No evidence to support link between violent video games and behaviour - Researchers at the University of York have found no evidence to support the theory that video games make players more violent.
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LED lights found to kill coronavirus efficiently, quickly, and cheaply, a global first in fight against COVID-19. The finding suggests the UV-LEDs can be installed in air conditioning and water systems. It requires less than half a minute to destroy more than 99.9% of coronaviruses.
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Korean scientists developed a technique for diagnosing prostate cancer from urine within only 20 minutes with almost 100% accuracy, using AI and a biosensor, without the need for an invasive biopsy. It may be further utilized in the precise diagnoses of other cancers using a urine test.
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MAGA Republicans are twice as likely to strongly/very strongly agree that a civil war is coming, and triple more likely to believe it is needed, compared to non-MAGA, non-Republicans. People who are authoritarian or racist were also more likely to expect a civil war, and that it is needed.
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Girls are better than boys at detecting their own ADHD symptoms. Boys tended to self-report fewer ADHD symptoms compared to reports by their parents and clinicians. In contrast, girls’ self-reported ADHD symptoms did not differ from ratings provided by their parents and clinicians.
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Girls are better than boys at detecting their own ADHD symptoms. Boys tended to self-report fewer ADHD symptoms compared to reports by their parents and clinicians. In contrast, girls’ self-reported ADHD symptoms did not differ from ratings provided by their parents and clinicians.
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Certain sounds associated with illness—like coughing and sniffling—may interfere with learning by distracting people during educational tasks. The human brain may be particularly sensitive to cues that signal the presence of disease, which could divert attention away from other tasks.
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Certain sounds associated with illness—like coughing and sniffling—may interfere with learning by distracting people during educational tasks. The human brain may be particularly sensitive to cues that signal the presence of disease, which could divert attention away from other tasks.
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Americans burdened by student loan debt are not retreating from the political process. A new study finds that individuals with student loan debt are more likely to vote, donate to candidates, and participate in other forms of political action than their counterparts without student loan debt.
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Researchers find “forever chemicals” PFAS impact the developing male brain - Early life exposure to PFHxA may increase anxiety-related behaviors and memory deficits in male mice. This sensitivity may be why males are more often diagnosed with neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism and ADHD.
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Researchers find “forever chemicals” PFAS impact the developing male brain - Early life exposure to PFHxA may increase anxiety-related behaviors and memory deficits in male mice. This sensitivity may be why males are more often diagnosed with neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism and ADHD.
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How much we express love predicts how much we feel loved in daily life. Increases in expressing love led to increased feelings of being loved; however, increases in felt love did not lead to increases in expressing love. People who experienced more feelings of love had higher levels of flourishing.
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US military produces the largest quantity of greenhouse gas emissions of all of the world's institutions, and cutting their spending could result in a meaningful reduction in energy consumption comparable to the annual energy usage of the US state of Delaware, or the entire nation of Slovenia.
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Creativity in autism may stem from co-occurring ADHD, not autism itself. After controlling for cognitive ability and ADHD, the researchers found that autistic adults did not differ from nonautistic adults in their ability to generate novel ideas.
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Myth busted: Men don’t sleep through baby cries after all. New study debunks the myth of women's special ability to hear baby crying. Researchers found only minimal differences between men's and women's hearing, but mothers still handle nighttime childcare three times as often as fathers.
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Myth busted: Men don’t sleep through baby cries after all. New study debunks the myth of women's special ability to hear baby crying. Researchers found only minimal differences between men's and women's hearing, but mothers still handle nighttime childcare three times as often as fathers.
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People who overestimate how many others share their political views are more likely to hold populist attitudes and mistrust democratic institutions. These “false consensus beliefs” are strongly linked to support for the idea that a unified “will of the people” should prevail over political elites.
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Drinking a modest dose of peppermint tea improved cognitive performance compared to a placebo. Drinkers showed greater improvements in episodic memory, working memory, short-term word recall, and visuospatial memory compared to the placebo group. These differences were statistically significant.
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Drinking a modest dose of peppermint tea improved cognitive performance compared to a placebo. Drinkers showed greater improvements in episodic memory, working memory, short-term word recall, and visuospatial memory compared to the placebo group. These differences were statistically significant.
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Psychedelic compound blurs boundary between self and others in the brain, study finds. The compound changes both early visual perception and later self-referential processing, effectively weakening the brain’s usual distinction between self and others.
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U.S. preschoolers exposed to potentially harmful chemicals. Urine samples from 201 children found 96 chemicals in at least 5, 48 chemicals in over half and 34 chemicals in more than 90%. Many of these chemicals are known or suspected to interfere with hormones, brain development and immune function.
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Scientists discover certain species of microbe in the human gut can absorb PFAS, the toxic and long-lasting ‘forever chemicals.’ When 9 of these species were introduced into guts of mice to ‘humanise’ their microbiome, the bacteria rapidly accumulated PFAS eaten which were then excreted in faeces.
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Body fat percentage was a stronger and more consistent predictor of attractiveness for men than either body mass index or shoulder-to-waist ratio. The most attractive male bodies had approximately 13 to 14% body fat, a level that corresponds closely with what is considered metabolically healthy.
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Body fat percentage was a stronger and more consistent predictor of attractiveness for men than either body mass index or shoulder-to-waist ratio. The most attractive male bodies had approximately 13 to 14% body fat, a level that corresponds closely with what is considered metabolically healthy.
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Inflammation, considered a hallmark of aging, may not be a universal human experience, but may be a byproduct of industrialised lifestyles. A new study did not detect increased inflammation with age in Indigenous, non-industrialised populations and chronic age-related diseases were also minimal.
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