Public Release: 26-Apr-2018 Rutgers researchers determine New Jersey’s autism prevalence rate is 1 in 34 Rutgers University IMAGE: Walter Zahorodny, an associate professor of pediatrics at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School who directed the New Jersey portion of the study,… Read More ›
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Who is using guns for suicide?
Public Release: 26-Apr-2018 Boston University School of Medicine (Boston)–The average profile of an American using a gun for suicide is a married, white male over the age of 50 who is experiencing deteriorating health. “Gun suicides may be preventable… Read More ›
US autism rate edges up in new CDC report (*The rate is one in 38 among boys*)
Public Release: 26-Apr-2018 Researchers say racial and ethnic disparities are narrowing Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health contributed to a new U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention… Read More ›
New app could make cannabis use safer
Public Release: 24-Apr-2018 ‘Am I Stoned’ app designed to help users understand their impairment Experimental Biology 2018 IMAGE: A test of tapping speed helps app users assess their level of impairment from marijuana use. Credit: Harriet de Wit Although cannabis,… Read More ›
2.7 billion tweets confirm: Echo chambers on Twitter are very real
Public Release: 24-Apr-2018 Bipartisan users, who try to bridge the echo chambers, need to pay a price for their work: They become less central in their own network, lose connections to their communities and receive less endorsements from other… Read More ›
Education, not income, the best predictor of a long life
Public Release: 16-Apr-2018 International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis IMAGE: This is a curve showing the relationship between income and life expectancy in 1970, 1990 and 2010. Credit: © Lutz/Kebede Rising income and the subsequent improved standards of living have… Read More ›
Is it time to abandon the Nobel Prize?
Public Release: 16-Apr-2018 De Gruyter In a commentary piece published in De Gruyter’s journal Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, authors Clare Fiala and Eleftherios P. Diamandis spawned a debate now further nourished by recent disclosures. Fiala and Diamandis argue that… Read More ›
One in 10 people have traces of cocaine or heroin on their fingerprints
Public Release: 22-Mar-2018 University of Surrey Scientists have found that drugs are now so prevalent that 13 per cent of those taking part in a test were found to have traces of class A drugs on their fingerprints – despite… Read More ›
Modern humans interbred with Denisovans twice in history
Public Release: 15-Mar-2018 Cell Press IMAGE: This graphical abstract shows two waves of Denisovan ancestry have shaped present-day humans. Credit: Browning et al./Cell Modern humans co-existed and interbred not only with Neanderthals, but also with another species of archaic humans,… Read More ›
Can pursuing happiness make you unhappy?
Public Release: 12-Mar-2018 Researchers show that aiming to achieve happiness can affect your perception of time Springer People generally like to feel happy, but achieving a state of happiness takes time and effort. Researchers have now found that people… Read More ›
On Twitter, false news travels faster than true stories
Public Release: 8-Mar-2018 Research project finds humans, not bots, are primarily responsible for spread of misleading information Massachusetts Institute of Technology Caption Pictured (left to right): Seated, Soroush Vosoughi, a postdoc at the Media Lab’s Laboratory for Social Machines; Sinan… Read More ›
Our reactions to odor reveal our political attitudes
Public Release: 27-Feb-2018 Stockholm University IMAGE: These are researchers at the smell laboratory at Stockholm university. Jonas Olofsson standing. Credit: Niklas Björling People who are easily disgusted by body odours are also drawn to authoritarian political leaders. A… Read More ›
Survey shows Democrats and Republicans agree on Congress
Public Release: 27-Feb-2018 Members pay attention to wrong groups when voting NORC at the University of Chicago Democrats and Republicans disapprove of Congress because members are paying attention to the wrong people and groups when casting votes, according to a… Read More ›
Fake news ‘vaccine’: Online game may ‘inoculate’ by simulating propaganda tactics
Public Release: 19-Feb-2018 University of Cambridge IMAGE: The Fake News Game as it appears on the screen of a smart phone. The game only take a few minutes to complete. Credit: DROG/www.fakenewsgame.org A new online game puts players in… Read More ›
Workplace alcohol not always a perk for recent college grads seeking jobs
Public Release: 19-Feb-2018 Oregon State University IMAGE: Still image to accompany new research on alcohol in the workplace. Credit: Oliver Day, Oregon State University CORVALLIS, Ore. – Offering alcohol to employees in the workplace may be a trendy… Read More ›
Humans will actually react pretty well to news of alien life
Public Release: 16-Feb-2018 Arizona State University As humans reach out technologically to see if there are other life forms in the universe, one important question needs to be answered: When we make contact, how are we going to… Read More ›
Money only buys happiness for a certain amount
Public Release: 13-Feb-2018 Research looks at how much money makes individuals around the world happy Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — There is an optimal point to how much money it takes to make an individual happy, and that… Read More ›
Super wood could replace steel
