The world's largest protected areas encompass vast amounts of wilderness but do not extensively overlap the highest priority areas for conservation or include…
Fred Short, UNH research professor of natural resources and director of the worldwide program SeagrassNet, was among the 174 scientists who contributed to “The…
“Sociologists have long maintained that race is the strongest predictor of whether two Americans will socialize,” said Andreas Wimmer, the study's lead author…
HIGH SCHOOL DROPOUT, GRADUATION, AND COMPLETION RATES: BETTER DATA, BETTER MEASURES, BETTER DECISIONS, a new report from the National Research Council and the…
According to Dr. Pooja Tandon, “A majority of children under the age of 5 years in the United States spend almost 40 hours a week with caregivers other than…
Dr. Thomas E. Lacher, Jr., Texas A&M University's wildlife and fisheries sciences department head at College Station, Texas and a coauthor, said the report…
Unfortunately, Drost, a doctoral student at Michigan State University, knows that many times those warnings are ignored, according to his research. “Only 63…
Knowledge gaps and fear — some of it unjustified — are common among the caregivers of children with a drug-resistant staph bacterium known as MRSA, according…
When these infections are left untreated, complications can include hearing loss, speech problems and more severe infections that can spread to bone and brain,…
Turning up the heat might be the best thing for athletes competing in cool weather, according to a new study by human physiology researchers at the University…
Overall, college-age men were quite good at recalling whether their female peers – in this case, represented through photos – showed interest. Their memories…
According to new research published in the journal Addiction, smokers with a history of anxiety disorders are less likely to quit smoking. The study, conducted…
The study identifies energy efficiency as the single most important option for achieving significant and long-term reductions in GHG emissions, accounting for…
The study looked at people who have a gene variant that is closely associated with narcolepsy, a sleep disorder that causes excessive daytime sleepiness.However, having the gene variant, called DQB1 *0602, does not mean that a person will develop narcolepsy; depending on the population, 12 to 38 percent of those with the variant do not have the sleep disorder and are considered healthy sleepers. Also, people without the gene variant can develop narcolepsy, though this is less common. …
The brain patterns that drive this behavior are not well-understood, but a new study from MIT’s McGovern Institute for Brain Research shows that habit…
Among children born in the United States, low socioeconomic status (SES) and exposure to pests (mice and cockroaches) were both associated with having asthma….
Feedback
