Bribery is among the most recognizable forms of corruption, and new research is shedding light on personality traits that could deter this behavior. Guilt-prone people are less likely to accept bribes, particularly when the ...
Social Sciences
May 22, 2023
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For millennia, humans have used knots for all kinds of reasons—to tie rope, braid hair, or weave fabrics. But there are organisms that are better at tying knots and far superior—and faster—at untangling them.
Molecular & Computational biology
Apr 27, 2023
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Most animals alive today are ectothermic, or cold-blooded, which means that they are at the mercy of their environment when it comes to regulating their body temperature.
Plants & Animals
Mar 3, 2023
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Imagine a world with precision medicine, where a swarm of microrobots delivers a payload of medicine directly to ailing cells. Or one where aerial or marine drones can collectively survey an area while exchanging minimal ...
Quantum Physics
Mar 1, 2023
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U.S. elementary school students do not particularly benefit from being taught by teachers of the same race or ethnicity. That's the major finding from our new study, published in Early Childhood Research Quarterly. We analyzed ...
Social Sciences
Feb 16, 2023
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Particles tend to behave differently once there are a lot of them. The microscopic models that describe their behavior quickly become very hard to calculate, because of the increasing complexity and the sheer volume of the ...
Mathematics
Feb 7, 2023
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The shift to remote working in March 2020 caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has raised many questions on the future of work. A new report looks at who has benefited from remote and hybrid work models and what organizations ...
Social Sciences
Nov 9, 2022
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Behavioral economics is a field that seeks to understand how people make decisions about things they want and need. The field relies on a collection of theories—models—that predict how people will make choices in a variety ...
Social Sciences
Jul 12, 2022
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A team of researchers at the University of Washington's Center for an Informed Public has found social media platform managers could dramatically reduce the spread of misinformation on their sites by combining just a few ...
A new technique developed by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) uses artificial intelligence to efficiently update the vegetation maps that are relied on by wildfire computer models to accurately predict ...
Environment
May 31, 2022
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