Oct. 6, 2020 — Appeals seeking donations to help fight hunger during the COVID-19 pandemic were more successful when the typeface in which the appeal was written mirrored the tone of the donation request, a new ...
Oct. 6, 2020 — Researchers sought to examine the impact of pandemic-related changes upon physical activity and sedentary behavior, specifically sitting, across the university ...
Oct. 5, 2020 — At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, just as public institutions and businesses closed, research programs performing human participant research (HPR) also largely ceased operations. Now, ...
Oct. 5, 2020 — Women are more likely than are men to follow guidelines outlined by medical experts to prevent the spread of COVID-19, new research ...
Oct. 3, 2020 — Surgical patients who participate in virtual follow-up visits after their operations spend a similar amount of time with surgical team members as those who meet ...
Oct. 2, 2020 — The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has released the final report of a consensus study recommending a four-phased equitable allocation framework that the US Department of ...
Oct. 2, 2020 — Northwestern University researchers have developed the first quantitative model that captures how politicized environments affect U.S. political opinion formation and ...
Oct. 2, 2020 — The psychosocial profile of people who resist adopting suitable protective behaviors against the transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus provides valuable information about preventing ...
Oct. 2, 2020 — A politically engaged electorate is key to any thriving democracy, but not everyone participates in elections and other political activities. New research found that people who are narcissistic may ...
Oct. 1, 2020 — The COVID-19 pandemic has created a flood of potentially substandard research amid the rush to publish, with a string of papers retracted or under a cloud and a surge in submissions to pre-print ...
Oct. 1, 2020 — Men predominate in more than 85 percent of COVID-19 decision-making and key advisory bodies around the globe, with gender parity in just 3.5 percent, reveals a new ...
Oct. 1, 2020 — Experts working in the field of vaccine development tend to believe that an effective vaccine is not likely to be available for the general public before the fall of 2021. A new paper details the ...
Oct. 1, 2020 — A new study reveals that decent living standards could be provided to the entire global population of 10 billion that is expected to be reached by 2050, for less than 40% of today's global ...
Oct. 1, 2020 — Every third child in the world has too much lead in their body, according to a new report from UNICEF and Pure ...
Oct. 1, 2020 — Children who show addiction-like gaming signs are not any more susceptible to mental health problems than their non-gaming peers. Some even experience less anxiety than others, according to ...
Oct. 1, 2020 — New brain research shows that writing by hand helps children learn more and remember better. At the same time, schools are going more and more digital, and a European survey shows that Norwegian ...
Oct. 1, 2020 — Researchers report in a new study a way to improve groundwater monitoring by using a remote sensing technology (known as InSAR), in conjunction with climate and land cover data, to bridge gaps in the ...
Sep. 30, 2020 — Residents of counties that experience persistent poverty face a disproportionately high risk of cancer ...
Sep. 29, 2020 — In 2016, the world's largest ever data leak dubbed "The Panama Papers" exposed a scandal, uncovering a vast global network of people -- including celebrities and world leaders, who ...
Sep. 29, 2020 — Can't stop checking social media for the latest COVID-19 health information? You might want to take a break, according to researchers who discovered that excessive use of social media for ...
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