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Credit: Harvard Gazette Pervasive myths that paint an overall picture of women having a lesser commitment to their jobs are hampering their career advancement, according to a new report on women in the workplace by McKinsey & Company and LeanIn.org, a nonprofit founded and chaired by Sheryl Sandberg, the former chief operating officer of Meta, Facebook's parent company. …

Eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano in the South Pacific on January 14, 2022, one day prior to the larger eruption plume that would significantly impact stratospheric composition. Credit: Tonga Geological Services, Adapted from Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0 When the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano erupted on January 15, 2022 in the South Pacific, it produced a shock wave felt around the world and triggered…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain When it comes to retaining and motivating employees, raises may seem like a sure bet. But a new study led by Tony Kong, an associate professor of organizational leadership at the CU Boulder Leeds School of Business, finds that performance-based pay can sometimes have the opposite effect—leading…

Credit: RDNE Stock project from Pexels New research released today by the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy explores charitable giving trends by race and ethnicity—a topic that has not been extensively studied—and looks at declines in participation in giving among communities of color during a nearly two-decade period. …

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new study suggests that self-deception is the key to understanding irrational actions of national leaders in war, as exemplified by Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine. Strategy underlies the affairs of national leaders, including how they view and interact with other states—but what if such…

(a) Map of the Cascadia subduction zone offshore Oregon with seismic line 15 from cruise RR1718 that was used in this study. Red stars represent locations of Site 174 from DSDP Leg 18 (Shipboard Scientific Party, 1973) and Site 892 from ODP Leg 146 (Shipboard Scientific Party, 1994). Water depths here range from approximately 3,000 (cool colors) to 0-m at the coastline. Bathymetry created using the Global Multi-Resolution Topography (GMRT) database from…

Double duty: The great revenue gap between Western and non-Western states is a much more recent phenomenon than commonly thought, one that didn't happen until the first half of the 20th century. Political scientists Alexander Lee and Jack Paine call it the 20th-century great revenue divergence. Credit: University of Rochester illustration / Julia Joshpe In 2015, two political scientists at the University of Rochester began…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The COVID-19 pandemic saw a marked surge of e-commerce and online grocery delivery services that persisted past lockdown conditions. The latest work by Carnegie Mellon University College of Engineering researchers examined the impacts of grocery delivery on energy…

Credit: University of New Mexico For centuries, nomadic pastoralists have been moving their livestock with the seasons between camps at the headwaters of the Yenisei River in Tuva in Russia and northern Mongolia. In new research, Adjunct Associate Professor of Anthropology at The University of New Mexico Paul Hooper examines the use and informal ownership of these camps depending on season and how they illustrate evolutionary…

Credit: Kmpzzz/Shutterstock Even before the pandemic, university students were at high risk of developing mental health problems. Transitioning to adulthood is already a period of heightened vulnerability, and for students, this can be combined with added stressors such as living away from home, financial hardship and changing social relationships. …