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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...

Countering COVID-19 Impacts on Children From Low-Income Households

May 27, 2020
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Baltimore, MD — The COVID-19 pandemic has magnified the social, educational and health care disparities already plaguing the nearly 40 million Americans the U.S. Census Bureau estimates are living...

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...

COVID-19 and Role of Tissue Engineering

May 12, 2020
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New Rochelle, NY — Tissue engineering has a unique set of tools and technologies for developing preventive strategies, diagnostics, and treatments that can play an important role during the ongoing...

Sustainable Recovery of Nutrients from Urine

May 7, 2020
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New York, NY — Ammonia is a key component of fertilizer and vital in supporting plant growth and ultimately providing food for populations around the world. It is also a major pollutant that, after...

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...

Study Indicates Artificial Intelligence Could Help Stem Tide of School Violence

April 29, 2020
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Cincinnati, OH — By leveraging the basics of artificial intelligence technology now used to predict risk for suicide or other mental health issues, researchers developed an AI system that analyzes...

Race and Income Shape COVID-19 Risk, Says Study

April 29, 2020
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Boston, MA — Underlying conditions that increase risk of severe illness or death from COVID-19 are much more common among Black, Native American, and lower-income people in the United States. The...

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...

Removing Novel Coronavirus from Water Cycle

April 6, 2020
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Riverside, CA — Scientists know that coronaviruses, including the SARS-CoV-19 virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic, can remain infectious for days — or even longer — in sewage and...

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,...

Institute Invites Public to Join App-Based Detect Study, Leveraging Wearable Data to Potentially Flag Onset of Viral Illnesses

March 28, 2020
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La Jolla, CA — The Scripps Research Translational Institute has launched an app-based research program that will analyze participants’ wearable health data—including heart rates, sleep and activity...

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