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Credit: CC0 Public Domain A high-powered intervention by 23 former national Presidents, 22 former Prime Ministers, a former UN General Secretary, and 3 Nobel Laureates are being made today to press for an urgent agreement from international negotiators on a Pandemic Accord under the Constitution of the World Health Organization, to bolster the world's collective preparedness and response to future pandemics.…

The study identified 16 different microplastic polymer types across both contemporary and archived samples. Credit: York Archaeology Researchers have for the first time discovered evidence of microplastic contamination in archaeological soil samples. The team discovered tiny microplastic particles in deposits located more than 7 meters deep, in…

Daily article downloads for tweeted vs. control articles after the tweeting date. Data obtained from John Wiley & Sons for five journals for the experimental (blue, n = 10 per journal) and control (red, n = 40 per journal) articles, aligned to the number of days after tweeting occurred for each experimental article. Credit: PLOS ONE (2024). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0292201 A team of researchers with varied backgrounds has…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain "First comes love, then comes marriage"—so goes the classic children's rhyme. But not everyone agrees. Increasingly, the idea that love is the most important reason to marry—or at least to stay married—is under attack. Republican pundits and lawmakers have been pushing back on the availability of no-fault divorce, challenging the idea that not being in love is a valid reason to end a marriage.…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain By analyzing digital copies of an incredibly rare and obscure 17th-century Italian religious text, a University of Bristol academic has revealed that a long-lost document previously thought to have been written by William Shakespeare's father belongs, in fact, to his relatively unknown sister Joan. The document, a…

Students are involved in the renovation work of the old house, receiving guidance from local carpenters, plasterers and joiners. Credit: Uchiyama Yuta What is a city? What are the geographical conditions and social factors that lead to the concentration of population in an area, and how does urbanization progress? And what is needed to create urban environments that meet the diversifying lifestyles and needs of people?…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain First impressions are often long-lasting and can impact a professional career in profound and unintended ways. Today, because initial business contacts often happen online—think an emailed intro, a phone text, or a Zoomed teleconference—many individuals form first impressions through these media. Andrew Brodsky,…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain White men who have experienced workplace harassment themselves are more likely to support efforts to combat race and gender bias in their organizations, according to a new University of Michigan study. The findings appear in the American Journal of Sociology. White men are less likely than women and people of color…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Major League Baseball's opening day is March 28, and chances are, some players will be working a bit harder this season than others. That's because every one-year increase in guaranteed contract length for MLB players leads to increases in underperformance of about $1.6 million per year in 2010 dollars, a new University of…

Digital transformation and the market share–profitability relationship. Notes: H1 entails a negative moderation effect, i.e., the relationship between market share and profitability is weaker for more digital companies than for less digital companies. Thus, for H2-H5, a “+” means that this negative moderation effect of H1 becomes weaker, while a “–” means that it becomes stronger. Credit: International Journal of Research in Marketing (2024). DOI:…