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Distracted drivers 29 times more likely to wreck in a highway work zone
A vehicle traveling at 55 mph covers a distance greater than a football field in five seconds. With the average
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Is our personality affected by the way we look? (Or the way we think we look?): Research team at the University of Göttingen disproves previous assumptions
To what extent is our personality an adaptation to our appearance or even our physique? A team of scien-tists at
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Researchers design technology that sees nerve cells fire: Technique could be used to monitor visual function through the optic nerve in the eye
Researchers at Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, have created a noninvasive technology that detects when nerve cells fire based on
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Virtual reality can help make people more compassionate compared to other media
A Stanford-developed virtual reality experience, called “Becoming Homeless,” is helping expand research on how this new immersive technology affects people’s
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Evolution: Genetics doesn’t matter much in forming society
Genetics isn’t as important as once thought for the evolution of altruistic social behavior in some organisms, a new insight
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Why do people share? It’s contagious, six-year study of Hadza people shows
In the modern world, people cooperate with other people including strangers all the time. We give blood, tip providers of
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Scientists find a neurological synergy in explaining the processing of an optical illusion
A team of scientists has uncovered a neurological synergy that occurs in visual adaptation, a phenomenon in which perception is
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Making love can make men sad too
A world-first study by QUT researchers concludes men can and do suffer from Postcoital Dysphoria (PCD) which results in feelings
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Unconventional connections: How inhibition hones cortical selectivity
Our brains do a remarkable job of encoding visual information about the world around us, providing an almost instantaneous report
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