Racial bias matters on crowdfunding sites like Indiegogo, Kickstarter, and GoFundMe
When it comes to success on a crowdfunding site, race matters.
Social Sciences
Mar 7, 2019
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News tagged with experimental groups
Prompting people to listen to each other reduces inequality and improves group performance
A small but impactful shift in the way a group assignment is presented can significantly reduce racial inequality within the group, as well as lead to better work, according to new research by Bianca Manago, assistant professor ...
Social Sciences
Sep 12, 2018
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New theory deepens understanding of Turing patterns in biology
A team of researchers at EMBL have expanded Alan Turing's seminal theory on how patterns are created in biological systems. This work, which was partly done at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), may answer whether nature's ...
General Physics
Jun 20, 2018
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Ocean acidification may cause dramatic changes to phytoplankton
Oceans have absorbed up to 30 percent of human-made carbon dioxide around the world, storing dissolved carbon for hundreds of years. As the uptake of carbon dioxide has increased in the last century, so has the acidity of ...
Environment
Jul 20, 2015
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Scientists seek an answer to an existential question for an East Texas hibiscus
Since 1997, a shrubby perennial found only in East Texas has been on a waiting list to be officially declared by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. A ruling on the fate of the ...
Ecology
Apr 23, 2013
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Environmental behaviour
Promoting the financial benefits of car sharing can inhibit other pro-environmental behaviours, new research led by the University has shown.
Environment
Aug 22, 2012
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A model system for group behavior of nanomachines
For the casual observer it is fascinating to watch the orderly and seemingly choreographed motion of hundreds or even thousands of fish, birds or insects. However, the formation and the manifold motion patterns of such flocks ...
General Physics
Sep 1, 2010
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