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| How smartphones can help detect ecological change Posted: 12 May 2021 08:56 AM PDT Mobile apps like Flora Incognita that allow automated identification of wild plants cannot only identify plant species, but also uncover large-scale ecological patterns. This opens up new perspectives for rapid detection of biodiversity changes. |
| Organic meat less likely to be contaminated with multidrug-resistant bacteria Posted: 12 May 2021 08:55 AM PDT Meat that is certified organic by the U.S. Department of Agriculture is less likely to be contaminated with bacteria that can sicken people, including dangerous, multidrug-resistant organisms, compared to conventionally produced meat. |
| AI learns to type on a phone like humans Posted: 12 May 2021 05:34 AM PDT To really understand how people type on touchscreens, researchers have created the first artificial intelligence model that predicts how people move their eyes and fingers while typing. The AI model can simulate how a human user would type any sentence on any keyboard design. It makes errors, detects and corrects them, and also predicts how people adapt to a new auto-correction system or keyboard design. |
| Pink drinks can help you run faster and further, study finds Posted: 12 May 2021 05:34 AM PDT A new study shows that pink drinks can help to make you run faster and further compared to clear drinks. |
| Petting therapy dogs enhances thinking skills of stressed college students Posted: 12 May 2021 05:34 AM PDT Programs exclusively focused on petting therapy dogs improved stressed-out students' thinking and planning skills more effectively than programs that included traditional stress-management information, according to new research. |
| Focus on outliers creates flawed snap judgments Posted: 11 May 2021 01:07 PM PDT You enter a room and quickly scan the crowd to gain a sense of who's there - how many men versus women. How reliable is your estimate? Not very, according to new research. In an experimental study, researchers found that participants consistently erred in estimating the proportion of men and women in a group. And participants erred in a particular way: They overestimated whichever group was in the minority. |
| Many people could reduce their 'feeding window' by three hours Posted: 11 May 2021 09:38 AM PDT A new study has revealed 'real world' factors that influence people's interest in adopting a dietary pattern called time-restricted feeding. |
| Nature draws out a happy place for children Posted: 11 May 2021 09:38 AM PDT Young children in deprived areas see nature and outdoor spaces as being associated with 'happy places', according to a new study. |
| Online therapy effective against OCD symptoms in the young Posted: 11 May 2021 09:38 AM PDT Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in children and adolescents is associated with impaired education and worse general health later in life. Access to specialist treatment is often limited. According to a new study, internet-delivered cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) can be as effective as conventional CBT. The study can help make treatment for OCD more widely accessible. |
| Meditative practice and spiritual wellbeing may preserve cognitive function in aging Posted: 11 May 2021 09:37 AM PDT It is projected that up to 152 million people worldwide will be living with Alzheimer's disease (AD) by 2050. To date there are no drugs that have a substantial positive impact on either the prevention or reversal of cognitive decline. A growing body of evidence finds that targeting lifestyle and vascular risk factors have a beneficial effect on overall cognitive performance. A new review examines research that finds spiritual fitness, a new concept in medicine that centers on psychological and spiritual wellbeing, and Kirtan Kriya, a simple 12-minute meditative practice, may reduce multiple risk factors for AD. |
| New mothers twice as likely to have post-natal depression in lockdown, study finds Posted: 11 May 2021 09:36 AM PDT Almost half (47.5 percent) of women with babies aged six months or younger met the threshold for postnatal depression during the first COVID lockdown, more than double average rates for Europe before the pandemic (23 percent), a new study finds. |
| Intoxication brings strangers physically closer Posted: 10 May 2021 01:14 PM PDT In a study with pandemic-related implications, researchers report that strangers who consume alcohol together may keep their distance initially -- but draw physically closer as they become intoxicated. |
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