Public Release: 7-Feb-2018 New process could make wood as strong as titanium alloys but lighter & cheaper University of Maryland Caption Liangbing Hu, left, and Teng Li, right, are engineers at the University of Maryland, College Park who… Read More ›
How brain’s reward system lessened distress over 2016 election results
Public Release: 5-Feb-2018 ‘Buffering effect’ of 2 key regions shielded some from depression, UCLA psychology study finds University of California – Los Angeles IMAGE: Researchers Adriana Galván, left, and Sarah Tashjian studied activity in two key regions of the… Read More ›
Sharp declines in Life Expectancy being witnessed in many countries
“For countries in this category the mean decadal change in life expectancy dropped continuously from a promising gain of 7.4 years in the 1950s to a worrisome loss of 6.8 years in the 2000s. In other words, the low-lifespan countries… Read More ›
Music really is a universal language
Public Release: 25-Jan-2018 Cell Press Every culture enjoys music and song, and those songs serve many different purposes: accompanying a dance, soothing an infant, or expressing love. Now, after analyzing recordings from all around the world, researchers reporting in… Read More ›
Study finds a third of households — double previous estimates — struggle to get food
Public Release: 24-Jan-2018 Shopping experiences vary widely within same city Ohio State University COLUMBUS, Ohio – The struggle to get enough nutritious food could be far worse than previously understood, according to a new study examining the intersection… Read More ›
Flourishing under an abusive boss? You may be a psychopath, study shows
Public Release: 23-Jan-2018 University of Notre Dame Caption Primary psychopaths benefit under abusive supervisors. Relative to their peers low in primary psychopathy, they felt less anger and more engagement and positive emotions under abusive supervisors Credit: University of Notre… Read More ›
Army researchers make explosive discovery
Public Release: 18-Jan-2018 U.S. Army Research Laboratory IMAGE: Diaminoglyoxime is shown in the foreground, following filtration and drying from the reaction mixture. In the background, DAG is being synthesized in a pair of 500 gram scales. Credit: Photo courtesy… Read More ›
Declining trust in facts, institutions imposes real-world costs on US society, RAND report finds
Public Release: 16-Jan-2018 RAND Corporation Americans’ reliance on facts to discuss public issues has declined significantly in the past two decades, leading to political paralysis and collapse of civil discourse, according to a RAND Corporation report. This phenomenon, referred… Read More ›
Miles Davis is not Mozart: The brains of jazz and classical pianists work differently
Public Release: 16-Jan-2018 The brain activity of jazz pianists differs from those of classical pianists, even when playing the same piece of music Caption In the study all pianists got to see a hand on a screen which played a… Read More ›
Cheops’ pyramid: Is there an iron throne in the newly discovered chamber?
Politecnico di milano Caption North-south section of the Great Pyramid showing (dust-filled area) the hypothetical project of the chamber, in connection with the lower southern shaft. The upper southern shaft does not intersects the chamber (as instead suggested by… Read More ›
Mexican migrant health access much lower after US border crossing
Public Release: 10-Jan-2018 Drexel University Health care access nosedives for Mexican immigrants and migrants once they cross into the United States — and stays that way even if they return to Mexico — a Drexel University public health study… Read More ›
Retaliatory violence between police and citizens is primed by social media Primed for death
Public Release: 10-Jan-2018 Retaliatory violence between police and citizens is primed by social media Primed for death Utah State University Does social media coverage of fatal police-citizen incidents act as a virtual contagion? If a member of the public… Read More ›
One in 5 materials chemistry papers may be wrong, study suggests
Public Release: 14-Dec-2017 Georgia Institute of Technology Caption A new study that compared the results reported in thousands of papers published about the properties of metal organic framework (MOF) materials — which are prominent candidates for carbon dioxide… Read More ›
Dark side of the moon: Motorcycle deaths linked to full moons
Public Release: 11-Dec-2017 Findings show how small distractions can have outsized effects Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs PRINCETON, N.J.–Distracted drivers, like those who text behind the wheel, are a danger to themselves and… Read More ›
Predatory journals: Researchers propose solutions to stop the ‘corruption of science’
Public Release: 4-Dec-2017 The Ottawa Hospital IMAGE: Kelly Cobey, David Moher, Manoj Lalu and Larissa Shamseer of The Ottawa Hospital and the University of Ottawa are proposing concrete solutions to the growing problem of predatory journals. Credit: The… Read More ›
UT Austin professors discover copy of Jesus’ secret revelations to his brother
Public Release: 30-Nov-2017 University of Texas at Austin IMAGE: A page from the Coptic translation of the First Apocalypse of James from the Coptic Museum in Cairo, Egypt. Digitized by Claremont College. Credit: Image of artifact from the… Read More ›
Left-brained: Study suggests conservative Democrats don’t compute for liberal voters
Public Release: 13-Nov-2017 Progressives more likely to scrutinize inconsistency, new research finds University of Nebraska-Lincoln Caption A new MRI study from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln indicates self-identified liberals give more scrutiny to Democrats who deviate from the party… Read More ›
