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People who live alone have unhealthy diets
People who love alone have unhealthy diets, a study by the Queensland University of Technology finds out. Lack of cooking skills, no one to go grocery shopping with, and the lack of motivation to cook a meal are the main […]
Five-year-olds already have self-esteem
A study shows that children already have a sense of self-esteem as early as five years old. The new findings, published in the January 2016 issue of the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, used a newly developed test to assess […]
Moody people adapt better
A new theory published November 3 in Trends in Cognitive Sciences argues that mood draws on experiences and can, in fact, help us quickly adapt to changes in our environment. According to the new theory, as people learn from experiences […]
People use smartphones for five hours a day
People use their smartphones for an average of five hours a day or about a third of the time they are awake. People also check it about 85 times a day, research suggests. The study in the journal PLOS ONE […]
New device detects diabetes through saliva
A new device can detect diabetes through saliva samples and gives results in a few seconds, through a smartphone. The device is developed by scientists at the Tec de Monterrey (Mexican University) in collaboration with the University of Houston and […]
Method diagnoses Alzheimer’s decades before symptoms
Researchers at Gothenburg University developed a reference method to identify Alzheimer’s decades before symptoms appear now became an international standard. It will now be used to diagnose the disease worldwide. After decades of research, Henrik Zetterberg and Kaj Blennow at […]
Sleepwalkers don’t feel pain
Sleepwalkers don’t feel pain when they’re injured while asleep. Most of them aren’t even woken by an injury and only feel pain when they wake up the morning after. A study shows that sleepwalkers were nearly 4 times more likely […]
Route-learning changes brain tissue
Carnegie Mellon University scientists discovered that learning direction can change the brain. Published in NeuroImage, Tim Keller and Marcel Just show for the first time that brief navigation training changes a person’s brain tissue and improves how that changed tissue […]
Test can diagnose pre-diabetes
A discovery by University of Hawai’i Cancer Center can diagnose pre-diabetes, allowing them to change their lifestyle to avoid the disease. The test uses a panel of markers that helps identify if a person is pre-diabetic by measuring the fatty […]
Men prefer smart women—from a distance
A new study found that men say they prefer smart women, but are intimidated or less attracted when they interact with smart women face-to-face. “We found that men preferred women who are smarter than them in psychologically distant situations. Men […]
