“Previous studies have shown that economic conditions affect mood – people would expect this, it's more obvious,” said Alok Kumar, the Gabelli Asset Management…

“We found that exposure to a high-fat diet before birth modifies gene expression in the livers of offspring so they are more likely to overproduce glucose,…

Scientists have known for years that playing violent video games causes players to become more aggressive. The findings of a new University of Missouri (MU)…

Yet global warming may affect the capacity of trees to store carbon by altering forest nitrogen cycling, concludes a study led by Jerry Melillo of the Marine…

For the visually impaired, navigating city streets or neighborhoods has constant challenges. And most such people still must rely on a very rudimentary…

It is common knowledge that bats and dolphins echolocate, emitting bursts of sounds and then listening to the echoes that bounce back to detect objects. What…

But long commuting times also entail less time for family and friends and can lead to stress and health problems. Pair relationships are also jeopardized, and…

The research could help inform the best ways of building assistive or prosthetic devices for humans, or constructing next-generation robotics, say NC State…

“Misunderstanding social situations and interactions are core deficits in schizophrenia,” said Sohee Park, Gertrude Conaway Professor of Psychology and one of…

A new study by Baylor University environmental health researchers found that zebra fish exposed to several different technical mixtures of polybrominated…

The author of the thesis Karin Helgesson studied the development of unclassified recruitment advertisements from 1955 to 2005. A recruitment ad consists of a…

The study has been published in the scientific journal Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research, and is the first to have investigated a large group of…

In a research study published in the journal Media Psychology, Andrew J. Weaver, an assistant professor of telecommunications in IU's College of Arts and…

“Cognitive psychologists are trying to be like physicists and chemists, which means doing controlled laboratory experiments, getting numbers out of them and…

A new study from American Cancer Society researchers finds use of 30 tablets a month or more of acetaminophen for five or more years was associated with an…

Professor Monica Rosén of the Department of Education and Special Education has analysed differences between different countries over time in order to explain…