University of Adelaide research shows the effect of warming is becoming increasingly obvious as water heats up off the coasts of Australia—and is especially noticeable in the way tropical fish are behaving as they migrate ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 28, 2022
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Schooling fish, moving synchronously in the water—the speed at which they change direction and the coordination of these sudden movements are fascinating, but how do they do it? In human sports, professional players can ...
Ecology
Oct 5, 2022
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Consumers react strongly to their product choices being copied, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research. They really dislike it when the copycat is someone similar to them.
Social Sciences
Jun 15, 2011
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Language and social identity have been making headlines recently. Last month, Air Canada's CEO Michael Rousseau faced scrutiny over not knowing French—his language deficit is helping support Bill 96 in Québec (which seeks ...
Social Sciences
Dec 8, 2021
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A study by researchers at the University of Arkansas confirms previous work showing that women prefer physical strength—upper-body strength, specifically—in short-term contexts, but find that affiliative—or benevolent—humor ...
Social Sciences
Oct 12, 2023
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Economist Deniz Sanin was at Starbucks when a bag of specialty coffee from Rwanda caught her eye. "I Googled it right away," she recalled. "It turns out, there's been a coffee boom in the country."
Social Sciences
Jul 26, 2024
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Italian officials have provided an interdisciplinary group of researchers from the University of South Florida access to the remains of individuals who died from the Black Death, a plague that killed millions of people in ...
Archaeology
Jul 19, 2023
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Domestic work carried out by immigrants is changing the way Spanish families care for their children, according to a study done by a researcher at Universidad Carlos III in Madrid who is analyzing this subject.
Social Sciences
Oct 11, 2011
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The Amazon basin contains the world's largest rain forest, famous for its rich biodiversity and importance in the world's oxygen and carbon cycles. It also has an outsized influence on water cycles in South America and beyond. ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 11, 2022
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For centuries, people have conveyed feelings of happiness and love with flowers. Now an EU research team has found that plants flower more when surrounded by relatives compared to when growing with strangers or alone.
Plants & Animals
Dec 11, 2018
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