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Cannabidiol reduces the frequency of seizures in patients with a severe form of epilepsy
Results from a study published in the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology may help explain why – a chemical component of marijuana with no psychoactive...
Dog owners experience a reduction in negative mood and feelings of loneliness
A new University of Sydney trial lends weight to the expression ‘man’s best friend,’ showing a sample of new dog owners saw a significant...
Higher temperatures increase emergency department visits for mental illness and suicide rates
Economists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and California Polytechnic State University have found that higher temperatures increase emergency department visits for mental illness,...
Boston Dynamics : Spot robots aren’t evil and won’t be turned into weapons
As videos of robot-like dogs made by Boston Dynamics go viral on the internet, the humanoids' uncanny abilities have also sparked worries that they...
A horse will blink less and twitch its eyelids more when it’s under mild...
How can you tell when a horse is feeling stressed?
It’s all in the eyes and the way their eyelids twitch, University of Guelph...
Déjà vu and the postdictive bias
For many, déjà vu is just a fleeting, eerie sensation that “I’ve been here before.”
For others, it gets even eerier: In that moment...
There are not enough evidence to support the view that violent video games lead...
A new study finds that there is not enough information to support the claim that violent video games lead to acts of violence.
The Contemporary Economic...
Researchers have identified two molecules that might be linked to Kallmann syndrome
A team of neuroscientists led by Professor Christiana Ruhrberg (UCL, UK) and Professor Anna Cariboni (University of Milan, Italy) have found two molecules that...
Incorporating sex and gender could help improve scientific research
Thinking about sex and gender would help scientists improve their research, a new article published today argues.
Writing in a special 150th anniversary edition of Nature,...
Smoking increases risk of depression and schizophrenia
It is well-known that smoking is much more common amongst people with mental illness – especially depression and schizophrenia.
However, most studies that have...
Recycling technologies for end-of-life lithium ion batteries (LIBs) are not keeping pace with the...
Recycling technologies for end-of-life lithium ion batteries (LIBs) are not keeping pace with the rapid rise of electric vehicles, storing up a potentially huge...
We optimize the learning when we fail 15% of the time
To learn new things, we must sometimes fail. But what’s the right amount of failure?
New research led by the University of Arizona proposes...
HPV : Mailed self-sampling kits help more women get screened for the cancer
Signaling a potential major change in cervical cancer screening options for American women, a new study found that mailed self-sampling kits that test for...
The first attempt in the United States to use a gene editing tool called...
The first attempt in the United States to use a gene editing tool called CRISPR against cancer seems safe in the three patients who...
Vitamin D influences the behaviour of melanoma cells by making them less aggressive
Vitamin D influences the behaviour of melanoma cells in the lab by making them less aggressive, Cancer Research UK scientists have found.
The researchers from...
