Fat shaming linked to greater health risks
People who are battling obesity face being stereotyped as lazy, incompetent, unattractive, lacking willpower, and to blame for their excess weight. The pain...
Scientists map the genetic evolution of dinoflagellates for the first time
Credit: University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
A group scientists have used new genetic sequencing data to understand how an ancient organism that lived...
Physicists unveil new form of matter—time crystals
Following a blueprint created by UC Berkeley physicist Norman Yao, physicists at the University of Maryland made the first time crystal using a one-dimensional...
Conscientious workers face exhaustion, shows research
An extra mile at work left employees emotionally exhausted and grappling with work-family conflict. Image Credit: Flickr/jaimebisbal
Being conscientious at work has long been linked...
Triggering the brain’s ‘auto-focus’
n a test of cognitive control, researchers found that repeatedly pairing a specific face, such as this photo of Leonardo DiCaprio, with the wrong...
Split brain does not lead to split consciousness
A depiction of the traditional view of the split brain syndrome (top) versus what the researchers actually found in two split-brain patients across a...
Secret of supervolcano found in tiny crystals
The researchers analysed quartz crystals from Toba, and found a distinct shift in the isotopic composition towards the outer rim of the crystals. Credit:...
Tiny exports signal big shifts in cancer tissue, researchers find
A constellation of vesicles, tiny cellular transport packages seen here as blue dots, are released by cancer cells into the surrounding tissue. Illinois researchers...
Antioxidant compounds mimic effective graphene agents, show potential for therapies
PEG-PDI, which incorporates a compound long used as a red dye, changes to greenish-blue with the addition of potassium superoxide as it converts the...
Antarctic bottom waters freshening at unexpected rate
In some places along the Antarctic coast, ice formation causes seawater to grow saltier and therefore denser, so that it sinks to the sea...
Better wisdom from crowds
A new technique can better extract correct answers from large groups of people. For a given question, people are asked two things: What they...
