01 November, 2018

Study finds Massachusetts’ public accommodations nondiscrimination laws that include gender identity do not affect the number or frequency of criminal incidents in restrooms, locker rooms, or changing rooms. In addition, reports of privacy and safety violations in these places are exceedingly rare.


Merely desiring to alter your personality is not enough, and may backfire unless you take concrete action to change, suggests a new study. Failing to support one’s goals with concrete action appears to backfire, leading to personality drift in the opposite direction to what was desired.


Babies born to fathers of an “advanced paternal age,” which roughly equates to older than 35, were at a higher risk for adverse birth outcomes, such as low birth weight, seizures and need for ventilation immediately after birth, finds a new Stanford study in the BMJ (n = 40,529,905).


Just 23% of the world's landmass can now be considered wilderness, with the rest, excluding Antarctica, lost to the direct effects of human activities, finds the first comprehensive fine-scale map of the world's remaining marine and terrestrial wild places in the journal Nature.


People who regularly take cocaine cut with the animal anti-worming agent levamisole demonstrate impaired cognitive performance and a thinned prefrontal cortex. Researchers are calling for public health protection authorities to expand their drug-checking programs


"Schrödinger's Bacterium" Could Be a Quantum Biology Milestone - A recent experiment may have placed living organisms in a state of quantum entanglement


Media coverage drove public support for Trump in the 2016 Republican primaries (not vice versa)