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Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain New research by Caltech's Kirby Nielsen, assistant professor of economics and William H. Hurt Scholar, shows that the gender gap in confidence that is often held responsible for women's underachievement in the workplace is "contagious"; that is, when evaluating a worker's performance based on self-assessments, reviewers will reward apparent self-confidence—and conversely, penalize a lack of…

Credit: Magali Guimarães from Pexels Violence spreads in a contagious way like a disease among members of the Italian mafia, a new study shows. Researchers have found committing violent acts with others increases the likelihood that people in these groups will go on to carry out more violent offenses in the future. The analysis of the criminal careers…

It’s about to get tougher for viewers to share logins on more popular streaming services. The Hulu, Disney+, and ESPN+ trio will now disallow users from sharing passwords outside of their households.On Wednesday, subscribers of Disney-owned Hulu received an email informing them that, starting March 14, the company would start adding “limitations on sharing your account outside of your household.” The company also revised its Terms of Service to explicitly ban password sharing outside of “your primary personal…

Contribution patterns in Study 1. Credit: Harrell & Wolff How is cooperation affected when people can receive secondhand information about what others are contributing? Ashley Harrell and Tom Wolff investigated this question through an online cooperation game. Participants were recruited from a large subject pool of university students and other adults,…

Antibiogram of XDR (extensively drug-resistant) Shigella sonnei. Credit: National Reference Center for E. coli, Shigella and Salmonella, Institut PasteurThe emergence of extensively drug-resistant (XDR) strains of Shigella sonnei has been detected by scientists at the Institut Pasteur’s French National Reference Center for Escherichia coli, Shigella, and Salmonella. Shigellosis, a highly contagious diarrheal disease caused by Shigella bacteria, is prevalent not only in industrializing countries but also in industrialized…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Imagine that you're approaching your favorite coffee shop, when your eyes are suddenly drawn toward an interaction between two strangers happening just outside its doors. One man sits, leaning against the glass window, knees drawn to his chest, a plastic bag of belongings on the sidewalk. Above him, a woman, hand tenderly outstretched, offers the man a few dollar bills.…

The community of people living around you could influence the community of microbes living inside of you.The largest and most diverse review to date has found evidence that who you live with and who you were raised by could have a greater impact on your microbiome than some lifestyle factors, age, or even genetics.If the findings are right, then the trillions of microbes that call our bodies home could be more contagious than we've realized. And that could have serious implications for public health.The research led by…

A new, rapidly spreading variant of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID, means a rise in new infections could be around the corner. And while it likely won’t skirt immunity completely, the variant could dodge some of our defenses thanks to a mutational boost. XBB.1.5—unofficially nicknamed “Kraken” by some scientists online—is an Omicron subvariant that has caught the attention of virologists in recent weeks because of its significant advantage in how fast it spreads. Research by computational virologist Trevor…

Art imitates life, and life imitates art World of Warcraft‘s Corrupted Blood pandemic from back in 2005 is one of the most notorious, and yet fascinating, things to ever happen in the game. It even has its own Wikipedia page titled “The Corrupted Blood Incident.” For those who may not be familiar, basically what happened was that there was a debuff associated with a certain boss fight at the end of a raid. The debuff could pass between players in close proximity, and while it was intended to be active only in the boss’…

British soul singer Kenny Thomas rose to fame in the early 90s with the release of his debut album ‘Voices’. That record spawned hits such as ‘Thinking About Your Love’, ‘Best Of You’ and ‘Outstanding’. It’s been over 10 years since Thomas last released a single, and next week he’s releasing the catchy late summer jam ‘Contagious’. I spoke to Kenny to find out more about ‘Contagious’, discuss his upcoming London headline show, and to look back on the impact of ‘Voices’… I’m excited to be speaking to you. Your…