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November 30, 2023
Twin Research Indicates That That a Vegan Diet Improves Cardiovascular Health
Nov. 30, 2023 — A recent trial of identical twins comparing vegan and omnivore diets found that a vegan diet improves overall cardiovascular ...
Brittle Stars Can Learn Just Fine -- Even Without a Brain
Nov. 29, 2023 — We humans are fixated on big brains as a proxy for smarts. But headless animals called brittle stars have no brains at all and still manage to learn through experience, new research reveals. These shy marine creatures have no brain to speak of -- ...
An Astronomical Waltz Reveals a Sextuplet of Planets
Nov. 29, 2023 — Astronomers have found a key new system of six transiting planets orbiting a bright star in a harmonic rhythm. This rare property enabled the team to determine the planetary orbits which initially appeared as an unsolvable ...
Astronomers Discover Disc Around Star in Another Galaxy
Nov. 29, 2023 — In a remarkable discovery, astronomers have found a disc around a young star in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a galaxy neighboring ours. It's the first time such a disc, identical to those forming planets in our own Milky Way, has ever been found ...
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Lost Brain Function Restored in Mice After Stroke
Nov. 30, 2023 — Researchers have succeeded in restoring lost brain function in mouse models of stroke using small molecules that in the future could potentially be developed into a stroke recovery ...
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Soccer Heading Linked to Measurable Decline in Brain Function
Nov. 29, 2023 — New research links soccer heading -- where players hit the ball with their head -- to a measurable decline in the microstructure and function of the brain over a two-year ...
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Clever Dosage Control Mechanism of Biallelic Genes
Nov. 29, 2023 — Researchers have uncovered a mechanism that safeguards the biallelic expression of haploinsufficient genes, shedding light on the importance of having two copies of each chromosome. A study identified the epigenetic regulator MSL2 an 'anti-monoallelic' factor that maintains biallelic gene dosage. This discovery not only reveals a communication system between parental alleles but also points to ...
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Understanding Subjective Beliefs Could Be Vital to Tailoring More Effective Treatments for Depression and ADHD
Nov. 28, 2023 — Taking into account whether people believe they are receiving a real treatment or a fake one (placebo) could provide better insights that could help improve interventions for conditions such as depression and ...
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Durable Plastic Pollution Easily, Cleanly Degrades With New Catalyst
Nov. 30, 2023 — Found in fishing nets, carpet, clothing, Nylon-6 is a major contributor to plastic pollution, including ocean pollution. Now, chemists have developed a new catalyst that quickly, cleanly and completely breaks down Nylon-6 in a matter of minutes -- without generating harmful byproducts. Even better: The process does not require toxic solvents, expensive materials or extreme conditions, making it ...
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New Astrophysics Model Sheds Light on Additional Source of Long Gamma-Ray Bursts
Nov. 29, 2023 — Cutting-edge computer simulations combined with theoretical calculations are helping astronomers better understand the origin of some of the universe's most energetic and mysterious light shows -- gamma-ray bursts, or GRBs. The new unified model confirms that some long-lasting GRBs are created in the aftermath of cosmic mergers that spawn an ...
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Building Blocks for Life Could Have Formed Near New Stars and Planets
Nov. 29, 2023 — While life on Earth is relatively new, geologically speaking, the ingredients that combined to form it might be much older than once thought. The simplest amino acid, carbamic acid, could have formed alongside stars or planets within interstellar ices. The findings could be used to train deep space instruments like the James Webb Space Telescope to search for prebiotic molecules in distant, ...
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How Do You Make a Robot Smarter? Program It to Know What It Doesn't Know
Nov. 28, 2023 — Engineers have come up with a new way to teach robots to know when they don't know. The technique involves quantifying the fuzziness of human language and using that measurement to tell robots when to ask for further directions. Telling a robot to pick up a bowl from a table with only one bowl is fairly clear. But telling a robot to pick up a bowl when there are five bowls on the table generates ...
