Researchers show that people do indeed have a ‘type’ when it comes to dating, and that despite best intentions to date outside that type — for example, after a bad …read more Source:: Science
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How to enhance or suppress memories
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•New research shows memories are pliable if you know which regions of the brain’s hippocampus to stimulate — a finding that could someday enable personalized treatment for people with PTSD, …read more Source:: Science
Study identifies dog breeds, physical traits that pose highest risk of biting children
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•Nearly five million people are bitten by dogs each year in the United States, and children are at a much higher risk than adults. Dog bites can cause significant psychological …read more Source:: Science
Flu virus’ best friend: Low humidity
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•Researchers have pinpointed a key reason why people are more likely to get sick and even die from flu during winter months: low humidity. …read more Source:: Science
Nature’s dangerous decline ‘unprecedented,’ species extinction rates ‘accelerating’
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•Nature is declining globally at rates unprecedented in human history — and the rate of species extinctions is accelerating, with grave impacts on people around the world now likely, warns …read more Source:: Science
Brains of blind people adapt to sharpen sense of hearing, study shows
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•Research uses functional MRI to identify two differences in the brains of blind individuals — differences that might be responsible for their abilities to make better use of auditory information. …read more Source:: Science
Eelectrostimulation can improve working memory in people
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•In a groundbreaking study, researchers demonstrate that electrostimulation can improve the working memory of people in their 70s so that their performance on memory tasks is indistinguishable from that of …read more Source:: Science
Psychologists find smiling really can make people happier
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•Smiling really can make people feel happier, according to a new article. A team of psychologists combined data from 138 studies testing more than 11,000 participants and found that facial …read more Source:: Science
Rise of religion pre-dates Incas at Lake Titicaca
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•An ancient group of people made ritual offerings to supernatural deities near the Island of the Sun in Lake Titicaca, Bolivia, about 500 years earlier than the Incas, according to …read more Source:: Science
High-fructose corn syrup boosts intestinal tumor growth in mice
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•Consuming a daily modest amount of high-fructose corn syrup — the equivalent of people drinking about 12 ounces of a sugar-sweetened beverage daily — accelerates the growth of intestinal tumors …read more Source:: Science