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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 particularly among older men who are being treated […]
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 (CDC) report that finds the prevalence of autism […]
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, also known as marijuana, has been shown to […]
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 users Aalto University IMAGE: The scatterplots display how […]
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 long been thought to be the most important […]
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 it is time to abandon the Nobel Prize […]
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 never using them. But there is no easy […]
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, the mysterious Denisovans. While developing a new genome-analysis […]
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 who pursue happiness often feel like they do […]
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 Aral, the David Austin Professor of Management at […]
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 survey showed a strong connection between supporting a […]
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 recently released survey conducted by researchers from Stanford […]
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 the shoes of an aspiring propagandist to give […]
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 perk of employment, but it doesn’t appear to […]
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 handle it? Will we feel threatened and react […]
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 amount varies worldwide, according to research from Purdue […]
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 have found a way to make wood more […]
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 brain’s reward system: the nucleus accumbens and the […]
“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 on average went from experiencing big gains to […]
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 Current Biology on January 25 show that vocal […]
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 between hunger and the types of foods found […]
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 Dame When you hear the term “psychopath,” you […]
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 Eric C. Johnson ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. (Jan. […]
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 to as “Truth Decay,” is defined by increasing […]
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 sequence of chords on a piano scattered with […]
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 the section) because, when viewed in plan, it […]
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 found. The study, published in the Journal of […]
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 is killed by police, does it lead to […]
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 adsorption and other separations — suggests the replicability […]
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 to others. Even a brief, momentary glance away […]
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 Ottawa Hospital The team of researchers behind a […]
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 Nag Hammadi Library, Oxford University. AUSTIN, Texas — […]
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 line — and are more likely to evaluate […]
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 in Sweden, reveals the largest international study of […]
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 of Cambridge. The study, published today in the […]
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 perfectly at the cosmological level (a subclass of […]
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 traits. The study, led by the University of […]
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 the “slow lane” of social mobility while other […]
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 by University of Illinois researchers. Furthermore, some types […]
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 Nature Ecology & Evolution (Monday 16th October), has […]
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 confident than knowledgeable when it comes to nutrition. […]
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 Chapman University Survey of American Fears (2017). The […]
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 explain why people – unlike some species – […]
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 to know that they’re actually very good people. […]
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 to relocate their headquarters. As another day passed […]
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 College) figures as the lead researcher of this […]
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 generate electricity. The researchers from the Bernal Institute, […]
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 research in this area. “It’s important to have […]
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 by heated exchanges and the distribution of fake […]
Public Release: 12-Sep-2017 University of Toronto TORONTO, ON – Kids who are praised for being smart, or who are told they have a reputation for being smart, are more likely to be dishonest and cheat, a pair of studies from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education […]
