https://phys.org/ en-us Phys.org internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. You can probably remember at least one education choice you regret. You don't have to be lazy or naive to pick the wrong subject, just lacking in information about what you will actually have to study on the course. https://phys.org/news/2026-01-students-theyll.html Education Wed, 28 Jan 2026 10:00:52 EST news688816801 Finding one tick on your body is scary enough—tick-borne diseases are serious—but what if you found more than 10 on yourself in just one month? That's the plight of some farmers as the threat of ticks and tick-borne diseases grows, according to new research featuring experts at Binghamton University, State University of New York. https://phys.org/news/2026-01-northeastern-farmers-encounters-month-period.html Plants & Animals Tue, 06 Jan 2026 14:30:22 EST news686932202 Researchers have found that when we invest in our appearance and feel we look better—whether in reality, online, or even just in our imagination—we behave more kindly and are twice as likely to donate to charity. https://phys.org/news/2024-11-investing-contributors-society.html Social Sciences Mon, 25 Nov 2024 16:39:36 EST news651775174 How much does a loan officer's familiarity with an auditor affect their client's ability to receive a commercial loan? New research from Georgia Tech suggests that while knowing an auditor doesn't guarantee a commercial loan, loan officers are more likely to deny loans to companies that have auditors with poor reputations. https://phys.org/news/2024-06-loan-liability-negative-associations-auditor.html Economics & Business Tue, 04 Jun 2024 15:52:52 EDT news636735170 Veterinary researchers at the University of Liverpool, along with partners at Dogs Trust, have developed a unique approach to detecting and predicting dog mobility issues. https://phys.org/news/2024-01-unique-approach-dog-mobility-issues.html Veterinary medicine Mon, 08 Jan 2024 11:08:03 EST news623934481 Using questionnaires created to determine whether a particular earthquake is natural or induced by human activity, a panel of experts concluded that the November 2022 magnitude 5.2 Peace River earthquake sequence in Alberta, Canada was likely induced. https://phys.org/news/2023-12-peace-river-earthquake-natural-frameworks.html Earth Sciences Thu, 14 Dec 2023 14:22:04 EST news621786121 A team of psychologists and social scientists from Maynooth University, in Ireland, Ulster University, in Northern Ireland and Napier University, in Scotland, has found via questionnaire that traditional Irish wakes may help people deal better with the death of a loved one than somber funerals such as those conducted in the U.K. https://phys.org/news/2023-11-grief-questionnaire-results-irish-loss.html Social Sciences Tue, 21 Nov 2023 10:00:01 EST news619782722 Half of all women scientists worldwide have been the victim of workplace sexual harassment at some point during their career, according to a survey published on Thursday. https://phys.org/news/2023-03-women-scientists-worldwide-sexually-survey.html Other Thu, 16 Mar 2023 14:41:42 EDT news598196493 New research emphasizes how important children's well-being is for their sense of achievement. https://phys.org/news/2023-03-well-being-school-linked.html Social Sciences Tue, 14 Mar 2023 14:25:52 EDT news598022747 Employees who have previously been the subject of rude behavior run a greater risk of being bullied at work. These are the findings of a year-long series of surveys carried out by a researcher at Malmö University. The findings are published in the journal BMC Psychology. https://phys.org/news/2023-02-rudeness-colleagues-workplace-bullying.html Social Sciences Wed, 08 Feb 2023 14:05:02 EST news595087501 A trio of researchers, two from Southern Medical University, in China, and the third from Technische Universität Dresden in Germany, has found a connection between people who place high importance on olfaction and body odor sniffing and a strong sexual desire. In their paper published in the journal Archives of Sexual Behavior, Zi‑lin Li, Thomas Hummel and Lai‑quan Zou, describe questionnaires they gave to three different groups of college students regarding the role of olfaction in their lives and what they learned from the answers they received. https://phys.org/news/2022-08-people-olfaction-important-odors-stronger.html Social Sciences Fri, 26 Aug 2022 10:31:59 EDT news580728714 New University of Bristol-led research has highlighted several potential welfare concerns relating to how snakes are kept in private homes