Primary care consultations last less than 5 minutes for half the world’s population
Public Release: 8-Nov-2017 But range from 48 seconds in Bangladesh to 22.5 minutes in Sweden BMJ Primary care consultations last less than 5 minutes for half the world’s population, but range from 48 seconds in Bangladesh to 22.5 minutes… Read More ›
Sheep are able to recognize human faces from photographs
Public Release: 7-Nov-2017 University of Cambridge Sheep can be trained to recognise human faces from photographic portraits – and can even identify the picture of their handler without prior training – according to new research from scientists at the University… Read More ›
Russian scientists have found flaws in popular theories of gravity
Public Release: 26-Oct-2017 Ural Federal University Taking black holes (as a real object) as a test material, scientists from the Ural Federal university (UrFU, Yekaterinburg) found out that a popular theory of gravity which had seemed to work… Read More ›
Sacrificing one life to save others — research shows psychopaths’ force for ‘greater good’
Public Release: 24-Oct-2017 University of Plymouth New research shows that people would sacrifice one person to save a larger group of people – and in addition, the force with which they carry out these actions could be predicted by psychopathic… Read More ›
White working-class Americans feel in nation’s ‘slow lane’, new study shows
Public Release: 19-Oct-2017 Report also finds definitions of white working-class are outdated, and calls for renewed efforts to build cross-racial harmony to avoid a crisis of division Coventry University America’s white working-class communities feel they are being kept in… Read More ›
Mass killings happen randomly, yet rate has remained steady, study finds
Public Release: 18-Oct-2017 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Mass killings may have increasing news coverage, but the events themselves have happened at a steady rate for more than a decade, according to a new study… Read More ›
Whales and dolphins have rich ‘human-like’ cultures and societies
Public Release: 16-Oct-2017 University of Manchester Whales and dolphins (Cetaceans) live in tightly-knit social groups, have complex relationships, talk to each other and even have regional dialects – much like human societies. A major new study, published today in… Read More ›
Most medical students overconfident, underprepared on nutrition guidelines
Public Release: 16-Oct-2017 Research published in the Journal of the American Osteopathic Association examines gap between nutritional knowledge and attitudes in future physicians American Osteopathic Association CHICAGO — October 16, 2017–Ohio University researchers found medical students may be more… Read More ›
What do Americans fear most? Chapman University releases 4th annual Survey of American Fears
Public Release: 11-Oct-2017 Chapman University recently completed its fourth annual Chapman University Survey of American Fears (2017) Chapman University IMAGE: These are American’s Top 10 Fears in 2017. Credit: Chapman University Chapman University recently completed its fourth annual… Read More ›
Insight into our 50-plus lifespan still evolving, genetic study shows
Public Release: 9-Oct-2017 University of Edinburgh It is an evolutionary riddle that has long puzzled scientists … now the quest to find out why we live beyond 50 is being helped by a new genetic study. Researchers seeking to… Read More ›
Perpetrators of genocide say they’re ‘good people’
Public Release: 5-Oct-2017 Study examined testimony of defendants in Rwandan violence Ohio State University COLUMBUS, Ohio – The men who were tried for their role in the 1994 Rwandan genocide that killed up to 1 million people want you… Read More ›
Spanish ‘civil war’ warning as Catalonia independence declaration fears grow
Catalonia ‘civil war’ warning as independence declaration fears grow 5 OCTOBER 2017 • 7:05PM The EU’s budget commissioner has warned of the risk of “civil war” in Catalonia, as fears grew over a looming independence declaration and major banks prepared… Read More ›
Discrimination on the grounds of political ideas prevails over any other
Public Release: 4-Oct-2017 A recent international study, in which lecturers from the UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country participated, confirms greater trust among people sharing an ideology vis-à-vis those who hold different ideas University of the Basque Country Sean Westwood (Dartmouth… Read More ›
Irish scientists can now produce electricity from tears
Public Release: 2-Oct-2017 Pressure generates electricity in crystals of enzyme found in tears, milk and egg whites University of Limerick A team of Irish scientists has discovered that applying pressure to a protein found in egg whites and tears can… Read More ›
Study: There is almost no research on what distinguishes potential terrorists
Public Release: 25-Sep-2017 North Carolina State University A recent analysis of the existing research on factors associated with an individual’s risk for engaging in terrorist activity highlights how little we know about these factors and the need for additional… Read More ›
Social Engineering with Twitter Bots
Public Release: 22-Sep-2017 Twitter bots for good: USC ISI study reveals how information spreads on social media Study co-authored by USC ISI highlights how positive behaviors are reinforced on social networks University of Southern California After an election year marked… Read More ›
Engineering Evil 