The death rate linked to extreme temperatures will increase significantly under global warming of 2°C, finds a report by researchers from UCL and the University of Reading. Temperature-related mortal

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Identifying psychosocial factors that could serve as treatment targets to promote living longer and in good health EMBARGOED by the Journal of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social

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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Many people use facial recognition technology on their personal devices, to quickly and securely enter a password or complete an online transaction. But when that same technolog

Cheaper, cleaner, faster - new technology for better lithium batteries Cheaper, cleaner, faster - new technology for better lithium batteries Researchers from Monash University have taken another st

Dead trees are fuel for wildfires; BYU researchers are using those trees as fuel for power plants. Photo by Joanne Francis, Unsplash Dead trees are fuel for wildfires; BYU researchers are using those

People who experience high inflammatory reactivity to socially stressful situations are more likely to develop depressive symptoms, according to a new study published in Psychological Science. The fin

Very early in the pandemic doctors began tracking the association between COVID-19 disease severity and a patient’s blood type. Now researchers have validated those early observations, finding several

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Abstract Judgements of wrongdoing in humans often hinge upon an assessment of whether a perpetrator acted out of free choice: whether they had more than one option. The classic inhibitors of free cho

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Here’s a simple and important fact for the fight against climate change: Wealthy people consume more energy and, consequently, are responsible for more greenhouse gas emissions than less wealthy peopl

Migrating birds use information extracted from the Earth’s magnetic field to target the same breeding grounds year after year, with the field’s inclination angle, in particular, acting as a “stop sign

Genomes are made up of thousands of individual pieces – genes – which are expressed at different levels. Researchers at EMBL have shed light on how the placement of a gene affects its expression, as w

The study, “Family Psychosocial Assets, Child Behavioral Regulation, and Obesity,” recently appeared in the journal Pediatrics. In the article, Rollins and Lori Francis, associate professor of biobeha

There are hundreds of billions of stars in our galaxy, though only about 5,000 are visible to the naked eye. Under ideal conditions and far from city lights, you can see about half of them on any give

I have some good news and some bad news. But then, some more good news. It's about a scientific study on happiness -- and the surprising thing that actually seems to make it harder for people to achi

Fire ants are a textbook example of collective behavior, capable of behaving as individuals, and also banding together to form floating rafts in response to flooding. Now a pair of mechanical engineer

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Research published in the journal Depression & Anxiety provides evidence that neurocognitive abnormalities are related to difficulties in social connection among people with posttraumatic stress disor

Pressures to publish, perverse incentives, financial interest and gender are amongst the most commonly discussed risk factors for scientific misconduct. However, evidence of their association with act

Admixture has played a prominent role in shaping patterns of human genomic variation, including gene flow with now-extinct hominins like Neanderthals and Denisovans. Here, we describe a novel probabil

The apolipoprotein E gene APOE ε4 (APOE4) is known to be a significant genetic risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease; however, several studies have indicated that the association between APOE4 and Alzhe

By combining CRISPR technology with a protein designed with artificial intelligence, it is possible to awaken individual dormant genes by disabling the chemical “off switches” that silence them. Resea

Shoppers are likely to save money in the run up to the holiday season if they use standard shopping trolleys, new research has found. The study, led by Bayes Business School, explores how using the s

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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — As climate change nudges the global temperature higher, there is rising interest in the maximum environmental conditions like heat and humidity to which humans can adapt. New Pe

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A team of international researchers has found that the Tsimane indigenous people of the Bolivian Amazon experience less brain atrophy than their American and European peers. The decrease in their brai

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A new weight loss shot has just been recommended to the United Kingdom by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). NICE recommended the weight loss injection following success dur

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