including issues with enclosure size, temperature and humidity. https://phys.org/news/2022-07-potential-welfare-privately-snakes.html Ecology Fri, 15 Jul 2022 13:21:43 EDT news577110101 Comfortable urban public spaces play an important role in shaping healthy behaviors and raising well-being among citizens. Given the context of climate change, unplanned urbanization, and the worldwide air-borne pandemic, there is prominent concern about comfort in urban planning and municipal policymaking considering the increasing awareness of outdoor environment vulnerability. For his Ph.D. research, You Peng developed methodology to assesses comfort in urban public spaces. https://phys.org/news/2022-06-people-comfort-urban-spaces.html Environment Thu, 02 Jun 2022 10:05:35 EDT news573383133 Recently published U.K. government plans proposed that by 2030, 90% of children leaving primary school in England should reach the expected standards in reading, writing and math, compared with 65% in 2019. https://phys.org/news/2022-05-math-good-primary-schoolchildren.html Mathematics Tue, 17 May 2022 09:18:04 EDT news571997881 Creativity has been designated a critical 21st Century Skill by the National Research Council, yet there is not one ideal, accepted way to identify creative young people and encourage the strength as part of their education. A new study from the University of Kansas found that while creativity's value has long been recognized, there are three primary methods of assessing it in young people. Those methods have pros and cons, including racialized, gendered and class-based approaches. https://phys.org/news/2022-04-creativity-slowly-racialized-gendered-approaches.html Education Wed, 27 Apr 2022 14:40:01 EDT news570288933 A trio of psychologists at Lund University has found via online questionnaire, that people who believe in astrology tend to be less intelligent than the norm and more narcissistic. In their paper published in the journal Personality and Individual Differences, Ida Andersson, Julia Persson and Petri Kajonius describe their study and what they learned from it. https://phys.org/news/2021-11-people-astrology-tend-intelligent-narcissistic.html Social Sciences Fri, 26 Nov 2021 13:30:01 EST news557141329 An analysis in Learned Publishing indicates that the number of academic research articles using surveys and questionnaires has dramatically risen in the past 20 years; however, the quality of some of these articles (and therefore the research) may be in doubt. https://phys.org/news/2021-09-nature-academic.html Other Thu, 09 Sep 2021 03:17:05 EDT news550376219 Researchers at the University of Helsinki have developed a new comprehensive questionnaire for surveying feline personality and behavior. A dataset of more than 4,300 cats representing 26 breed groups revealed seven personality and behavior traits, with significant differences observed between breeds. https://phys.org/news/2021-09-personality-behaviour-traits-cats.html Plants & Animals Mon, 06 Sep 2021 09:35:09 EDT news550139706 A pair of researchers at Macquarie University has found that women are able to accurately gauge a man's interest in casual sexual relationships by noting the shape of his face. In their paper published in the journal Evolution and Human Behavior, Joseph Antar and Ian Stephen describe their study, which involved volunteer questionnaires. https://phys.org/news/2021-07-women-attitude-casual-sexual-relationships.html Social Sciences Thu, 15 Jul 2021 08:30:01 EDT news545555447 Is it the difficulty of a task that determines whether or not students are stressed when working on it? Dr. Nina Minkley, a biologist working in biology didactics at Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB), set out to find out the answers in an interdisciplinary research team together with Dr. Moritz Krell (Freie Universität Berlin) and Dr. Kate Xu (Open Universiteit, Netherlands); to this end, the team used questionnaires and measured the heart rate in 209 test participants." This enables us to contrast the subjective perception of stress with an objective measurement method and compare the two," explains Nina Minkley. Contrary to expectations, it turned out that the effort invested in the task does not increase with its difficulty, nor does the stress level. The study was featured in the journal Frontiers in Education on 12. April 2021. https://phys.org/news/2021-04-analysis-stress-classroom.html Education Thu, 15 Apr 2021 11:07:50 EDT news537703668 The first questionnaire survey to identify possible separation-related problems in cats found 13.5 percent