People who are highly materialistic tend to use Facebook frequently and intensely. Credit: © Photographee.eu / Fotolia If you're materialistic, you're likely to use Facebook more frequently and intensely. A new paper in Heliyon reveals that materialistic people see and treat...
Mapping a lake by GPS positioning and depth sounder by boat is very time-consuming, therefore the researchers decided to use a theory driven approach in the study. Credit: David Seekell What is the volume of water in lakes on Earth? Using...
A preschooler is exposed to light at night as part of a CU Boulder study measuring the impact of screens on sleep. Credit: CU Boulder With their brains, sleep patterns, and eyes still developing, children and adolescents are particularly vulnerable to...
Domestic horses form the center of nomadic life in contemporary Mongolia. Credit: Photo: P. Enkhtuvshin According to new research, nomadic horse culture -- famously associated with Genghis Khan and his Mongol hordes -- can trace its roots back more than 3,000...
New research from King's College London finds that teacher assessments are equally as reliable as standardised exams at predicting educational success. The researchers say their findings, published today in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, question whether the benefits of...
Behavioral experiments have shown that women share a sum of money more generously than men. Credit: © suthisak / Fotolia Behavioral experiments have shown that women share a sum of money more generously than men. To gain a more in-depth understanding...
High school students. Credit: © AntonioDiaz / Fotolia The RAND Corporation and RAND Europe have released the first-ever, state-by-state analysis (in 47 states) of the economic implications of a shift in school start times in the U.S., showing that a nationwide...
County-level annual damages in the median scenario for the climate from 2080 to 2099 under a business-as-usual emissions trajectory. Negative damages indicate economic benefits. Credit: Hsiang, Kopp, Jina, Rising, et al (2017). Unmitigated climate change will make the United States poorer...
Hai-Bo Yu is an assistant professor of theoretical particle physics and astrophysics at UC Riverside. Credit: I. Pittalwala, UC Riverside Identical twins are similar to each other in many ways, but they have different experiences, friends, and lifestyles. This...
Male lion attack huge buffalo bull. Credit: © Alta Oosthuizen / Fotolia Populations of predators and their prey usually follow predictable cycles. When the number of prey increases -- perhaps as their food supply becomes more abundant -- predator populations also...
To evaluate infants’ intuition regarding what other people value, researchers showed them videos in which an agent (red bouncing ball) decides whether it’s worth the effort to leap over an obstacle to reach a goal (blue cartoon character). Credit: Courtesy...