Tag: Amazon
Cellphone bans in the workplace are legal and more common among...
Richard Carlson, South Texas College of Law Houston
Cellphones in the workplace can be a distraction – but they...
Paying with a palm print? We’re victims of our own psychology...
Pam Briggs, Northumbria University, Newcastle
The online retail giant Amazon has moved from our screens to our streets, with...
Misinformation-spewing cable companies come under scrutiny
Joshua Braun, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Looking at political violence in the U.S., a New Jersey state legislator sent...
Tiny treetop flowers foster incredible beetle biodiversity
Caroline S. Chaboo, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
The Research Brief is a short take on interesting academic work.
The big idea
Biologists have long known that rainforest treetops...
Peatlands keep a lot of carbon out of Earth’s atmosphere, but...
Julie Loisel, Texas A&M University
Peatlands are a type of wetland where dead plant material doesn’t fully decompose because it’s too soggy. In these ecosystems,...
Five ways Black Friday shopping will be different in 2020
Amna Khan, Manchester Metropolitan University
Friday November 27 marks a key date in the UK’s retail calendar as consumers head online to take advantage of...
People’s bodies now run cooler than ‘normal’ – even in the...
Michael Gurven, University of California Santa Barbara and Thomas Kraft, University of California Santa Barbara
Feeling under the weather? Chances are you or your doctor...
Black Lives Matter, LGBTQ rights, Trump: The risks and rewards of...
Joshua T. Beck, University of Oregon
The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.
The big idea
Companies and CEOs are increasingly wading into...
EXPLORING NATURE
Oldest known cremation in Africa poses 9,500-year-old mystery about Stone Age...
Jessica C. Thompson, Yale University; Elizabeth Sawchuk, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York), and Jessica Cerezo-Román, University of Oklahoma