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Climate: Why Disinformation Is So Persistent
Nov. 30, 2023 — Melting of glaciers, rising sea levels, extreme heat waves: the consequences of climate change are more visible than ever, and the scientific community has confirmed that humans are responsible. Yet studies show that a third of the population still doubts or disputes these facts. The cause is disinformation spread by certain vested interests. To try and prevent this phenomenon, a team has ...
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Antarctic Glacier Retreating Rapidly
Nov. 28, 2023 — Scientists are warning that apparently stable glaciers in the Antarctic can 'switch very rapidly' and lose large quantities of ice as a result of warmer oceans.    Their finding comes after glaciologists used satellites to track the Cadman Glacier, which drains into Beascochea Bay, on the west Antarctic ...
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A New Bacterial Species from a Hydrothermal Vent Throws Light on Their Evolution
Nov. 29, 2023 — A new bacterial species discovered at the deep-sea hydrothermal vent site 'Crab Spa' provides a deeper understanding of bacterial ...
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Landscape Dynamics Determine the Evolution of Biodiversity on Earth
Nov. 29, 2023 — A landmark study into the geological timescale distribution of sediment and nutrients over 500 million years shows that species biodiversity on Earth is driven by landscape ...
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Health News
November 30, 2023
From the First Bite, Our Sense of Taste Helps Pace Our Eating
Nov. 22, 2023 — When you eagerly dig into a long-awaited dinner, signals from your stomach to your brain keep you from eating so much you'll regret it -- or so it's been ...
US Men Die 6 Years Before Women, as Life Expectancy Gap Widens
Nov. 14, 2023 — We've known for more than a century that women outlive men. But new research shows that, at least in the United States, the gap has been widening for more than a ...
AI Faces Look More Real Than Actual Human Face
Nov. 13, 2023 — White faces generated by artificial intelligence (AI) now appear more real than human faces, according to new research. In the study, more people thought AI-generated white faces were human than the faces of real people. The same wasn't true for ...
Any Activity Is Better for Your Heart Than Sitting -- Even Sleeping
Nov. 9, 2023 — Replacing sitting with as little as a few minutes of moderate exercise a day tangibly improves heart health, according to new ...
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Phasing out Fossil Fuels Could Save Millions of Lives
Nov. 30, 2023 — Scientists provide new evidence to motivate rapid fossil fuel phaseout. The science team determined exposure to ambient air pollution and its health impacts using an updated atmospheric composition model, a newly developed relative risk model and recent satellite-based fine particle data. They estimated all-cause and disease-specific mortality and attributed them to emission categories. They show ...
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Children Who Play Baseball Risk Elbow Injury
Nov. 30, 2023 — Youth baseball players are prone to elbow pain and injuries, including repetitive overuse changes and fractures, based on the maturity of their bones, according to a new ...
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AI May Aid in Diagnosing Adolescents With ADHD
Nov. 29, 2023 — Using artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze specialized brain MRI scans of adolescents with and without attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), researchers found significant differences in nine brain white matter tracts in individuals with ...
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Common Headaches Tied to Neck Inflammation
Nov. 29, 2023 — Researchers have identified objective evidence of how the neck muscles are involved in primary headaches, according to a new ...
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Researchers Discover New Classes of RNA for Learning and Memory
Nov. 30, 2023 — Researchers have discovered a new way ribonucleic acid (RNA) impacts fear-related learning and memory. Researchers demonstrated that a noncoding RNA known as Gas5 coordinates the trafficking and clustering of RNA molecules inside the long processes of neurons, and orchestrating neuronal excitability in real time that contributes to learning and memory. This study builds on earlier findings this ...
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What Makes Sustainable Consumption So Difficult
Nov. 30, 2023 — When it comes to self-discipline, psychological research traditionally focuses on individual responsibility. Some researchers believe this is too short-sighted. Self-discipline doesn't work without effective ...
