Category: Education
Male and female brains look similar
Gender stereotypes don’t extend to the brain. Researchers prove that male and female brains look pretty much the same. Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science researchers debunked the belief that the hippocampus, a crucial part of the brain that […]
Follow your passion for a successful career
Should you pursue your passion or strive toward a secure living? A new Tel Aviv University study published in the Journal of Applied Psychology finds that the two objectives are not mutually exclusive — in fact, each feeds the other. […]
Early life stress fries brain’s reward circuits
A study shows that adults who are abused or neglected as children are almost twice as likely to experience depression. Researchers at Duke University and the University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio recruited 106 adolescents, between the […]
Nine-day sugar-free diet improved teens’ health
Reducing consumption of added sugar, even without reducing calories or losing weight, has the power to reverse a cluster of chronic metabolic diseases, including high cholesterol and blood pressure, in children in as little as nine days, according to a […]
Learn new words while you sleep
You can’t learn new things in your sleep. Nevertheless, if you’ve been learning vocabulary in a foreign language, it can be highly effective to hear these words played over again while you sleep, as was already shown a year ago […]
Prolonged TV viewing linked to deadly diseases
In a new study suggests that prolonged hours watching TV is linked with 8 leading causes of death in the US. In this study, researchers at the National Cancer Institute looked at more than 221,000 individuals aged 50-71 years old […]
The brain forgets to save energy
A research group at Lund University in Sweden has now been able to describe how our memories flush out “unnecessary learning.” The premise is that human or animal subjects can learn to associate a certain tone or light signal with […]
Study suggests new strategy to treat cancer
A new study by Stony Brook University researchers suggests that instead of targeting invasive cells instead of dividing cells is a more effective strategy to treat cancer. Researchers found that cells in a roundworm nematode can’t divide and invade at […]
Toxins found in clothes
Researchers at Stockholm University examined if there are chemicals in the clothes we buy as well. Several substances related to health risks were identified and not even organic cotton was a guarantee for non-toxic textiles. In a new thesis 60 […]
Green offices make employees smarter
People who work in well-ventilated offices with below-average levels of indoor pollutants and carbon dioxide (CO2) have are better in responding to a crisis and developing strategy than those who work in regular offices. Researchers from the Harvard T.H. Chan […]
