Common Pain Reliever – Acetaminophen – Makes Risky Moves Seem Less Dangerous
In study, acetaminophen alters perceptions of risk. While acetaminophen is helping you deal with your headache, it may also be making you more willing to…
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Rogue Planets That Float in Space Without Orbiting a Sun Could Outnumber the Stars
Upcoming NASA mission will search for planets in the Milky Way without their own sun. An upcoming NASA mission could find that there are more…
Climate Scientists Sound the Alarm: Warming Greenland Ice Sheet Passes Point of No Return
Even if the climate cools, study finds, glaciers will continue to shrink. Nearly 40 years of satellite data from Greenland shows that glaciers on the…
Chinese and American Scientists Are Working Together More Than Ever to Study the COVID-19 Virus
American and Chinese Scientists Leading Efforts on COVID-19 Despite the political tensions between the United States and China, scientists in the two countries are working…
New Research Shows Candidates Who Use Humor on Twitter May Find the Joke Is on Them
Study finds funny stuff reduces credibility and support. Political candidates’ use of humor on social media could sometimes backfire on them with potential supporters, new…
Large-Scale Experiment Shows People Want to Help Each Other, Even When It Costs Them Something
People are more generous than not and try to do right by each other, no matter the motivation. People want to help each other, even…
The Math Behind COVID-19 Modeling
COVID-19 has brought calculus, statistics and probability theory into our daily lives. Some of us might have been happy to leave mathematics behind in high…
Tiny ‘Backpack’ Computers Developed to Track Wild Animals in Hard-to-Reach Habitats
Lightweight wireless network enables precise mapping of bats’ social networks. To truly understand an animal species is to observe its behavior and social networks in…
AI Detects Bomb Craters to Estimate Unexploded Bombs Left From Vietnam War
Machine Learning Detects Bomb Craters in Cambodia Researchers have used artificial intelligence to detect Vietnam War-era bomb craters in Cambodia from satellite images – with…
How Do Vampire Bat Strangers Make Friends? Scientists Find Out
It starts with a gradual buildup of trust, study finds. We humans can explain how our relationships with college roommates and co-workers have formed over…
Radar and Ice Could Help Detect Mysterious Subatomic Particles That Pass Right Through Matter
Scientists create new experiment to find neutrinos. One of the greatest mysteries in astrophysics these days is a tiny subatomic particle called a neutrino, so…
Never Trust a Person’s Face? New Research on Analyzing Facial Expressions
Researchers warn of drawing too-quick conclusions about people’s feelings from facial expressions. Interacting with other people is almost always a game of reading cues and…
What Is More Enjoyable, Revenge or Forgiveness? What’s More Meaningful?
Study finds revenge is more enjoyable than forgiveness — at least in stories — but forgiveness stories are more meaningful. When it comes to entertainment,…
High-Level Nuclear Waste Storage Materials Will Likely Degrade Faster Than Previously Thought
Study finds the materials — glass, ceramics and stainless steel — interact to accelerate corrosion. The materials the United States and other countries plan to…
Harnessing the Entire Spectrum of Sunlight to Make Solar Energy More Efficient
Chemistry finding could make solar energy more efficient as researchers have found a way to harness the entire spectrum of sunlight. Scientists for the first…
Revolutionary ‘Robotic Blacksmithing’ Technology Could Revive US Manufacturing
Although it may not be obvious, there’s a close link between manufacturing technology and innovation. Elon Musk often talks of the “machines that build the…
New Open-Source System Developed to Manage and Share Complex Datasets
Simplifying How Scientists Share Data Data is often at the heart of science – researchers track velocities, measure light coming from stars, analyze heart rates…
Seeing the New Star Wars Movie? This Psychological Analysis Says Be Careful What You Wish For
Study surveyed people before and after they saw The Last Jedi. How much you enjoy the new Star Wars movie will depend a lot on…