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Optimistic Thinking Linked With Lower Cognitive Abilities
Nov. 30, 2023 — Optimistic thinking has long been immortalized in self-help books as the key to happiness, good health and longevity but it can also lead to poor decision making,  with particularly serious implications for people's financial ...
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Scientist Discovers Potential Brain Link Between Stress, Emotional Eating
Nov. 27, 2023 — Scientists describe how they identified a molecule that may trigger over-consumption of comfort foods after a threatening ...
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Vertically Farmed Greens Taste as Good as Organic Ones
Nov. 30, 2023 — Consumer skepticism about the taste of vertically farmed greens is widespread. But a scientific taste test shows that respondents rate greens grown vertically and without soil as just as good as organic ...
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Are Healthy Foods Automatically Sustainable, Too?
Nov. 29, 2023 — Perceptions about sustainability and healthy food choices are closely linked, a new study ...
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Rise of Microplastics Discovered in Placentas of Hawaii Mothers
Nov. 29, 2023 — A new study examined placentas donated by women who delivered in Hawaii from 2006 to 2021, and found the presence of microplastic particles in the placenta. ...
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Pulling an All-Nighter? Don't Follow With an Important Decision
Nov. 29, 2023 — With little insight into the impact of a lack of sleep on risky decision-making at the neuroimaging level, researchers found a 24-hour period of sleep deprivation significantly impacted individuals' decision-making processes by dampening neural responses to the outcomes of their ...
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Physical/Tech News
November 30, 2023
Telescope Array Detects Second Highest-Energy Cosmic Ray Ever
Nov. 23, 2023 — In 1991, an experiment detected the highest-energy cosmic ray ever observed. Later dubbed the Oh-My-God particle, the cosmic ray’s energy shocked astrophysicists. Nothing in our galaxy had the power to produce it, and the particle had more energy ...
AI System Self-Organizes to Develop Features of Brains of Complex Organisms
Nov. 20, 2023 — Scientists have shown that placing physical constraints on an artificially-intelligent system -- in much the same way that the human brain has to develop and operate within physical and biological constraints -- allows it to develop features of the ...
Dwarf Galaxies Use 10-Million-Year Quiet Period to Churn out Stars
Nov. 21, 2023 — If you look at massive galaxies teeming with stars, you might be forgiven in thinking they are star factories, churning out brilliant balls of gas. But actually, less evolved dwarf galaxies have bigger regions of star factories, with higher rates of ...
NASA's Webb Reveals New Features in Heart of Milky Way
Nov. 21, 2023 — The latest image from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope shows a portion of the dense center of our galaxy in unprecedented detail, including never-before-seen features astronomers have yet to explain. The star-forming region, named Sagittarius C ...
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Researchers Show an Old Law Still Holds for Quirky Quantum Materials
Nov. 30, 2023 — Long before researchers discovered the electron and its role in generating electrical current, they knew about electricity and were exploring its potential. One thing they learned early on was that metals were great conductors of both electricity and heat. And in 1853, two scientists showed that those two admirable properties of metals were somehow related: At any given temperature, the ratio of ...
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What Was Thought of as Noise, Points to New Type of Ultrafast Magnetic Switching
Nov. 29, 2023 — Researchers discover a new type of ultrafast magnetic switching by investigating fluctuations that normally tend to interfere with experiments as ...
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Artificial Intelligence Paves Way for New Medicines
Nov. 29, 2023 — Researchers have developed an AI model that can predict where a drug molecule can be chemically ...
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Greener Solution Powers New Method for Lithium-Ion Battery Recycling
Nov. 29, 2023 — Used lithium-ion batteries from cell phones, laptops and a growing number of electric vehicles are piling up, but options for recycling them remain limited mostly to burning or chemically dissolving shredded batteries. Researchers have improved on approaches that dissolve the battery in a liquid solution in order to reduce the amount of hazardous chemicals used in the process. This simple, ...
