Conservation funding works.
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Governments and donors have spent billions of dollars since the 1992 Rio Earth Summit attempting to slow the pace of species extinctions around the world. Now, a new paper in Nature provides the...
The IFL PiRo robot detects the objects desired and automatically puts them into shopping baskets.
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Today, the desired book, toy or household appliance can be purchased by a click only -- thanks to online mail order business...
Countries looking to contain the spread of harmful species and diseases like COVID-19 should work together in multiple hotspots, according to a new model developed by an Arizona State University researcher.
Because it would be difficult to completely eliminate the...
Customers rarely post on a brand's page on their own and typically only see a fraction of a brand's Facebook content unless they are targeted with paid advertising. Image Credit: Flickr/Global Panorama
Social media managers who think that simply building...
The study of Tatsuya Sasaki suggests that the practice of avoiding moral assessments can be the best policy when assessing those who refuse to help wrongdoers. Copyright: University of Vienna/Barbara Mair
A research team led by mathematician Tatsuya Sasaki...
"If you work near someone, you're more likely to have substantive conversations more frequently," says doctoral student Matthew Claudel.
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Want to boost collaboration among researchers? Even in an age of easy virtual communication, physical proximity increases collaborative activity...
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Technology entrepreneurs who get funding from venture capitalists go public sooner and have more impactful innovation than those who partner with angel investors, according to research from the University at Buffalo School of Management.
Published in the Journal of...
This image from a scanning electron microscope shows a cross section of an object printed using cellulose. The inset shows the surface of the object. Credit: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
For centuries, cellulose has formed the basis of the world's...
This map shows the changing US CO2 footprint around the world between 1970 and 2008. Red hotspots illustrated where the US carbon footprint has increased, and in blue, decreased. The carbon footprint has gone down in some parts of...
A manager's support for fun actually mattered more than his or her support for learning, according to the researchers.Image: Flickr/franchichi eusebio
All work and no play may dull on-the-job learning at workplaces, according to a team of researchers.
In a study,...
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New research from the University of Arizona underscores how important it is for supervisors to pay attention to employees' emotions—especially when the emotion is anger.
Employees who are angry are more likely to engage in unethical behavior at...
