Wealth can lead to more satisfying life if viewed as a sign of success vs. happiness
Money can't buy you happiness, but it could motivate you to live a better life.
Social Sciences
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News tagged with influences
Genome research shows that the body controls the integrity of heritable genomes
Scientists at the CECAD Cluster of Excellence in Aging Research of the University of Cologne have discovered that body cells which are in direct contact with the germ cells in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans are responsible ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 24, 2019
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One million species risk extinction due to humans: draft UN report
Up to one million species face extinction due to human influence, according to a draft UN report obtained by AFP that painstakingly catalogues how humanity has undermined the natural resources upon which its very survival ...
Ecology
Apr 23, 2019
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Climate change to blame for Hurricane Maria's extreme rainfall
Hurricane Maria dropped more rain on Puerto Rico than any storm to hit the island since 1956, a feat due mostly to the effects of human-caused climate warming, new research finds.
Earth Sciences
Apr 16, 2019
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Man's impact on flax evolution more limited than thought
Flax naturally adapted to new environments rather than by human influence due to a set of genes that enable it to change its architecture according to researchers from the School of Life Sciences at the University of Warwick.
Biotechnology
Jan 30, 2019
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Zoologist outlines how humans have altered evolution over past century
Zoologist Sarah Otto, with the University of British Columbia, has published a report in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B regarding human influence on evolution over the past century. She notes that the number ...
New model reveals forgotten influencers and 'sleeping beauties' of science
For centuries, scientists and scholars have measured the influence of individuals and discoveries through citations, a crude statistic subject to biases, politics and other distortions. A new paper led by the Knowledge Lab ...
Social Sciences
Mar 19, 2018
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Social susceptibility: Leader-follower dynamics of influential individuals in a social group
This is the story of a spider, small but bold.
Plants & Animals
Jan 2, 2018
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Human-caused warming increasing likelihood of record-breaking hot years
A new study finds human-caused global warming is significantly increasing the rate at which hot temperature records are being broken around the world.
Environment
Nov 8, 2017
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Close encounters of the stellar kind
The movements of more than 300 000 stars surveyed by ESA's Gaia satellite reveal that rare close encounters with our sun might disturb the cloud of comets at the far reaches of our solar system, sending some towards Earth ...
Astronomy
Aug 31, 2017
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