Russian neuroscientists report that the stress experienced by mice during their first weeks of life affects not only them, but also their offspring. The data will help to understand how negative experience in early life affects ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 9, 2019
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In addition to being a well-known cleaning product, ammonia is essential in the manufacture of fertilizers. The chemical process to synthesize ammonia has hardly changed in 100 years, and is still essential, although scientists ...
Materials Science
Aug 6, 2018
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Days ahead of the implementation of a sweeping European privacy law, debate is swirling on whether the measure will have negative consequences for cybersecurity.
Internet
May 22, 2018
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An employee receives significantly more praise if his actions result in positive consequences than his superior. An experiment conducted by a team of researchers from Bochum and Cologne has demonstrated that, unlike previously ...
Economics & Business
Feb 20, 2018
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Positive media attention for politicians has a far larger effect on citizen's voting behaviour than negative media reporting. Interestingly: negative attention during an election campaign has no negative consequences whatsoever ...
Social Sciences
Jan 25, 2018
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Although many studies over the past century have looked at the effect of racism on American health outcomes, an astonishingly small amount of that research has asked how it affects the health of whites.
Social Sciences
Oct 20, 2017
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Children whose parents have spent time behind bars have worse social, economic, cognitive, behavior and health outcomes than kids whose parents haven't.
Social Sciences
Jul 24, 2017
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There are around 550 different bee species in Germany. Most of them are solitary bees. They don't live in large beehives like the honeybee, but each female bee often builds multiple nests and feeds her offspring alone. Solitary ...
Ecology
Jul 6, 2017
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Women are judged negatively if they choose to take maternity leave - and if they don't - new research suggests.
Social Sciences
May 31, 2017
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Children may be more vulnerable than previously thought to those who might exploit their digital footprint to track their location or obtain private information.
Social Sciences
May 9, 2017
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