From the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston press release via EurekAlert!: An FDA-approved drug initially used to treat insulin resistance in diabetics has shown promise as a way to improve cognitive performance in…
From the Wiley press release via EurekAlert!: A new study from Sweden reveals that having low peer status in adolescence is a strong risk factor for regular and heavy smoking in adulthood. Researchers from Stockholm…
From the Public Library of Science press release via EurekAlert!: In the 1960s and 1970s, classic social psychological studies were conducted that provided evidence that even normal, decent people can engage in acts of extreme…
From the University College London press release via EurekAlert!: The first in-depth investigation of whether youthful happiness leads to greater wealth in later life reveals that, even allowing for other influences, happy adolescents are likely…
From the Yale University press release via EurekAlert!: Yale School of Medicine researchers have found that children born to mothers who smoked more than one pack per day during pregnancy struggled on tests designed to…
From the Pennsylvania State University press release via EurekAlert!: Whether bloggers are writing to change the world, or just discussing a bad break-up, they may get an extra boost of motivation from traffic-measuring and interactive…
From the Indiana University press release via EurekAlert!: The approach of the Indianapolis Discovery Network for Dementia — with contributions from family members, community advocates, health care systems and researchers — improves dementia care and…
From the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine press release via EurekAlert!: Understanding how any disease progresses is one of the first and most important steps towards finding treatments to stop it. This has been…
From the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign press release via EurekAlert!: With a mate and a nest to protect, the male threespined stickleback is a fierce fish, chasing and biting other males until they go…
From the University of Bonn press release via EurekAlert!: Flirting brings women and men closer. But the “social distance” ensures that they will keep a certain spatial distance from each other. Researchers under the leadership…