Aug. 16, 2016 For many decades scientists have believed that people have an 'irrational optimism bias' -- a tendency to underestimate their chances of negative experiences, while overestimating their ...
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Aug. 16, 2016 Our increasing reliance on the Internet and the ease of access to the vast resource available online is affecting our thought processes for problem solving, recall and learning. In a new article, ...
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Aug. 15, 2016 Researchers have just achieved a spectacular breakthrough in cancer research. They have developed new nanorobotic agents capable of navigating through the bloodstream to administer a drug with ...
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Aug. 12, 2016 Humans have evolved a disproportionately large brain as a result of sizing each other up in large cooperative social groups, researchers have ...
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Aug. 11, 2016 When it comes to setting organizational and personal goals, making a backup plan has been seen as a sensible way to deal with uncertainty -- to be prepared if things don't go as expected. ...
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Aug. 11, 2016 If you worry that people today are using social media as a crutch for a real social life, a study will set you at ease. A new study found that people are actually quite adept at discerning the ...
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Aug. 11, 2016 Neurons that fire together really do wire together, says a new study, suggesting that the three-pound computer in our heads may be more malleable than we ...
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Aug. 11, 2016 A group of biomedical engineers use functional near-infrared spectroscopy to measure mental workload as subjects navigate a college ...
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Aug. 11, 2016 Without having tasted a new juice mix before, an orangutan in a Swedish zoo has enough sense to know whether it will taste nice or not based on how he recombined relevant memories from the past. Only ...
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Aug. 11, 2016 Eight people who have spent years paralyzed from spinal cord injuries have regained partial sensation and muscle control in their lower limbs after training with brain-controlled robotics, according ...
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Aug. 11, 2016 People benefit more from exercise when they believe it will have a positive effect, new research indicates. A psychologist and his team have conducted a study demonstrating that test subjects derive ...
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Aug. 10, 2016 Could a small drop in the alcohol content of beer or other drinks reduce the harmful effects of alcohol in society at large? A new review, which explores the evidence, suggests this approach may be ...
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Aug. 10, 2016 Recording smart phone video 'selfies' of tooth-brushing can help people learn to improve their oral health care techniques, according to a new ...
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Aug. 9, 2016 Measurements demonstrated that the brain activity of people who dream during NREM sleep, compared to people who do not dream in NREM sleep, is closer to brain activity of awake ...
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Aug. 9, 2016 The transient form of genetic information, the RNA, is processed in a similar manner in the cells of both organisms. These mechanisms seem to be at work throughout the whole animal kingdom. ...
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Aug. 9, 2016 Experimental psychologists have developed their own magic trick to explore human perception. 32 percent of people were convinced by a magician that they'd just seen an object disappear, even ...
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Aug. 8, 2016 Older adults are better at interpreting the correct slope of a hill than young adults, which researchers believe is because of greater life ...
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Aug. 8, 2016 Australian genomics researchers have announced the development of Sequins -- synthetic 'mirror' DNA sequences that reflect the human genome. This intuitive new technology, which can be used ...
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Aug. 4, 2016 Watching a video of a harmful or violent act being committed can provide useful evidence of the circumstances surrounding the action. But new research shows that watching that same video in slow ...
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Aug. 4, 2016 In a new study, researchers found that the background music in shark documentaries affects viewers' perceptions of sharks. The researchers suggest that ominous background music could hinder ...
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