Imagine you're browsing the toothpaste aisle and see next to Colgate a new brand called Colddate, packaged in a box with similar colors and designs. "You might think this is clearly a copycat brand," said Ming Hsu, William ...
Social Sciences
Feb 8, 2023
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Hibernation is a state adopted by certain mammals as an adaptation to adverse winter conditions. Typical features of hibernation include greatly reduced metabolic activity and lowered body temperature.
Other
Dec 23, 2022
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Imagine a future where your hometown gets destroyed by some calamity. In the aftermath, how easily could you locate your home after your neighborhood has been transformed into a giant maze of rubble, leaving only minimal ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Aug 3, 2022
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A team of researchers from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) studying how the acoustic and visual composition of advertisements impact perceptions, has found that consumers associate a higher frequency ...
Economics & Business
May 23, 2022
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Data shows the activity may contribute to improving one's peripheral attention skills that are essential for reading ability.
Education
Mar 8, 2022
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Scientists say they have proven what many people fortunate enough to grow up with theirs have known all along: Grandmothers have strong nurturing instincts and are hard-wired to care deeply about their grandchildren.
Other
Nov 17, 2021
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How do birds make decisions and which brain regions are particularly active when they solve tasks? Researchers from the Department of Biopsychology at Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) are investigating these questions. So far, ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 18, 2020
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Most humans feel bad about hurting others. This so-called "harm aversion" is key to normal moral development and is reduced in violent antisocial individuals. Unfortunately, little is known about what makes people harm-averse, ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 5, 2020
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Dogs spontaneously process basic numerical quantities, using a distinct part of their brains that corresponds closely to number-responsive neural regions in humans, finds a study at Emory University.
Plants & Animals
Dec 17, 2019
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580
When it comes to food technology, the information shared on social media often trumps the facts put out by the scientific community and food experts, leading to the dissemination of disinformation, "fake news" and conspiracy ...
Social Sciences
Dec 11, 2019
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