Interactions through music help people to minimize feelings of prejudice while boosting empathy for others unlike themselves, a researcher has found.
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Jake Harwood turned his lifelong hobby as a musician into a scholarly question: Could the...
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).
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High school students.
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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...
Domestic horses form the center of nomadic life in contemporary Mongolia.
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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...
Modeled microcapsules demonstrate 'quorum sensing' behavior. A small collection of microcapsules remains dormant (left) whereas a large, crowded population exhibits oscillations in chemical activity (right), represented by circular waves of color.
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From the smallest cell to humans, most...
Musicians are monitored to determine how they anticipate one another's moves.
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Researchers at McMaster are one step closer to solving one of the mysteries of social interaction: how musicians communicate during a performance and anticipate one another's moves...
While some STEM majors have a one-to-one male-to-female ratio, physics, engineering and computer science (PECS) majors consistently have some of the largest gender imbalances among U.S. college majors—with about four men to every woman in the major. In a...
Players in Crystallize learn new words by observing conversations. Credit: Cornell University
Games are usually more fun when you play with other people, but if you're playing an educational game, interacting with other players may help you learn more, according...
The purpose of going to school is to learn, but students may find certain topics difficult to understand if they don't have the necessary background knowledge. This is one of the conclusions of a research article published in Psychological Science,...
Children improve at math when instruction engages their own bodies, a new study says. Image credit: Flickr/Jan Tik
Children improve at math when instruction engages their own bodies. This is one of the findings from a recent study coming from...
Brad Mahon, Ph.D., Dan Fabbio, and Web Pilcher, M.D., Ph.D., watching footage of surgery to remove tumor from Fabbio's brain.
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Music is not only a major part of Dan Fabbio's life, as...
