Real men don’t say ‘cute’
Credit: Social Psychological and Personality Science, 2016. What's in a tweet? From gender to education, the words used on social media carry impressions to others....
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New study shows racial/ethnic variations in quitline reach among US smokers
Quitlines, hotlines that provide free cessation services for smokers, appear to be reaching minority populations that typically underutilize cessation treatments and have high smoking prevalence,...
New protein provides critical link between aging and age-dependent disease
The discovery of a novel protein that links aging and age-dependent retinal diseases could lead to potential new treatments for conditions that cause sight loss...
Scripps Florida scientists discover clues to altered brain wiring in autism
Credit: The Scripps Research Institute (Photo by James McEntee.) JUPITER, FL - November 15, 2016 - Autism is an agonizing puzzle, a complex mixture of...
Scientists ‘plug in’ to circuitry behind sex in male fruit flies
Researchers from the University of Oxford have identified a small neural circuit in male fruit flies that has evolved to allow them to perform the...
Cow goes moo: Artificial intelligence-based system associates images with sounds
The cow goes "moo." The pig goes "oink." A child can learn from a picture book to associate images with sounds, but building a computer...
Leishmaniasis infection on the rise in US ecotourists, soldiers
ARLINGTON, Va. - Driven by burgeoning ecotourism and military campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan, a parasitic infection called leishmaniasis is showing up in more U.S....
Global declines in adolescent childbearing related to national income, education expenditures
New York -- Researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health found that an important explanation for declining rates of global adolescent fertility is...
Unhealthy weight management practices associated with non-medical use of prescription drugs among adolescents
Ann Arbor, MI, November 15, 2016 - Non-medical use of prescription drugs (NMUPD) is a serious public health concern in the U.S. Investigators from the...
Special brain activities while mother and autism spectrum disorder child gaze each other
Credit: Kanazawa University Special activities in the brains while mother and her child with autism spectrum disorder are gazing each other have been discovered by...
Asian-Americans are at high risk for diabetes but rarely get screened
Less than half of Asian Americans who ought to be screened for type 2 diabetes actually get tested, according to a study published Nov. 15,...
Researchers find association between gene mutation and rare heart disease
AURORA, Colo. (Nov. 15, 2015) - A strong association between a genetic mutation and a rare kind of heart muscle disease has been discovered by...
Why you may want to keep your Movember moustache out of the beer froth
Credit: Centre for Addictions Research of BC at the University of Victoria Alcohol is known to be a risk factor for breast cancer and at...
Testing for HPV types 16 and 18 may better inform referral to colposcopy
1. Testing for HPV types 16 and 18 in women with high risk HPV may better inform referral to colposcopy Abstract: http://annals.org/aim/article/doi/10.7326/M16-2735 URLs go live...
Forest fires in Sierra Nevada driven by past land use
Credit: Alan H. Taylor Forest fire activity in California's Sierra Nevada since 1600 has been influenced more by how humans used the land than by...