Insider trading grabs headlines, gets the Hollywood treatment and garners plenty of investigations. Yet a far less notorious and scrutinized activity known as "insider giving" similarly damages markets and the broader society ...
Economics & Business
Mar 16, 2021
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From psychological thrillers to true crime stories, people who depart from social norms can be deeply fascinating. Psychopaths most of all.
Social Sciences
Mar 16, 2021
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Using synchrotron radiation at SPring-8—a large-scale synchrotron radiation facility—Tohoku University, Toshiba Corporation, and the Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute (JASRI) have successfully imaged the ...
General Physics
Jan 7, 2021
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On a fateful April night ten years ago, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded—taking the lives of 11 crew members and triggering the largest marine oil spill in history. Nearly five million barrels of oil spilled into ...
Economics & Business
Dec 1, 2020
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Appeals seeking donations to help fight hunger during the COVID-19 pandemic were more successful when the typeface in which the appeal was written mirrored the tone of the donation request, a new study has found.
Economics & Business
Oct 6, 2020
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Pale, male and stale—it's certainly stereotypical, but it's a saying that still holds water when it comes to Australian boards, according to new research from the University of South Australia.
Economics & Business
Sep 23, 2020
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As movements calling for racial justice have grown throughout the country in recent weeks, many businesses have increased visibility of their diversity initiatives. But few companies ever report on the results of these initiatives, ...
Economics & Business
Sep 3, 2020
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Is six seconds long enough for an advertisement to woo a potential customer? The corporate executives who place short, "bumper ads" on the video-based social media service, Youtube, think so. Now, research published in the ...
Economics & Business
Jul 8, 2020
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Oil is the most effective natural resource when it comes to keeping despots in power, new research shows.
Economics & Business
Jun 25, 2020
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Engineers at Duke University and the New York University's Tandon School of Engineering have demonstrated a method for ensuring that an increasingly popular method of genetic identification called "DNA fingerprinting" remains ...
Biotechnology
May 21, 2020
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