From the Stanford University press release by Bjorn Carey via ScienceDaily: If you give people superpowers, will they use those abilities for good? Researchers at Stanford recently investigated the subject by giving people the ability…
From the Kansas State University press release via ScienceDaily: Businesses must deal with weary-eyed office workers who are sitting behind computer screens and watching cat videos, shopping online and updating their Facebook statuses. A Kansas…
From the Concordia University press release: Craig Kielburger was only 12 years old when he travelled to India to see the plight of child laborers first hand. 14-year-old Malala Yousafzai took a stand against the…
From the Public Library of Science press release via ScienceDaily: Chimps can learn more efficient ways to use a tool by watching what others do, according to research published Jan. 30 in the open access…
From the Baylor University press release via ScienceDaily: By allowing employees to participate in a work-sponsored internal social networking site, a company can improve morale and reduce turnover, according to a Baylor University case study…
From the University of York press release via AlphaGalileo: A new study led by scientists at the Universities of York and Bradford has identified the two areas of the brain responsible for our perception of…
From the University of Rochester press release via EurekAlert!: For decades, popular writers have entertained readers with the premise that men and women are so psychologically dissimilar they could hail from entirely different planets. But…
From the University of Michigan press release via ScienceDaily: Young adults in Generation X are as likely to connect with friends, family and co-workers online as they are in person, according to a University of…
From the Institute of Physics (IOP) press release via AlphaGalileo: Magnetic fields produced by the naturally occurring electrical currents in the brain could potentially be used as an objective test for schizophrenia and help to…
From the UCLA press release via HealthCanal: UCLA researchers, in a finding that runs counter to conventional wisdom, have discovered for the first time that a gene thought to express a stress-response protein in all…