When organizations turn a blind eye to sexual harassment in the workplace, how many people need to take a stand before the behavior is no longer seen as normal?
According to a new paper published in Science, there is a...
Researchers are urging universities across the United States to find a new way to identify the next generation of scientists. A new study discovered that traditional admissions metrics for physics Ph.D. programs such as the Graduate Record Examination (GRE)...
Participants in the PES program receiving their payments for conserving trees.
Credit: Photo courtesy of Chimpanzee Sanctuary and Wildlife Conservation Trust
A new Northwestern University study suggests that paying people to conserve their trees could be a highly cost-effective way to...
The contributing factors of traction alopecia are shown.
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In a review of 19 studies, researchers at Johns Hopkins say they can confirm a "strong association" between certain scalp-pulling hairstyles -- many common among African-Americans -- and the...
This is a digital relay baton developed by Lancaster University researchers.
Credit: Dr Franco Curmi
The loneliness of the long distance runner could soon be a thing of the past as new technology allows crowds to cheer on athletes from anywhere...
How come today's conservatives are more liberal than yesterday's liberals? Why has public opinion in large parts of the world shifted so rapidly in favour of gay and lesbian rights, but been virtually unchanged on other contested issues such...
The research, published in the International Journal of Intercultural Relations, analysed data from Australia's Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children to better understand the link between the health and social wellbeing of Indigenous people and their connection to traditional cultures...
It's a small world after all.
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It's a small world after all -- and now science has explained why.
A study conducted by the University of Leicester and KU Leuven, Belgium, examined how...
Students perform less well in end-of-term exams if they are allowed access to an electronic device, such as a phone or tablet, for non-academic purposes in lectures, a new study in Educational Psychology finds.
Students who don't use such devices...
MSU's William Chopik led a study examining empathy by country. Countries in dark red have high empathy, while countries in light pink are low empathy. The countries in gray were not studied due to small sample sizes.Credit: Image courtesy...
Lower social cohesion among neighbors and higher crime rates contribute to higher rates of psychotic symptoms among urban children, a new study from researchers at Duke University and King's College London finds.
Previous research has also identified higher rates of...
