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Students have trouble judging the credibility of information online, researchers find
A new report shows a dismaying inability by students to reason about information they see on the Internet.
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When it...
Magnetic fields to alleviate anxiety
People suffering from a fear of heights experience the anxiety also in virtual reality – even though they are aware that they are not...
Beliefs about all-knowing gods fosters co-operation
Researchers looked at how religion affects humans' willingness to co-operate with those outside their social circle. They found that beliefs about all-knowing gods fosters...
Wearable solar thermoelectric generator created
This is a photograph of the TE ink printed in various shapes with curves and straight lines.
Credit: UNIST
A recent study, led by Professor Kyoung...
Solving the Easter Island population puzzle
A detailed study of Easter Island's farming potential reveals the population may have reached 17,500 people in its heyday, which could help unravel the...
Mammals diversified only after dinosaur extinction left space
Dr Matthew Phillips.
Credit: Image courtesy of Queensland University of Technology
QUT evolutionary biologist Dr Matthew Phillips used molecular dating from DNA sequences to challenge the...
Bacteria supply their allies with munitions
Vibrio cholerae bacteria (green) recycle T6SS proteins of the attacking sister cells (red) to build their own spear gun (light green intracellular structure).
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Ancient DNA data fills in thousands of years of human prehistory in Africa
This is a photograph of Mount Hora, which yielded two of the samples - including the oldest one at about 8100 years ago.
Credit: Jessica...
Unique gene therapy prevents, reverses multiple sclerosis in animal model
Multiple sclerosis affects about 2.3 million people worldwide and is the most common neurological disease in young adults.
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Multiple sclerosis can...
Widespread land losses from 2010 Gulf oil spill, study finds
2010 photo of a shoreline in Bay Jimmy, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, impacted by the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Oil weakens and kills vegetation,...
After 15 years in a vegetative state, nerve stimulation restores consciousness
-Fluorodeoxyglucose FDG-PET images acquired during baseline (on the left, pre-VNS) and 3 months post vagus nerve stimulation (on the right, post-VNS). After vagus nerve...
