According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, demand for emergency health care services is rapidly increasing, causing over-crowding and long wait-times in emergency rooms nationwide. New research from Columbia […]
Research From Columbia Business School Reveals How To Shorten Emergency Room Wait Time
New Cocktail Fights Mosquitoes In A More Efficient And Eco-Friendly Way
Mosquitoes continue to build resistance to existing pesticides. Research has now shown that the chemical substances emitted by one of the mosquito’s natural enemies – the backswimmer – makes the biological pesticide […]
Why Prisons Continue To Grow, Even When Crime Declines
Study finds more offenders have criminal records The U.S. prison population continued to rise even after the crime rate began declining in the mid-1990s because judges were faced with more repeat offenders, […]
Have We Misunderstood Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder?
In understanding war-related post-traumatic stress disorder, a person’s cultural and professional context is just as important as how they cope with witnessing wartime events, which could change the way mental health experts […]
Smaller Hippocampus Not A Link Between Late-Life Depression And Alzheimer’s After All
In older adults with depression, the brain’s most important memory structure is often reduced in size. This structure, known as the hippocampus, is also smaller in the brain of patients with Alzheimer’s. […]
Presidential Candidates May Be Psychopaths – But That Could Be A Good Thing
A new study of psychopathic traits by Oxford University psychologist discovers that Donald Trump ranks above Adolf Hitler and only just below Idi Amin, Saddam Hussein and Henry VIII. Hillary Clinton ranks […]
Astronomers Identify A Young Heavyweight Star In The Milky Way
A young star over 30 times more massive than the Sun could help us understand how the most extreme stars in the Universe are born Astronomers have identified a young star, located […]
Viewing Video In Slow Motion Makes Action Appear More Intentional, New Study Finds
Watching a video of a harmful or violent act being committed can provide useful evidence of the circumstances surrounding the action. But new research shows that watching that same video in slow […]
NASA Unveils New Public Web Portal For Research Results
Public access to NASA-funded research data now is just a click away, with the launch of a new agency public access portal. The creation of the NASA-Funded Research Results portal on NASA.gov […]
Study Casts Doubt On Claim That People Are Over-Optimistic
A new study by King’s College London, UCL and Birkbeck, University of London, casts doubt over claims that people are inherently over-optimistic or ‘optimistically biased’ about the future. For many decades scientists […]
Aesthetics Over Athletics When It Comes To Women In Sport
Men are two to three times more likely than women to be mentioned when it comes to discussing sport and sporting achievement, according to new research by language experts at Cambridge University […]
Research Shows That Even In The For-Profit World, Employees Will Sacrifice Salary For Strong Corporate Social Responsibility
According to new research from Columbia Business School, workers of all ages increasingly value purpose and meaningfulness at work, so much so that they are willing to give up monetary benefits in […]
Greenland Shark Revealed To Have Longest Life Expectancy Of All Vertebrates
An international team of scientists led by the University of Copenhagen and including the University of Oxford has found that the Greenland shark has a life expectancy of at least 272 years. […]
How Are Leaders Working To Build A More Inclusive Capitalism?
This study is the result of months of research and individual interviews with heads of 40+ non-governmental organisations seeking to promote more inclusive economies. These organisations seek to directly influence key business […]
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