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Composition of Asteroid Phaethon
Nov. 28, 2023 — Asteroid Phaethon, which is five kilometers in diameter, has been puzzling researchers for a long time. A comet-like tail is visible for a few days when the asteroid passes closest to the Sun during its orbit. However, the tails of comets are usually formed by vaporizing ice and carbon dioxide, which cannot explain this tail. The tail should be visible at Jupiter's distance from the ...
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A Gamma-Ray Pulsar Milestone Inspires Innovative Astrophysics and Applications
Nov. 28, 2023 — Scientists have announced the discovery of nearly 300 gamma ray ...
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Solar Activity Likely to Peak Next Year
Nov. 28, 2023 — Researchers have discovered a new relationship between the Sun's magnetic field and its sunspot cycle, that can help predict when the peak in solar activity will occur. Their work indicates that the maximum intensity of solar cycle 25, the ongoing sunspot cycle, is imminent and likely to occur within a ...
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Hydrogen Detected in Lunar Samples, Points to Resource Availability for Space Exploration
Nov. 21, 2023 — Researchers have discovered solar-wind hydrogen in lunar samples, which indicates that water on the surface of the Moon may provide a vital resource for future lunar bases and longer-range space ...
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A Single Bitcoin Transaction Could Cost as Much Water as a Backyard Swimming Pool
Nov. 29, 2023 — Cryptocurrency mining uses a significant amount of water amid the global water crisis, and its water demand may grow further. Researchers provides the first comprehensive estimate of Bitcoin's water use. He warns that its sheer scale could impact drinking water if it continues to operate without constraints, especially in countries that are ...
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Quantum Tool Opens Door to Uncharted Phenomena
Nov. 29, 2023 — Scientists have developed a new tool for the measurement of entanglement in many-body systems and demonstrated it in experiments. The method enables the study of previously inaccessible physical phenomena and could contribute to a better understanding of quantum ...
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Nearly 400,000 New Compounds Added to Open-Access Materials Database
Nov. 29, 2023 — New technology often calls for new materials -- and with supercomputers and simulations, researchers don't have to wade through inefficient guesswork to invent them from ...
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Network of Robots Can Successfully Monitor Pipes Using Acoustic Wave Sensors
Nov. 29, 2023 — An inspection design method and procedure by which mobile robots can inspect large pipe structures has been demonstrated with the successful inspection of multiple defects on a three-meter long steel pipe using guided acoustic wave ...
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Environment News
November 30, 2023
Neanderthals Were the World's First Artists, Research Reveals
Nov. 21, 2023 — Recent research has shown that engravings in a cave in La Roche-Cotard (France), which has been sealed for thousands of years, were actually made by Neanderthals. The findings reveal that the Neanderthals were the first humans with an appreciation ...
Evolution of Taste: Early Sharks Were Able to Perceive Bitter Substances
Nov. 13, 2023 — New genetic data show that humans and sharks share bitter taste receptors, even though their evolutionary pathways separated nearly 500 million years ...
'Cooling Glass' Blasts Building Heat Into Space
Nov. 13, 2023 — Researchers aiming to combat rising global temperatures have developed a new 'cooling glass' that can turn down the heat indoors without electricity by drawing on the cold depths of space. The new technology, a microporous glass coating, can lower ...
Found at Last: Bizarre, Egg-Laying Mammal Finally Rediscovered After 60 Years
Nov. 9, 2023 — A long-beaked echidna named after Sir David Attenborough and last seen by scientists in 1961 has been photographed for the first time in an Indonesian tropical forest. An international team of ...
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Small Marine Creatures Swimming in Plastic Chemicals Not Reproducing
Nov. 30, 2023 — Plastic waste in the water might be stopping -- or interrupting -- some shrimp-like creatures from reproducing. In a unique study, the ability of 'shrimp like' creatures to reproduce successfully was found to be compromised by chemicals found in everyday plastics.   ...
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Money to Burn: Wealthy, White Neighborhoods Losing Their Heat Shields
Nov. 30, 2023 — White, wealthy neighborhoods in the LA area -- and likely around the world -- are about to start feeling the same heat that has plagued poorer, Hispanic neighborhoods for generations. A new study shows the protective effect of income has largely eroded over the past 40 years, as landscape plants can't keep up with the pace of climate ...
