Before March 2020, the idea of remote work was not a realistic option for many businesses. However, the COVID-19 pandemic changed options drastically for employees almost overnight, and the remote work experiment began. Fast ...
Social Sciences
Nov 17, 2022
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Global warming is responsible for bigger and bigger fires in Siberia, and in the decades ahead they could release huge amounts of carbon now trapped in the soil, says a report out Thursday.
Environment
Nov 6, 2022
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A Rice University lab is leading the effort to reveal potential threats to the efficacy and safety of therapies based on CRISPR-Cas9, the Nobel Prize-winning gene editing technique, even when it appears to be working as planned.
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 24, 2022
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A review of 22 previously published studies suggests that taking micro-breaks—discontinuing a task for periods of 10 minutes or less—is generally associated with reduced fatigue and increased vigor. Patricia Albulescu ...
Social Sciences
Aug 31, 2022
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DNA double-strand breaks are one of the biggest threats to the genome and a driving force of carcinogenesis. Cellular repair mechanisms such as homologous recombination are essential for the maintenance of genome stability ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 24, 2022
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A new study from researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison shows why letting stereotypes inform our judgments of unfamiliar people can be such a hard habit to break.
Social Sciences
Aug 2, 2022
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In econometrics and statistics, a structural break is revealed when a sudden change occurs in the way a business or market functions. Ignoring these breaks leads to forecast failure.
Economics & Business
Jul 28, 2022
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Spring Break—the unofficial kickoff to National Parks season—is here. And thanks to the Every Kid Outdoors program, hundreds of families with fourth graders will soon be hiking Delicate Arch for free. In fact, the free ...
Social Sciences
Apr 6, 2022
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Geologists describe the process of an earthquake as occurring in three distinct phases. During the interseismic phase, strain builds up along a fault as adjacent pieces of crust catch onto one another and move in opposite ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 29, 2021
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"One thing that can get lost in digital teaching is the process of building social relationships. This network building normally takes place during coffee breaks, shared lunch and in the queue at the toilet or coffee machine," ...
Education
Sep 28, 2021
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