Labor unions help employees take more paid maternity leave
Union-represented working mothers are at least 17 percent more likely to use paid maternity leave than comparable nonunion working mothers.
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New observations to understand the phase transition in quantum chromodynamics
The building blocks of matter in our universe were formed in the first 10 microseconds of its existence, according to the currently accepted scientific picture. After the Big Bang about 13.7 billion years ago, matter consisted ...
How ad 'heroes' move us… and connect us to their brands
You may have seen it: the Nike ad in which tennis star Serena Williams ignores the judgements of others and chooses her own path. These and similar ads use storylines that have seemingly little to do with the brand itself ...
Japan's largest complete dinosaur skeleton comes to life
The unearthed bones of Mukawaryu, Japan's largest complete dinosaur skeleton, have now been prepared and pieced together, giving us a fuller and clearer image of the 72 million-year-old dinosaur.
First images of mist dispersing around young galaxy
Galaxies in the early universe are shrouded in a kind of mist: a cloud of hydrogen. With galaxies in the later universe this mist has disappeared. Astronomer Jorryt Matthee has made the first images of this dissipating mist. ...
One big reason why women drop out of doctoral STEM programs
Many women in doctoral degree programs in fields like engineering and physics are in a class of their own—and that's not a good thing.
Breaking the symmetry between fundamental forces
A fraction of a second after the Big Bang, a single unified force may have shattered. Scientists from the CDF and DZero Collaborations used data from the Fermilab Tevatron Collider to re-create the early universe conditions. ...
Evolutionary changes in the genetic code of yeasts
Yeasts are some of the most important microbes used in biotechnology. Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the type of yeast used for making bread and beer, is just one representative of more than 1,500 yeast species found around the ...
Galactic 'wind' stifling star formation is most distant yet seen
For the first time, a powerful "wind" of molecules has been detected in a galaxy located 12 billion light-years away. Probing a time when the universe was less than 10 percent of its current age, University of Texas at Austin ...
Research-intensive universities in Africa? A model of how to build them
Sub-Saharan Africa accounts for 13.5% of the global population but less than 1% of global research output. In 2008, Africa produced 27,000 published papers – the same number as the Netherlands.
