Mindfully Curated
Global warming has caused extreme ice melting events in Greenland to become more frequent and more intense over the past 40 years according to new research, raising sea levels and flood risk worldwide.
The stereotype of men being less emotionally invested in relationships than women may not be accurate, say psychologists. A new study of online relationship support finds that men tend to experience emotional pain more than women when their relationshi…
Physicists have made an advancement in the study of excitons — electrically neutral quasiparticles that exist in insulators, semi-conductors and some liquids. The researchers are announcing the creation of an ‘excitonic’ wire, or one-dimensional chann…
A researcher surveyed 645 Americans about their beliefs on climate change — whether or not those beliefs are informed by fact or fiction — to assess their communication behaviors about climate change.
A new study demonstrates that children who are exposed to a certain type of environmental air pollution are more likely to contract community acquired pneumonia, or CAP, and to be hospitalized for longer periods of time. Social factors, including race …
Studying fruit flies, researchers ask how a single brain chemical can orchestrate diverse functions such as learning, motivation and movement.
Prior infections appear to shield enteric neurons, preventing these key components of the body’s ‘second brain’ from dying off when future pathogens strike.
COVID vaccines are five times more effective at preventing COVID-related hospitalization than prior infection alone, according to new research. The study was conducted by CDC’s VISION Network which gathered data from more than 201,000 hospitalizations …
For the first time, researchers have used human data to quantify the speed of different processes that lead to Alzheimer’s disease and found that it develops in a very different way than previously thought. Their results could have important implicatio…