Credit: Gerd Altmann from Pixabay When atoms interact with each other, they behave as a whole rather than individual entities. That can give rise to synchronized responses to inputs, a phenomenon that, if properly understood and controlled, may prove ...
Park holds a prototype model, which is made in translucent material to show the layers. The metal block to the left is a completed model representing the ground below Los Angeles. Credit: Jason Smith On a sunny morning in ...
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Veterans experience social stereotyping and disinterest, concludes anthropologist Yvon de Reuver, who will receive a Ph.D. for her research from Radboud University on 23 May. Veterans are known to suffer from psychological problems they developed ...
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain In 2017, there were nearly 40,000 gun-related deaths in the United States, including homicides and suicides. To delve into this alarming statistic, U.S.-trained Université de Montréal economist Karim Chalak and his coauthors did an econometric ...
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain COVID-19 has now claimed the lives of 1 million Americans—a grim milestone made worse by the fact that probably a third of those fatalities could have been avoided. Estimates suggest that more than 318,000 deaths ...
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain All social inequalities, by definition, involve one group that has more and another that has less. Do people prefer describing inequalities in terms of advantage or disadvantage? Using multiple methods and research contexts, new research ...
Using a new alternative weight-loss intervention that targets improving a person’s response to internal hunger cues and their ability to resist food, people who are highly responsive to food lost more weight and, importantly, were more successful at keeping ...
An artist’s rendering shows how a cluster of galaxies (lensing cluster) acts as a gravitational lens that magnifies and extends the light from a background galaxy. This results in a projected image (marked in the rectangle panel) that is ...
Wolverine numbers are declining globally due to heavy trapping and predator killing by humans, habitat loss, climate change and various other factors. Credit: Shutterstock Present day wolverines, which emerged during the ice age, have been declining globally despite their ...
Male and female bonobos interact. Credit: Martin Surbeck In the wild, it might seem like male animals run the show. But in a review publishing in Trends in Ecology & Evolution on May 18, researchers lay a new framework ...
The big picture: InSight’s dual solar panels, each measuring about seven feet wide, provide the requisite power for the lander. Unfortunately, the panels have accumulated enough dust to severely impact efficiency. When InSight first landed, its panels were able to ...
Want to stop your eyes from burning each time you have to use Snapchat? Try Snapchat dark mode! Dark mode is an awesome feature on both iPhones and Android devices. Mostly because it helps avid phone users reduce the ...
The researchers’ estimates include all taxes and transfers and account for the introductions and expirations of federal pandemic relief efforts. Credit: The Conversation, CC-BY-ND Source: Center on Poverty & Social Policy at Columbia University Although government spending on the ...
Popular Australian kids’ TV show, Bluey, is an example of what parents (and their kids) love about local content. What are parents’ favorite TV shows to watch with their kids? How important is it that kids’ TV is Australian? ...
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Ronald Hall is a professor in the School of Social Work at Michigan State University. He has written over 200 books/articles/monographs, etc., on colorism—discrimination on the basis of skin tone, often among the same ethnic ...
Scientists have finally gone too far. For the first time in history, scientists have created genetically modified cockroaches. Now, obviously, scientists going too far is a joke. But why exactly would scientists edit the genes of cockroaches? Well, for ...
Cesarean births are not linked to an increased risk of food allergy during the first year of life, according to a new study. Cesarean deliveries are not associated with an increased risk of food allergy during the first year ...
Graphical abstract. Credit: Marine Pollution Bulletin (2022). DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2022.113681 New research from the University of Portsmouth has shown a dramatic increase in shipping in the North East Atlantic. Scientists warn that more monitoring in the area is required to ...
Lockdowns due to COVID-19 has had a significant impact on coping strategies of women experiencing intimate partner violence, according to a new study. Credit: Rodnae Productions/Pexels The COVID-19 pandemic has substantially affected how women experiencing intimate partner violence (IPV) ...
Spain's notable Princess of Asturias Award honored Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, whose work on the Great Aztec Temple was a major event for over 20 years.
