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Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain When it comes to raising children in the digital age, one of the worst things a parent can do is give their kid a smartphone and hope for the best. Turns out, same goes for the grownups. That shouldn't come as a big surprise, according to Robin Nabi, a UC Santa Barbara professor of communication…

Credit: Weiwei Chen/Bocconi University The experience of the jihadist terrorist attacks that plagued Western Europe between 2015 and 2017 shows that perceived threats from ethnic and religious minorities affect the tone of public discourse about immigration and the support for radical right parties, according to a new study published in the American Journal of Political Science, which uses German data, including more than 10…

Mean CH4 (a) and CO2 (b) emissions from the aquatic areas of Skogaryd Research Catchment (SRC) showing higher emissions from localized areas in streams and lakes. Note the variable rates of CH4 emissions between the lakes and within the lakes. White areas in lakes and streams denote areas not studied. The background map of SRC was obtained from Lantmäteriet (National Land Survey of Sweden). Credit: Limnology and Oceanography Letters (2023). DOI:…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Compass readings that do not show the direction of true north and interference with the operations of satellites are a few of the problems caused by peculiarities of the Earth's magnetic field. The magnetic field radiates around the world and far into space, but it is set by processes that happen…

Two seep tents made their way from San Francisco to Coal Oil Point in the early 1980s. Credit: ARCO PUBLICITY PHOTO From oil rigs to tar seeps, it's hard to miss the presence of petroleum around the Santa Barbara Channel. And the proximity of UC Santa Barbara has enabled scientists to investigate the interplay between the two processes releasing oil from underground: human enterprise and regional geology.…

Did the U.S. add half a million jobs in January or did it lose 2.5 million? The government said both happened—but investors and policy makers cared about the seasonally adjusted increase of 517,000.The three-million difference shows how views on the economy are shaped by federal agencies accounting for normal yearly patterns due to factors such as the temperature, holidays, school dates and travel schedules. Throughout the year, consumers and firms alter their behavior, buying coats in the winter and hot dogs…

<!----> Redesigned Ford Ranger pickup was developed jointly with VW’s Amarok February 2023 registrations of 9,541 new vehicles were 23.7 % down on February 2022 and the lowest tally for the month since 2014 due to recent floods and widespread disruption caused by cyclone Gabrielle, the…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Researchers from Boston College, Georgetown University, American University, Texas A&M University, and Colorado State University published a new Journal of Marketing article that challenges the entrenched belief that financial vulnerability only affects low-income consumers. The study is titled "Beyond…

Some 2,340 flights have been cancelled at Bremen, Dortmund, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hanover, Munich and Stuttgart airports due to a 24-hour strike. German trade union Verdi announced the strike on Wednesday after it said collective bargaining efforts for ground service staff, public sector officials and aviation…

Space travel places great stress on the mind and body. With an eye on its implications for future space travel, a new study out of Belgium is the first to examine how flight that involves exposure to significant changes in g-forces impacts the functioning of pilots' brains.While the human brain can alter its structure and function in response to changing environmental conditions thanks to neuroplasticity, it is recognized that traveling in a zero-gravity environment can be detrimental to health. Long-haul space missions,…