31 July, 2018

Changing your thought patterns is key to overcoming insomnia, according to new psychology research, which found that mindfulness-based therapy and cognitive therapy were both equally effective.


The Peculiar Math That Could Underlie the Laws of Nature


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Brain scans suggest women soccer players sustain more damage heading the ball than men


Study finds poor communication between nurses and doctors, which is one of the primary reasons for patient care mistakes in the hospital. One barrier is that the hospital hierarchy puts nurses at a power disadvantage, and many are afraid to speak the truth to doctor.


Tiny crystals discovered in the Murchison meteorite found to be some of the oldest minerals in the solar system. At over 4.5 billion years old, the hibonite crystals formed before the Earth, and contain evidence of the Sun's very active and energetic early life.


Adding an already clinically approved component of medicinal cannabis to standard chemotherapy can improve survival times threefold in mice with pancreatic cancer


Cannabidiol, or CBD, a non-psychoactive substance found in cannabis plants, might boost treatments for patients with pancreatic cancer, research in mice has suggested, and if replicated in humans, could result in patients having their lives extended by a matter of years.


Political and business leaders who change their moral stance are perceived not as brave, but hypocritical and ineffective, finds new research (total N=5,552). The results suggest that abandoning a moral position will almost certainly cost you.


Tricking the brain into eating less by serving food on a smaller plate may not work. A new study debunks the popular diet trick based on the Delbouef illusion, and suggests that when people are food-deprived, they're more likely to identify a portion size accurately, no matter how it is served.


Mild Dehydration Hard To Notice, But Can Still Impair Mental Performance. A growing body of evidence finds that being just a little dehydrated is tied to a range of subtle effects — from mood changes to muddled thinking.


New research finds that kids of working moms end up being as happy as those of stay-at-home moms, and that adult daughters, but not sons, of employed mothers are more likely to be employed and, if employed, are more likely to hold supervisory responsibility, work more hours, and earn higher incomes.


People who live with depression have low blood levels of a specific molecule, new medical research has revealed. It's called acetyl-L-carnitine, and those with particularly severe, treatment-resistant or childhood onset depression were found to have the lowest levels.


Depression linked to low blood levels of acetyl-L-carnitine. Naturally produced in the body, acetyl-L-carnitine is also widely available in drugstores, supermarkets and health food catalogues as a nutritional supplement.


FDA warns doctors against 'vaginal rejuvenation' treatments, says procedures pose serious risks


Scientists have discovered a new geometric shape, scutoids, previously unknown to science or mathematics, and it comes from our skin; more specifically, epithelial cells, the building blocks of the structural tissue forming our external (and internal) skin layers.


New study finds that trigger warnings increase peoples' perceived emotional vulnerability to trauma, increase peoples' belief that trauma survivors are vulnerable, and increase anxiety to written material perceived as harmful.


30 July, 2018

According to 2015 Health Related Behavior Survey (which occurs once every 3-4 years), 68.2 percent of active-duty service members across all branches said they perceived military culture as supportive of drinking, and 1/3rd of service members were found to be binge drinkers.


Acetyl-L-carnitine deficiency in patients with major depressive disorder


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Homo sapiens developed a new ecological niche that separated it from other hominins - New study argues that the greatest defining feature of our species is not 'symbolism' or dramatic cognitive change but rather its unique ecological position as a global 'general specialist'.


2,500 Scientists Warn Against the Border Wall's Huge Environmental Cost - According to new research supported by thousands of international scientists, a southern border wall would be a disaster for America’s and Mexico’s wildlife and natural environment.


Pungent tasting substance in ginger reduces bad breath. The pungent compound 6-gingerol, a constituent of ginger, stimulates an enzyme contained in saliva ¬– an enzyme which breaks down foul-smelling substances. It thus ensures fresh breath and a better aftertaste.


Fungi drug their cicada hosts with psilocybin and an amphetamine, likely to increase their ability to spread.


Mars doesn't have enough CO2 for terraforming


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Mars doesn't have enough CO2 for terraforming

Largest king penguin colony has shrunk nearly 90%


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Largest king penguin colony has shrunk nearly 90%

The world’s second-largest penguin colony has collapsed in just a few decades, falling from half a million breeding pairs in the 1980s to just tens of thousands in 2017 - a 90% drop.