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Study Gives Grandmother Gecko a Place of Honor -- And a New Name
Nov. 29, 2023 — Paleontologists have identified a new fossil lizard, found in the western United States, which they say was an ancestor of modern geckos. And they gave it a name that honors the lead researcher's grandmother and great aunt. The discovery of the new species, which they named Helioscopus dickersonae, suggests that gecko ancestors appeared in North America much earlier than previously ...
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Nano-Sized Cell Particles Are Promising Intervention Tool in Treating Infectious Diseases
Nov. 28, 2023 — Extracellular vesicles were found to inhibit the viral infection of COVID-19 and potentially other infectious ...
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Antarctica's Ancient Ice Sheets Foreshadow Dynamic Changes in Earth's Future
Nov. 30, 2023 — Identifying how and why Antarctica's major ice sheets behaved the way they did in the early Miocene could help inform understanding of the sheets' behavior under a warming climate. Together, the ice sheets lock a volume of water equivalent to more than 50 meters of sea level rise and influence ocean currents that affect marine food webs and ...
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Scientists Create Framework to Guide Development and Assessment of Urban Climate Action Plans
Nov. 29, 2023 — With the world projected to be highly urbanized by 2050, cities are encouraged to take urgent climate actions to mitigate and adapt to the threats of climate change. As climate change intensifies and urbanization increases rapidly, local governments are expected now more than ever to lead climate action planning. However, studies show the ...
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Identifying Australia's Most Elusive Birds
Nov. 29, 2023 — Scientists have analyzed more than 3.8 million volunteer hours of birdwatching data to identify Australia's most elusive ...
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Being Prepared for Storm Surges on the Baltic Sea Coast
Nov. 29, 2023 — The record storm surge in October 2023 caused severe damage to the German Baltic coast. Effective adaptation scenarios to rising sea levels are therefore becoming increasingly urgent. In two recent studies, researchers have modeled both the flooding extent along the Baltic Sea coastal areas and two possible upgrades for current dike lines in high resolution. They modeled various storm surge and ...
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600 Years of Tree Rings Reveal Climate Risks in California
Nov. 29, 2023 — The San Joaquin Valley in California has experienced vast variability in climate extremes, with droughts and floods that were more severe and lasted longer than what has been seen in the modern record, according to a new study of 600 years of tree rings from the ...
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Unknown Animals Were Leaving Bird-Like Footprints in Late Triassic Southern Africa
Nov. 29, 2023 — Ancient animals were walking around on bird-like feet over 210 million years ago, according to a new ...
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Early Humans Hunted Beavers, 400,000 Years Ago
Nov. 29, 2023 — Around 400,000 years ago, early humans hunted beavers as a food resource and possibly also for their pelts.The authors show that Middle Pleistocene humans systematically fed on these smaller animals and hence had a more varied diet than thus far known. Previously, the opinion was that that hominins of this age primarily subsisted on large mammals, such as bovids and ...
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How Shifting Climates May Have Shaped Early Elephants' Trunks
Nov. 28, 2023 — Researchers have provided new insights into how ancestral elephants developed their dextrous trunks.  A study of the evolution of longirostrine gomphotheres, an ancestor of the modern day elephant, suggests moving into open-land grazing helped develop their coiling and grasping ...
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Society/Education News
November 30, 2023
Humans Are Disrupting Natural 'Salt Cycle' on a Global Scale, New Study Shows
Oct. 31, 2023 — A new paper revealed that human activities are making Earth's air, soil and freshwater saltier, which could pose an 'existential threat' if current trends continue. Geologic and hydrologic processes ...
Window to Avoid 1.5°C of Warming Will Close Before 2030 If Emissions Are Not Reduced
Oct. 30, 2023 — Without rapid carbon dioxide emission reductions, the world has a 50% chance of locking in 1.5°C of warming before ...
