Making time-limited offers is a common retail pricing strategy with shoppers. Examples of time pressure include the doorstep seller who claims that they are currently “in the area” but will not be returning, the telephone seller who makes a “special offer” that can be accepted only during that phone call, the Internet site that offers ...
The flooding from torrential rains caused by cyclones and monsoonal storms, as well as other catastrophic events, is responsible for moving huge amounts of trees to a watery grave deep under the ocean, according to Earth scientists. Their research, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, shows the first-ever evidence that trees may ...
Candidates at job interviews expect to be evaluated on their experience, conduct, and ideas, but a new study by Yale researchers provides evidence that interviewees are judged based on their social status seconds after they start to speak, a form of bias in hiring. The study, to be published in the Proceedings of the National ...
Australian creatures like the echidna and the koala are celebrated for their oddness. The fossil record shows that these oddities reach far back into prehistory, as illustrated in the form of a fossil horseshoe crab found in Tasmania that has been renamed by UNE paleontologist Dr. Russell Bicknell, saying: “The specimen from the Upper Permian ...
A study finds that even the tallest ice cliffs should be able to support their weight rather than collapse catastrophically. The Antarctic ice sheet spans close to twice the area of the contiguous United States, and its land boundary is buttressed by massive, floating ice shelves extending hundreds of miles out over the frigid waters ...
A new study led by Yale University confirms a long-held theory about the last great mass extinction event in history and how it affected Earth’s oceans. The findings may also answer questions about how marine life eventually recovered. The researchers say it is the first direct evidence that the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event 66 million years ...
Humankind first started farming in Mesopotamia about 11,500 years ago. Subsequently, the practices of cultivating crops, raising livestock, and the concept of private property emerged independently at perhaps a dozen other places around the world. This period is what archaeologists call the Neolithic Agricultural Revolution. It’s one of the most thoroughly-studied episodes in prehistory — ...
Just like the Moon orbits the Earth, and the Earth orbits the Sun, galaxies orbit each other according to the predictions of cosmology. For example, more than 50 discovered satellite galaxies orbit our own galaxy, the Milky Way. The largest of these is the Large Magellanic Cloud, or LMC, a large dwarf galaxy that resembles a ...
A NASA team uses supercomputing to evaluate a retropropulsion-powered descent to the Martian surface for a Mars landing. The type of vehicle that will carry people to the Red Planet is shaping up to be “like a two-story house you’re trying to land on another planet. The heat shield on the front of the vehicle ...
An international team of astronomers, led by the University of Southampton, has used state-of-the-art cameras to create a high frame-rate movie of a growing black hole system at a level of detail never seen before. In the process, they uncovered new clues to understanding the immediate surroundings of these enigmatic objects. The scientists published their work ...
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