New study finds most common cause (33%) of anaphylaxis cases in allergy clinic in Tennessee to be from tick bite meat allergy, due to an increase in tick population since 2006, and the ability to recognize tick bites as the source of "alpha gal" allergy to red meat, including beef, pork and venison.


A team of scientists from the University of California, Irvine has found evidence of significant mass loss in East Antarctica’s Totten and Moscow University glaciers, which, if they fully collapsed, could add 5 meters (16.4 feet) to the global sea level.


A study involving nearly 3,000 primary-school students showed that learning philosophy at an early age can improve children’s social and communication skills, team work, resilience, and ability to empathise with others.


Researchers have used an experimental drug, D-PDMP, to reverse signs of aging, including hair loss, hair greying and skin damage in mice, linked to a diet high in fat and cholesterol.


New type of nanowire-based nanostructure enables light to perform logic functions, allowing simple addition and subtraction operations. The study, the first to demonstrate nanoscale all-optical logic circuits, provides a vital step in the journey towards true optical computing.


Biology's Most Efficient Shape: Scientists examining how cells are packed together in epithelial membranes have discovered a previously unclassified shape that minimizes energy use and maximizes stability, which they have named the "scutoid".


Cannabis intoxicated eye witnesses performed as accurately as sober ones at identifying a suspect if he was present. They were also more confident with a stronger correlation between confidence and accuracy, which may be due to the effect of cannabis on increasing introspection and internal focus.


A regimen of low-dose aspirin potentially may reduce plaques in the brain, which will reduce Alzheimer's disease pathology and protect memory: Aspirin Induces Lysosomal Biogenesis and Attenuates Amyloid Plaque Pathology in a Mouse Model of Alzheimer's Disease via PPARα


Physicists Are Testing a Mysterious Force That Exists Between Superconducting Wires


A new study suggests that sweet potatoes, first domesticated in the America's, may have arrived in Polynesia over 100,000 years ago, long before humans arrived there


New research suggests that many doctors are still prescribing opioids — even for relatively minor injuries. For instance, the authors found that a quarter of patients treated for ankle sprains between 2011 and 2015 left the hospital with an opioid prescription.


29 July, 2018

Evidence is growing in support of a contentious theory that a virus causes weight gain and obesity, but not everyone is convinced. A study shows for the first time that this virus, called adenovirus-36, is more often found in people who are obese than in those of a healthier weight.


Study found shootings committed with large-caliber firearms are much more likely to result in a fatality than those with a smaller caliber. Authors say replacing large- and medium-caliber guns with small-caliber guns would've reduced gun homicides by 39.5% in Boston during the study period.


Study found that all of the advantages supposedly conferred by private education evaporate when socio-demographic characteristics are factored in. There was also no evidence found to suggest that low-income children or children enrolled in urban schools benefit more from private school enrollment.


A treatment that worked brilliantly in monkeys infected with the simian AIDS virus did nothing to stop HIV from making copies of itself in humans.


Psychologists are trying to figure out why we don’t go to sleep (even when we want to) - As bedtime approaches, it’s likely that both biology and self-discipline are important players in your struggle to turn in.


A new Ebola species has been found in bats in Sierra Leone


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We intuitively use more emotional language to enhance our powers of persuasion. The research shows that people tend toward appeals that aren’t simply more positive or negative but are infused with emotionality, even when they’re trying to sway an audience that may not be receptive to such language.


According to a new study led by researchers from NASA's Ames Research Center, Martian soil is roughly 1,000 times drier than some of the driest regions on Earth.


Scientists establish new method to create synthetic fossils. Specimens subjected to the treatment closely resemble exceptional fossils, not just visually, but also microscopically. The method will allow for the testing of many hypotheses regarding organic preservation in fossils and sediments.


Astronomers observe star speeding close to the massive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way for the first time. It was accelerated to a speed of 8,000 km/s, or 2.7% of the speed of light, causing it to be subject to effects predicted by Einstein’s theory of general relativity.


U of G Study Is First to Find Evidence That Leopard Geckos Can Make New Brain Cells


Each Additional Baby Ages a Mother's Cells by as Much as 2 Years, New Study Finds.


Americans feel positively toward medical marijuana, but the research isn’t there yet, according to a new national study from the Annuals of Internal Medicine (N= 16,280), which may be a result of the current drug policies in the US that makes it difficult to research marijuana.


A study has found that younger children seem to make slightly better decisions than older children. The older children get, the more they tend to ignore some of the information available to them when making judgements, which though efficient can also lead to mistakes.