New study and a review of decades of data pushes the memory clock back over a year, but the study confirms everyone is different. On…
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Catalytic converters cut down on toxic car emissions, and, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, they’re one of the greatest environmental inventions of all…
Americans are drinking less beer, but the beer they’re drinking has a higher alcohol content, according to new research from the University of Pittsburgh Graduate…
Underage drinking. Credit: Rutgers Center of Alcohol & Substance Use Studies Underage youth consumed $17.5 billion worth, or 8.6 percent, of the alcoholic drinks sold…
During the 180th ASA Meeting, Arezoo Talebzadeh from Ghent University will show how a personalized soundscape can help those with dementia by providing clues regarding…
Researchers studying how we make moral judgments found that people more concerned about catching COVID-19 were more disapproving of the wrong-doings of others, whatever they…
Online shopping was associated with lower spending on certain unhealthy, impulse-sensitive foods. When shopping online, participants surveyed spent more money, purchased more items, and spent…
University of Cambridge experiment evaluated the effect of human decisions on climate reconstructions. The first double-blind experiment analyzing the role of human decision-making in climate…
A SoftBank Robotics Pepper robot was used in the two robot conditions. Pepper, 1.21-meter-tall with 25 degrees of freedom, is a medium-sized humanoid robot designed…
“We observed that representations of social information extracted form visual scenes are formed in the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex: based on their distinctiveness we are able…
African fish called mormyrids communicate using pulses of electricity. Credit: Tsunehiko Kohashi American writer and humorist Mark Twain, a master of language and noted lecturer,…
The study involved 375 budding service dogs from the Canine Companions service dog organization. Credit: Courtesy of Emily Bray/University of Arizona Dogs may have earned…
A team of researchers led by the University of Cambridge and University of Utrecht examined trends in daily crime counts before and after COVID-19 restrictions…
The elevated pup-retrieval test was used to assess the willingness of mice to care for infants in risky/dangerous situations. See the accompanying video for the…
Activity in prefrontal cortex provides clues about if a white lie has selfish motives. You may think a little white lie about a bad haircut…
Waking up just one hour earlier could reduce a person’s risk of major depression by 23%, suggests a sweeping new genetic study published on May…
Pied tamarin (Saguinus bicolor). Credit: Photograph by Tainara Sobroza New study finds one species will adopt another species’ calls in shared territory. New research has…
Around the world and within the U.S., the percentage of people wearing masks during the Covid-19 pandemic has varied enormously. A new study co-authored by…
In a time of a global crisis such as the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, it is easy to note how people move through different phases to…