How intermittent feedback drives consumer impatience

Researchers from Fudan University’s School of Management have published a new paper in the Journal of…

Study: Allowing financial trading in California's wholesale electricity market significantly reduces volatility

Forward markets—over-the-counter marketplaces that set the price of a financial instrument or asset—are used to trade…

Why consumers forgo front-row seats: Sacrificing experience quality for togetherness

Researchers from Texas A&M University’s Mays Business School, Harvard University’s Harvard Business School and University of…

Sexing chicken eggs by scent

Fertilized chicken eggs can be sexed by “sniffing” volatile chemicals emitted through the shell, according to…

Study looks at reproductive inequality in humans compared to other species

In modern society, one parent may take a daughter to ballet class and fix dinner so…

Machine learning approach opens insights into an entire class of materials being pursued for solid-state batteries

A team of researchers at Duke University and their collaborators have uncovered the atomic mechanisms that…

Harvard study finds implicit racial bias highest among white people

If there’s one thing we should all be able to agree on, it’s that all human…

Study points out errors in illustrations of one of the most famous scientific experiments

Illustrations of scientific experiments play a fundamental role in both science education and the dissemination of…

First contact: Global team to simulate message from extraterrestrial intelligence to Earth

What would happen if we received a message from an extraterrestrial civilization? Daniela de Paulis, an…

Effects of crypto mining on Texas power grid

Scientists are working to understand how cryptocurrency mining impacts the power grid and how to use…