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“A green transition will not be good for everyone. If we pretend it’s not true, we are only creating an opportunity for populist politicians to say Oh look, they don’t want you to hear about that,” says Alexander Ruser. Credit: Maria van Schoor If you have been following the climate debate at all, you are…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new study from Bayes Business School (formerly Cass), the University of Missouri and the University of Arizona has uncovered the word properties that make slogans effective, as the researchers found that the attributes that make a slogan easier to process lead to it being more likable but less memorable, and…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain For many, neighborhoods that offer children access to better resources, less crime and less violence often result in better opportunities for healthier and more prosperous lives. Indeed, researchers studying the effects of moving to “opportunity neighborhoods” argue that very point and many policymakers have taken notice. However, so far, researchers have…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain In Summer 2022, Germany introduced an unprecedented reduction in public transport fares, the so-called 9-Euro Ticket, which granted nationwide access to public transport for just 9 Euros per month—recently followed up by the “DeutschlandTicket” program for 49 Euros per month. An analysis by RWI–Leibniz Institute for Economic Research and Yale University…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A new study, led by Professor Neil Thurman, Honorary Senior Research Fellow at City University of London along with Dr. Bartosz Wilczek and Ina Schulte-Uentrop from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), and published in the International Journal of Communication, reveals how a sales pitch mentioning both the financial pressures faced by news outlets…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Wildfires emit large amounts of smoke containing harmful pollutants that can drift for hundreds or thousands of miles away from their source, as shown by this summer’s Canadian wildfires, which created air quality problems as far afield as New York City. A paper co-written by a team of University of Illinois…

New firms registered in rural Texas from 2008–2018. Credit: PLOS ONE (2023). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0287217 In a new study published in PLOS One, a University of Texas at Arlington political scientist and UT System colleagues identified the factors that predict business creation in rural Texas. Mark Hand, assistant professor of political science at UTA, co-authored “Predicting…

Credit: Georgia Institute of Technology Conventional wisdom suggests that we give to charity at least partly because of post-donation warm and fuzzies that make us feel great inside. Turns out, it might be the other way around. Georgia Tech School of Economics Assistant Professor Casey Wichman and a colleague from the University of Massachusetts Amherst…

Tiny bubbles bursting in a drinker’s face and the bite of carbonation are all part of the experience when sipping champagne and sparkling wines. But how long can these drinks be stored in sealed bottles before they go flat? According to researchers reporting in ACS Omega, the answer depends on the container’s size. They estimate…

Orangutans can make two separate sounds simultaneously, much like songbirds or human beatboxers, according to a study led by the University of Warwick. Academics say the findings provide clues around the evolution of human speech, as well as human beatboxing. Scientists observed two populations of vocalising orangutans in Borneo and Sumatra across a total of…