From the Florida Atlantic University press release: From health care to education to media, social distancing across the globe due to coronavirus (COVID-19) has created the need to conduct business “virtually” using Skype, web conferencing,…
From the U.S. Army Research Laboratory press release: Team disagreements might be the key to helping Soldiers identify objects in battle, researchers say. While studies on combat identification typically focus on how technology can help…
From the Duke University press release: The stereotype of grumpy old people apparently doesn’t hold up under closer inspection. A new study from Duke and Vanderbilt University psychologists finds that older people are generally more…
From the Carnegie Mellon University press release: We live in a time of unprecedented access to information. And in this era of sheltering-in-place around the nation and the globe, the desire for news may be…
From the University of Kansas press release: In the midst of a global pandemic, a lot of people rightly will be reluctant to offer food from their plate to another person, or accept such an…
From the Karolinska Institutet press release: People continuously exposed to air pollution are at increased risk of dementia, especially if they also suffer from cardiovascular diseases, according to a study at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden…
From the Society for Neuroscience press release: Stress restructures the brain by halting the production of crucial ion channel proteins, according to research in mice recently published in JNeurosci. Stress harms the brain and body in…
From the University of California – Riverside press release: Scientists at the University of California, Riverside, have explored the relationship between parental alcohol consumption — before conception in the case of fathers and during pregnancy…
From the Yale University press release: Working memory, the ability to hold a thought in mind even through distraction, is the foundation of abstract reasoning and a defining characteristic of the human brain. It is…
From the Frontiers press release: Are we the best at judging our own attractiveness? New research out in Frontiers in Robotics and AI shows that we might not be after all. Researchers from the Experimental Virtual Environments…