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COVID-19 Provides Rare Opportunities for Studying Natural and Human Systems

July 29, 2020
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Stanford, CA — Like the legendary falling apple that hit Isaac Newton and led to his groundbreaking insight on the nature of gravity, COVID-19 could provide unintended glimpses into how complex Earth...

Making Balanced Decisions

July 16, 2020
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München, Germany — Animals have an innate preference for certain scents and tastes. Attractive scents are linked to things like good food. Less attractive scents – that of spoiled food, for example...

Second COVID-19 Wave could be Avoided If Social Distancing and the Use of Face Masks are Maintained

June 23, 2020
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Barcelona, Spain — Individual behaviour has a significant effect on preventing a large second wave of COVID-19 infections. In fact, maintaining social distancing and other interventions such as the...

Poor Sleep Significantly Linked with Teenage Depression

June 18, 2020
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Reading, UK — Teenagers who experience very poor sleep may be more likely to experience poor mental health in later life, according to a new study. In a paper published in the Journal of Child...

Loneliness Alters Your Brain’s Social Network

June 16, 2020
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Washington, DC — Social media sites aren’t the only things that keep track of your social network — your brain does, too. But loneliness alters how the brain represents relationships, according...

Protecting Scientific Diversity

June 15, 2020
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Göttingen, Germany — In the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, scientists are facing great challenges because they have to reorient, interrupt or even cancel research and teaching. A team of international...

Boys’ Poor Reading Skills might Help Explain Higher Education Gender Gap

June 9, 2020
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Columbia, MO — Researchers at the University of Missouri and the University of Essex in the United Kingdom found boys’ poor reading skills in adolescence, combined with the social attitudes about...

Do COVID-19 Apps Protect Your Privacy?

June 9, 2020
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Champaign, IL — Mobile apps are helping track the spread of COVID-19 to contain the outbreak, but the apps also raise concerns about personal privacy. Information sciences professor Masooda Bashir...

Child’s Brain Activity Reveals Their Memory Ability

May 26, 2020
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Washington, DC — A child’s unique brain activity reveals how good their memories are, according to research recently published in JNeurosci. When you scramble to remember a phone number as...

Observing the Freely Behaving Brain in Action

May 21, 2020
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München, Germany — Scientists working at caesar have developed a small head-mounted microscope that allows access to the inner workings of the brain. The new system enables measurement of activity...

New and Diverse Experiences Linked to Enhanced Happiness, New Study Shows

May 19, 2020
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New York, NY — New and diverse experiences are linked to enhanced happiness, and this relationship is associated with greater correlation of brain activity, new research has found. The results, which...

How Experiencing Traumatic Stress Leads to Aggression

May 19, 2020
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Bethesda, MD — Traumatic stress can cause aggression by strengthening two brain pathways involved in emotion, according to research recently published in JNeurosci. Targeting those pathways via deep...

New Insights into How Genes Control Courtship and Aggression

April 30, 2020
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La Jolla, CA — Fruit flies, like many animals, engage in a variety of courtship and fighting behaviours. Now, Salk scientists have uncovered the molecular mechanisms by which two sex-determining genes...

COVID-19: Downside of Social Distancing

April 27, 2020
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Munich, Germany — When faced with danger, humans draw closer together. Social distancing thwarts this impulse. Professor Ophelia Deroy from Ludwigs-Maximilians Universitaet in Munich (LMU) and colleagues...

Key Brain Region for Controlling Binge Drinking has been Found

April 20, 2020
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Charleston, SC — A team of National Institutes of Health-funded researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina has found that deactivating a stress-signalling system in a brain area known...

Aha! + Aaaah: Creative Insight Triggers Neural Reward Signal

April 14, 2020
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Philadelphia, PA — Creativity is one of humanity’s most distinctive abilities and enduring mysteries. Innovative ideas and solutions have enabled our species to survive existential threats and...

Follow Your Gut

April 7, 2020
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Lisboa, Portugal — Food has something of a “magic hold” on us, as certain flavours and textures can pretty much dictate what we do. Just think about the spicy dish that keeps bringing you...

What are You Looking At? ‘Virtual’ Communication in The Age of Social Distancing

March 30, 2020
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Boca Raton, FL — From health care to education to media, social distancing across the globe due to coronavirus (COVID-19) has created the need to conduct business “virtually” using Skype,...

Not a ‘Math Person’? You may be Better at Learning to Code than You Think

March 3, 2020
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Seattle, WA — Want to learn to code? Put down the math book. Practice those communication skills instead. New research from the University of Washington finds that a natural aptitude for learning...

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