From the Biomed Central press release via ScienceDaily: If a train is travelling a distance of 55 miles at 150mph, how long will it take to reach its destination? If the thought of having to…
From the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center press release via EurekAlert!: New research from Norris Cotton Cancer Center estimates, for the first time, the impact of an R rating for movie smoking. James Sargent, MD, co-director of…
From the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behaviour via EurekAlert!: Research to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior (SSIB), the foremost society for research into…
From the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) press release via ScienceDaily: Photographs of faces may not be adequate proof of a person’s identity and this could have serious implications for the accuracy of passport…
From the Oxford University press release via Physorg: A report shows that Germans still prefer a newspaper, while online news has overtaken print and TV news as the most frequently used medium in the UK…
From the Case Western Reserve University press release via ScienceDaily: It is intuitive that most people would be less likely to take risks after an unexpected loss. What happens after a surprising win? It turns…
From the San Francisco State University press release via EurekAlert!: New to meditation and already thinking about quitting? You may have simply chosen the wrong method. A new study published online July 7 in EXPLORE:…
From the Duke University press release via ScienceDaily: Although many areas of the human brain are devoted to social tasks like detecting another person nearby, a new study has found that one small region carries…
From the University of the West of England press release via MedicalXpress: Students are often expected to speak knowledgably in front of groups of unfamiliar people as part of their education. The assessment of student…
From the Universiteit van Amsterdam press release via AlphaGalileo: In a forthcoming issue of Topics in Cognitive Science researchers from the University of Amsterdam (UvA) argue that at least two, seemingly trivial musical skills can…