Studies help understand why some people are so sure they’re right
Dogmatic individuals hold confidently to their beliefs, even when experts disagree and evidence contradicts them. New research from Case Western Reserve University may help explain...
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Research at Lake Baikal — for the protection of a unique ecosystem
Credit: V. Pavlichenko, ISU Lake Baikal formed between 25 and 30 million years ago and contains around 20 per cent of all unfrozen fresh water...
A new bird which humans drove to extinction discovered in Azores
Credit: Pau Oliver Inside the crater of a volcano on Graciosa Island in the Azores archipelago, in the Atlantic Ocean, an international team of researchers...
Quantifying lower limb muscle weakness in Osteogenesis Imperfecta type IV
Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI) is a heritable disorder characterized by increased bone fragility. In OI Type IV muscle weakness has important functional consequences. Children and adolescents...
Inventions by young KTU researchers can identify early stages of flatfeet condition
Credit: KTU A team of researchers at Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) have designed a device for measuring pressure on human feet. Its applications vary...
Stanford researchers engineer 3-D hydrogels for tissue-specific cartilage repair
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, N.Y., July 26, 2017--Unlike the one-size-fits-all, homogeneous approach to tissue engineering for cartilage replacement, a new study...
Physicists gain new insights into nanosystems with spherical confinement
Credit: Ill./©: Arash Nikoubashman, Mainz University Theoretical physicists led by Professor Kurt Binder and Dr. Arash Nikoubashman at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) in Germany...
How bacteria maintain and recover their shape
Credit: (Image courtesy of Harvard SEAS) Bacteria come in all shapes and sizes -- some are straight as a rod, others twist like a corkscrew....
Risk for bipolar disorder associated with faster aging
New King's College London research suggests that people with a family history of bipolar disorder may 'age' more rapidly than those without a history of...
Scientists propose new approach to hitting the gym
James Cook University sports scientists are warning that fatigue from weight training can carry over to endurance training and the two activities must be better...
Atlantic/Pacific ocean temperature difference fuels US wildfires
Credit: Chikamoto Y. et al. An international team of climate researchers from the US, South Korea and the UK has developed a new wildfire and...
Do we need separate his and hers medicine cabinets?
Credit: Photo: Jan-Peter Kasper/FSU Jena (Jena, Germany) Perhaps you have come across the titles 'Men are from Mars, women are from Venus' or 'Why men...
Humans identify emotions in the voices of all air-breathing vertebrates
Amphibians, reptiles, mammals -- all of them communicate via acoustic signals. And humans are able to assess the emotional value of these signals. This has...
User research at BER II: Lupin roots observed in the act of drinking
Credit: Created by Christian Tötzke © University of Potsdam Soil scientists led by Prof. Sascha Oswald from the University of Potsdam regularly conduct experiments at...
Large-mouthed fish was top predator after mass extinction
Credit: Artwork: Nadine Bösch The most catastrophic mass extinction on Earth took place about 252 million years ago - at the boundary between the Permian...
