-RM) should be good for everyone: a business aligns itself with a good cause, sells its products as it normally would, and the resulting proceeds are donated to the cause.

Planetary Sciences Mar 17, 2022

It's springtime on Mars, and the dunes are defrosting

Nothing says springtime on Mars like defrosting dunes.

Plasma Physics Mar 11, 2022

The dark side of the universe: How black holes became supermassive

Black holes are among the most compelling mysteries of the universe. Nothing, not even light, can escape a black hole. And at the center of nearly every galaxy there is a supermassive black hole that's millions to billions ...

Space Exploration Feb 25, 2022

Chinese rover finds translucent glass globules on the moon

Scientists say China's Yutu-2 rover, part of the Chang'E-4 mission, has found several small glass globules on the moon's far side. While tiny glass beads have been found previously in lunar samples brought back by the Apollo ...

General Physics Feb 25, 2022

New simulations refine axion mass, refocusing dark matter search

Physicists searching—unsuccessfully—for today's most favored candidate for dark matter, the axion, have been looking in the wrong place, according to a new supercomputer simulation of how axions were produced shortly after ...

Optics & Photonics Feb 24, 2022

The chemistry behind your LCD flat-screen devices: How a scientist changed the world

In a laboratory at the University of Hull 50 years ago, a new chemical compound was created that would impact the world as much as any drug, fuel or material. The man responsible for this society-changing invention was George ...

Education Feb 22, 2022

New book explores how schools can prepare students for an uncertain future

As technology evolves and changes the world at a faster pace than ever before, two veteran educators have written a new book that explores how schools can prepare young people for a globalized future that is still taking ...

Astronomy Feb 21, 2022

A "hot Jupiter's" dark side is revealed in detail for first time

MIT astronomers have obtained the clearest view yet of the perpetual dark side of an exoplanet that is "tidally locked" to its star. Their observations, combined with measurements of the planet's permanent day side, provide ...

General Physics Feb 18, 2022

Time and beauty reveal the physics of human perceptions

Adrian Bejan, the J.A. Jones Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Duke University, has published a new book titled "Time and Beauty: Why Time Flies and Beauty Never Dies." This is Bejan's fourth book written ...

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