Culture makes a significant difference in how people experience spirituality, according to new Stanford research.
Social Sciences
Dec 17, 2014
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The holidays are here, which means feeling guilty about how much you're eating and how little you're exercising. Gadgets are available to help keep that in balance.
Consumer & Gadgets
Dec 16, 2014
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Two new trials led by Oxford University will investigate whether teenagers would do better in their exams if they could sleep in and start school later, and whether physical fitness can improve academic achievement.
Social Sciences
Oct 9, 2014
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Tens of thousands of English schoolchildren will be given a lie-in or more rigorous sports classes as part of a major trial announced on Thursday to assess how advances in neuroscience can affect learning.
Social Sciences
Oct 9, 2014
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A tsetse fly bites a girl. She becomes itchy, feverish, and her joints ache. Weeks later, she loses coordination and some sensation in her limbs. It becomes difficult to think, to sleep.
Biochemistry
Oct 6, 2014
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In the Atlantic Forest of Brazil, leaf-cutter ants carry fresh foliage back to their home colony. There, the partially digested leaves nourish a "garden" of white fungus that the ants cultivate to feed their larvae, their ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 5, 2014
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Crafty parasites frequently undergo dramatic shape changes during their life cycles that enable them to adapt to different living conditions and thrive. But these transformations might not be as difficult as they appear, ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 4, 2014
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A BYU ecologist is playing a role in the effort to curb a deadly disease affecting developing nations across equatorial Africa.
Ecology
Jul 17, 2014
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Three weeks into ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst's Blue Dot mission on the International Space Station and the new arrival is now spending more time on scientific research in the microgravity laboratory.
Space Exploration
Jun 23, 2014
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A University of Liverpool study of fruit flies has revealed that males forced to compete with other males become less attractive to females and die young.
Plants & Animals
May 19, 2014
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