of all sampled cats displayed potential issues during their owner's absence, according to a study published April 15, 2020 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Daiana de Souza Machado, from the Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Brazil, and colleagues. https://phys.org/news/2020-04-questionnaire-survey-potential-separation-related-problems.html Plants & Animals Wed, 15 Apr 2020 14:00:02 EDT news506151261 A simple new questionnaire based on emoticon-style facial expressions could help teachers and others who work with children as young as four to engage them on their happiness and wellbeing levels in the classroom. https://phys.org/news/2017-02-emoticons-gauge-school-happiness-young.html Social Sciences Fri, 03 Feb 2017 09:33:05 EST news405336777 According to Izaskun Casado-Arzuaga, ecosystems provide more services than what many people believe. And their value is not in fact limited to the possibilities they offer in terms of landscape, aesthetic aspects or leisure. Casado is one of the members of the research group into Landscape, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services and, in her opinion, it is important to remember the other services offered by ecosystems. Among them she refers to supply services, like food, water, energy and materials, as well as regulating services like, for example, to guarantee water and air quality and protect against flooding, etc. In this respect, "we regard many of these services as being free, but the benefits, which are invaluable, are highly beneficial and necessary," says Casado. https://phys.org/news/2013-08-citizens-greater-bilbao-regard-green.html Environment Tue, 20 Aug 2013 10:57:19 EDT news296215027 The benefits of race-conscious college admissions are only fully realized under certain conditions, concludes new University of Maryland-led research. To stimulate meaningful cross-racial engagement, incoming freshman classes should reflect both racial and socio-economic diversity, the researchers report. https://phys.org/news/2013-07-college-diversity-benefits.html Social Sciences Mon, 22 Jul 2013 12:28:10 EDT news293714881 Some open-minded people can be swayed to support government intervention on climate change – but only if they are presented with both the benefits and the costs, a new study suggests. https://phys.org/news/2013-06-minds-climate-policy-donesometimes.html Environment Mon, 24 Jun 2013 15:47:30 EDT news291307636 People who are considered unattractive are more likely to be belittled and bullied in the workplace, according to a first-of-its-kind study led by a Michigan State University business scholar. https://phys.org/news/2013-06-ugly-unattractive-workers.html Social Sciences Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:03:20 EDT news290854993 A University of Manchester student is carrying out research to explore the parenting needs of families raising their children in refugee camps after fleeing the violence in Syria. https://phys.org/news/2013-06-explores-parenting-syrian-refugee-families.html Social Sciences Tue, 18 Jun 2013 07:00:36 EDT news290757624 Veterinary scientists at the University of Liverpool have developed a new tool to support clinicians in treatment programmes for osteoarthritis in dogs. https://phys.org/news/2013-06-tool-canine-arthritis.html Plants & Animals Tue, 04 Jun 2013 09:00:01 EDT news289554299 With more than a billion active accounts worldwide, it can be easy to forget that some people don't use Facebook. In fact, "non-use" of the social networking site is fairly common – one-third of Facebook users take breaks from the site by deactivating their account, and 11 percent completely quit, reports a study by Cornell researchers who will present their findings May 2 at the Association for Computing Machinery's Conference Human Factors in Computing Systems in Paris, France. https://phys.org/news/2013-05-facebook-users.html Internet Wed, 01 May 2013 08:47:42 EDT news286616838 (Phys.org) —Cognitive scientists at Lund University in Sweden have found that prospective voters in political elections are perhaps more open to opposing views than political pundits have claimed. The team describes in their paper published in PLOS ONE, how they rigged questionnaires filled out by random prospective voters to slant away from their stated political views and found that in many cases those that filled out the questionnaire were willing to agree with the forged results. https://phys.org/news/2013-04-choice-voters-malleable-thought-video.html Social Sciences Thu, 11 Apr 2013 06:10:35 EDT news284879389