News tagged with stress affects

Surviving the Christmas blues

Christmas is a time of strong emotions, reflections on lost loved ones and stress from shopping and preparing for seasonal parties and gatherings.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 13, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0




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From yeast, researchers learn how populations collapse

In the early 1990s, overfishing led to the collapse of one of the most bountiful cod fisheries in the world, off the coast of Newfoundland. Twenty years later, the cod population still has not recovered, dramatically ...

Biology / Ecology

created Jun 01, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 21 | with audio podcast

A legacy of the race to the south pole: New scientific discoveries in Antarctica

(Phys.org) -- This winter marks the 100th anniversary of the race to the South Pole. After crossing Antarctica-the coldest, windiest, driest continent on Earth-the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and his ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jun 01, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The myth of the disconnected telecommuter

(Phys.org) -- The assumption that employees who regularly telecommute will feel less attached to the organization they work for due to feeling isolated and disconnected is a myth, according to a study led ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created May 24, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Food, water safety provide new challenges for today's sensors

Sensors that work flawlessly in laboratory settings may stumble when it comes to performing in real-world conditions, according to researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Technology / Engineering

created May 24, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Wearable electronics - the next fashion fad?

(Phys.org) -- When most of us think of electronics, we think of the sturdy stability of silicon and plastic. Flexibility is a trait that belongs to the organic world, where materials come in all shapes and ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created May 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New model of geological strata may aid oil extraction, water recovery and Earth history studies

(Phys.org) -- A Sandia modeling study contradicts a long-held belief of geologists that pore sizes and chemical compositions are uniform throughout a given strata, which are horizontal slices of sedimentary ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Today's environment influences behavior generations later: research

Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin and Washington State University have seen an increased reaction to stress in animals whose ancestors were exposed to an environmental compound generations earlier. The findings, ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 21, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Surgical castration of cats, dogs leads to increased tendency to postoperative coagulation, inflammatory changes

Dogs and cats that are sterilised or castrated develop a stress response: inflammatory changes and an increased tendency to coagulation after the operation.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 18, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Education plays mitigating role in escaping roots of adversity: study

Decades of research show people born into poverty are likely to continue to live that way as adults. But one University of Georgia researcher has found a way out—education.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created May 18, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Research looks at impact on honeybees from chemicals and mites

(Phys.org) -- University of Florida honeybee researcher Jamie Ellis is interested in what happens to bees that encounter chemicals and Varroa mites — but he’s even more interested in how younger bees fare long-term ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 17, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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