People who are highly materialistic tend to use Facebook frequently and intensely.
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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...
Overall divergent thinking (ODT) score.
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Listening to happy music may help generate more, innovative solutions compared to listening to silence, according to a study published September 6, 2017 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Simone...
Another reason to get an education. Longer life.
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A new study by researchers at the University of Colorado, New York University, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill estimates the number of deaths that...
English is the most used language on the Internet, and globally most of the people who speak or write in English are non-native speakers. A new database of annotated English sentences written by non-native speakers could help improve how...
A new study, led by UNSW Sydney Ph.D. student Rose O'Dea, has explored patterns in academic grades of 1.6 million students, showing that girls and boys perform very similarly in STEM—including at the top of the class.
The analysis, published...
EEGs taken before and after the training showed that the biggest changes occurred in the brains of the group that trained using the "dual n-back" method.
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One of the two brain-training methods most scientists use in research...
Men and women might speak with higher-pitched voices towards high status people because a low-pitched voice sounds dominant, particularly in men, while a high-pitched voice sounds relatively submissive.
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People tend to change the pitch of their...
Type I landslides on Ceres are relatively round, large and have thick "toes" at their ends. They look similar to rock glaciers and icy landslides in Earth's arctic.
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Massive landslides, similar to those found...
Despite efforts from No Child Left Behind to promote 'highly qualified' teaching, recent research shows that just 36 percent of new secondary science teachers are teaching only in their trained subject.
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Ryan Nixon spent four years studying...
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Children from low-income families are at substantial risk in terms of their social-emotional and academic skills at school entry, with fewer than half considered ready for school at age 5. A new study has found that...
This study found there is a moderate, yet significant, correlation between handedness and mathematical skill, report researchers.
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A link between handedness and mathematical skills exists, but is more complex than is thought according to a...