NASA’s ECOSTRESS instrument made this image of ground temperatures near Delhi (lower right), around midnight on May 5. The urban “heat islands” of Delhi and smaller villages peaked at 102 degrees Fahrenheit (39 degrees Celsius) while nearby fields were ...
Time evolution of the blackbody temperature (top) and radius (middle) and of the observed flux (bottom) of SGR J1935 between April 27, 2020 and November 20, 2020. Credit: Borghese et al., 2022. European astronomers have conducted a detailed, long-term ...
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The shape of the mandible (the lower jaw) is influenced by the mechanical action of the jaw muscles that connect it to the skull, and mandible shape therefore reflects the diet of the animal. The ...
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Soy—the versatile protein source that comes from the species of legumes known as soybeans—is becoming a popular alternative to meat and dairy products, and for good reason. Whether you are trying to eat healthier, eat ...
To pair or not to pair: The bound state constituted by two mobile charges without spin (left) wins against independent spin-charge pairs (right) in their competition for the lowest energy. Credit: Bohrdt et al. Over the past few years, ...
Finding signs of life on Mars has been a huge goal for NASA in recent years. While the space agency has sent several rovers and robotic explorers to the Red Planet, few have had as high a chance of ...
Phenomenological illustration and phase-field simulation of enhanced piezoelectricity via local structural heterogeneity and texture engineering. A) Landau free energy of ferroelectrics with different volume fraction of the local structural heterogeneity. B) Phase-field simulated polarization distribution of PMN-PT with 5% ...
CH3NH3PbBr3 (MAPbBr3) monocrystal imaging under UV light and under visible ambient ligh. Credit: Arthur Ishteev Russian scientists have developed a unique material based on halide perovskites for use in high-speed and highly sensitive ionizing radiation detectors. The study has ...
Dr Christian Sonnendecker and his team discovered an enzyme that breaks down PET plastic at record speed. Credit: Leipzig University / Swen Reichhold Plastic bottles, punnets, wrap—lightweight packaging made of PET plastic becomes a problem if it is not ...
(a–d) Optical layouts of conventional, open-top, single-objective, and theta light-sheet microscopy systems. Aspects of each microscope architecture, including number and orientation of objectives, lateral constraints on specimen size, maximum imaging depth, and tolerance to index mismatch are highlighted. (e–f) ...
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Most children in the U.S. grow up with siblings, yet the role of sibling relations in child development and well-being is relatively understudied, especially among families of color. Researchers at Penn State, Arizona State University, ...
These photos show details of the set-up installed for the automation of the irrigation system in the experimental tomato field. Top is the electro-valve and pressure sensor; bottom is the fertigation manifold. For each treatment, the fertigation system included back-flow valve ...
While one mother primarily complies with her baby’s begging behavior but not in other contexts, another readily responds to her youngster’s demands across all social contexts. Credit: Fröhlich Together with a Swiss-German team, behavioral scientist Dr. Marlen Fröhlich from ...
"Ribbon concordance” will let mathematicians compare knots by linking them across four-dimensional space.
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Excerpted from RECULTURING: Design Your Company Culture to Connect with Strategy and Purpose for Lasting Success. Copyright © 2022 by Melissa Daimler. Used with permission by McGraw Hill. Culture can be operationalized and reinforced through the behaviors, processes, and practices ...
Jim is a multiple award-winning science communicator renowned for his public engagement around the world through writing and broadcasting and a leading academic making fundamental contributions to theoretical physics, particularly in nuclear reaction theory, quantum effects in biology, open ...
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Divide, subtract, add, multiply: whatever way you cut it, Australia is heading in one direction when it comes to global math rankings—downwards. From an OECD mathematics ranking of 11 in the world 20 years ago, ...
Schematic of experimental setup. In Alice’s (Bob’s) lab, a seed laser is locked to an ultra-low-expansion (ULE) glass cavity to achieve a subhertz linewidth by using the Pound-Drever-Hall (PDH) [41, 42] technique. After PDH locking, a 500 MHz acoustic-optic modulator ...
Are you a grade B maple syrup fan? For a lot of maple syrup connoisseurs, grade B was always the go-to syrup. It’s dark, caramelly, rich, and complex. But unfortunately, you can’t get it anymore. To understand why, we have ...