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Researchers asked engineering students to tell stories about challenges they had faced. Telling the stories, students said, made them more likely to stay in their major.
A falsehood once used on Barack Obama – that he wasn’t eligible to be president – is being recycled to challenge the right of Kamala Harris to serve as president.
Library scientists offer tips and tricks to figure out if a particular online news article is reliable or fake.
Human psychology is influenced by a complex network of genes and environmental factors. Studying how and when genes fail to cooperate could broaden our understanding of behavior.
Nearly 20% of House and Senate members are 70 or older, and only 6% are under 40. What explains Congress’ advanced age?
Los pastores grababan nombres, lemas, siluetas de desnudos y mucho más en los árboles que les rodeaban durante las temporadas solitarias en las montañas. Ahora, los investigadores se apresuran a encontrar y grabar los arborglifos antes de que desaparezcan.
Herders carved names, slogans, nude silhouettes and more into the trees around them during lonely seasons in the mountains. Now, researchers rush to find and record the arborglyphs before they disappear.
Very few Americans believe Congress is doing a good job. Some of them have a simple solution: Throw the bums out and institute term limits. But that creates more problems than it solves.
With over 80 million believers in 160 countries, the Anglican Communion has been grappling with LGBTQ+ issues since the 1970s.
The disintegration of the United States’ relationship with Niger following its military coup in 2023 is giving way to stronger ties between the African country and Russia and China.
Use-inspired research goes beyond translational research to build lasting connections between researchers and communities.
Measuring the concentration of radioactive elements in a single, sand-size crystal reveals the growth of the Himalayan mountain range over time.
If you hear the 118th Congress described as a bunch of slackers, you’re not getting the whole story.
Hundreds of thousands of people in Germany are taking to the streets to push back against the far-right, nationalist policies of the AfD, which currently holds 11% of the seats in parliament.
A presidential candidate’s ‘home state advantage’ should help them win a primary, which then bodes well for how they do in successive contests. But if they lose their home state, they’re in trouble.
Two states that are not representative of the US, particularly in terms of race, have outsize influence in the presidential campaign.
Researchers examined the emotional content of nearly 300 Super Bowl ads that aired from 2018 to 2022.
Uma nova pesquisa fornece evidências, pela primeira vez, de que o principal produto químico do Roundup está atingindo as pessoas que moram nas proximidades, e não é apenas pelos alimentos que elas consomem.
New research provides evidence for the first time that the primary chemical in Roundup is reaching people in nearby homes, and it isn’t just from the food they eat.
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Associate Professor of Marketing, Boise State University
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Assistant Professor of Political Science, Boise State University
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Professor and Head of Special Collections and Archives for Albertsons Library, Boise State University
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Librarian and Associate Professor, Boise State University
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Associate professor of engineering, Boise State University
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Associate Professor of Political Science, Boise State University
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Professor of Biological Sciences, Boise State University
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Assistant Professor of Psychological Science, Boise State University
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Professor of History, Boise State University
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Associate Professor, Boise State University
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Professor of History and Gender Studies, Boise State University
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Librarian and Associate Professor, Boise State University
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Professor of Political Science, Boise State University
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Professor of Educational Technology, Boise State University
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Library professor, Boise State University