Increased West Antarctic Ice Sheet Melting 'Unavoidable'
Oct. 23, 2023 — The West Antarctic Ice Sheet will continue to increase its rate of melting over the rest of the century, no matter how much we reduce fossil fuel use, according to new research. A substantial acceleration in ice melting likely cannot now be avoided, ...
Climate-Driven Extreme Heat May Make Parts of Earth Too Hot for Humans
Oct. 9, 2023 — If global temperatures increase by 1 degree Celsius (C) or more than current levels, each year billions of people will be exposed to heat and humidity so extreme they will be unable to naturally cool themselves, according to interdisciplinary ...
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Remote Collaborations Deliver Fewer Scientific Breakthroughs
Nov. 29, 2023 — Remote teams are less likely to make breakthrough discoveries compared to those who work onsite, according to new research. The researchers' key finding was that, while remote collaboration has the potential to deliver new and creative scientific ideas through easier access to a global knowledge pool, it is harder for such teams to integrate effectively to deliver ...
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Bees Are Still Being Harmed Despite Tightened Pesticide Regulations
Nov. 29, 2023 — A new study has confirmed that pesticides, commonly used in farmland, significantly harm bumblebees one of the most important wild pollinators. In a huge study spanning 106 sites across eight European countries, researchers have shown that despite tightened pesticide regulations, far more needs to be ...
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Psychological Science Can Help Counter Spread of Misinformation
Nov. 29, 2023 — Debunking, 'prebunking,' nudging and teaching digital literacy are several of the more effective ways to counter misinformation, according to a new ...
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Commitments Needed to Solve Aviation's Impact on Our Climate
Nov. 28, 2023 — Researchers could find no simple solution to limiting non-CO2 emissions from ...
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Creativity in the Age of Generative AI: A New Era of Creative Partnerships
Nov. 20, 2023 — Generative AI (e.g., ChatGPT) has propelled AI into the mainstream, raising concerns about job displacement and creative work. Experts now emphasize a need to focus on 'co-creativity,' the human-AI interaction instead. Extensive research is needed for comprehending co-creativity which is crucial for the future development of ...
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How to Stay on Task
Nov. 28, 2023 — Our ability to pay attention to tasks—a key component of our everyday lives—is heavily influenced by factors like motivation, arousal and alertness. Maintaining focus can be especially challenging when the task is boring or ...
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Kids Who Feel Their Parents Are Less Reliable Take Fewer Risks Vital to Learning and Growth
Nov. 27, 2023 — The researchers studied decisions that more than 150 children ages 10 to 13 made while playing games that offered opportunities to risk a little and explore for potential ...
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Extra Practice Blending Letter Sounds Helps Struggling Readers
Nov. 27, 2023 — New research has shown that extra practice in blending printed letter sounds can help struggling beginner readers (age 4-5) learn to ...
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Exhaustion Caused by Video Conferencing Demonstrated on a Neurophysiological Level
Nov. 13, 2023 — Using EEG and ECG data, researchers were able to demonstrate that video conferences and online education formats lead to greater fatigue than face-to-face ...
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Contrary to Common Belief, Artificial Intelligence Will Not Put You out of Work
Nov. 2, 2023 — New research is providing insights for business leaders on how work experience affects employees interacting with ...
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Power of the Pictogram: Researcher Finds That Sorted Graphics Make Consumers Feel Optimistic
Oct. 31, 2023 — Sometimes, how the information is presented is as important as the information itself. Graphics, icons, and pictograms are increasingly popular methods of presenting information to consumers in direct, memorable, and easily understandable ...
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Having a Bad Boss Makes You a Worse Employee
Oct. 31, 2023 — Researchers found that employees who prioritize career advancement are strongly affected by abusive leadership while employees who prioritized job security remained just as likely to take charge after experiencing abusive supervision. Employees who prioritize advancement tend to hunker down and reduce taking-charge behavior after experiencing abusive ...
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