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Sahara is a storm killer
The bad news: Dust from the Sahara Desert in Africa -- totaling a staggering 2 to 9 trillion pounds worldwide -- has been almost...
According to researchers, a person’s tendency to anticipate feeling guilty is the strongest predictor...
It turns out your mother was right: guilt is a powerful motivator.
New research from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business finds that...
According to researchers, people find it easier to lie in a foreign language than...
Most people find it easier to lie in a foreign language than in their native tongue. However, things are different when telling the truth:...
Sleep is an autonomic process and is not always under our direct, voluntary control
Awake or asleep, we are basically under the regulation of two biological processes: sleep homeostasis, commonly known as 'sleep pressure', and the circadian rhythm,...
Sometimes, it doesn’t pay to be a do-gooder, according to a new University of...
Highly cooperative and generous people can attract hatred and social punishment, especially in competitive circumstances, the research found.
"Most of the time we like the...
Greening vacant urban land significantly reduces feelings of depression and improves overall mental health...
Greening vacant urban land significantly reduces feelings of depression and improves overall mental health for the surrounding residents, researchers from the Perelman School of...
Sydney scientists has made a groundbreaking discovery in telomere biology, with implications for conditions...
The research project was led by Dr. Tony Cesare, Head of the Genome Integrity Unit at Children's Medical Research Institute (CMRI) at Westmead, in...
Wrinkled skin and hair loss are hallmarks of aging. What if they could be...
Keshav Singh, Ph.D., and colleagues have done just that, in a mouse model developed at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
When a mutation leading...
Microsoft Releases PowerShell Core for Linux as a Snap Package
Microsoft's love for Linux continues…
Microsoft has released its command-line shell and scripting language PowerShell Core for Linux operating system as a Snap package, making...
Research suggest a new method for protecting the increasingly complex and connected power grid...
Not long ago, getting a virus was about the worst thing computer users could expect in terms of system vulnerability.
But in our current age...
Machine learning to quickly and consistently detect and analyze microscopic-scale radiation damage to materials...
Artificial intelligence is now so smart that silicon brains frequently outthink humans.
When artificial intelligence pairs up with machine vision, computers can accomplish seemingly incredible...
Scientists (MPI-P) have developed a new method to enable miniature drug-filled nanocarriers to dock...
Scientists at the Mainz University Medical Center and the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (MPI-P) have developed a new method to enable miniature...
A team of researchers has found that giving the metabolite succinate to mice fed...
In their paper published in the journal Nature, the group explains how they came to study the metabolite and why it helped prevent obesity...
Kids who possess tendencies toward perfectionism and excessive self-control are twice as likely as...
Studying young children, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis found that kids who possess tendencies toward perfectionism and excessive self-control...
Medical researchers find innovative drug to treat sickle cell disease (SCD)
Medical researchers have identified a key signaling protein that regulates hemoglobin production in red blood cells, offering a possible target for a future innovative...
