News tagged with graduate student

Comparing yourself to others can have health impacts

(Medical Xpress) -- Comparing yourself to others with the same health problem can influence your physical and emotional health, according to researchers who conducted a qualitative synthesis of over 30 studies focusing on ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study finds leukemia cells are 'bad to the bone'

University of Rochester Medical Center researchers have discovered new links between leukemia cells and cells involved in bone formation, offering a fresh perspective on how the blood cancer progresses and raising the possibility ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Experiences are better when we know they're about to end

(Medical Xpress) -- People often view the "last" moments of an event positively simply because they signal the end of an experience, say University of Michigan researchers.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jan 25, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Trimming time in the stacks

A sophisticated text-analyzing tool developed by a UC Berkeley graduate student could speed literary searches for humanities scholars and other researchers.

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Dec 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Physicists report nanotechnology feat with proteins

(PhysOrg.com) -- UCLA physicists have made nanomechanical measurements of unprecedented resolution on protein molecules.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Dec 17, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Listening to the stars

It is almost night on the island of Puerto Rico. Astronomer Joanna Rankin raises her head toward the sky. A few of the brightest stars shine through blue cracks in a ragged dome of gray clouds. To her back, ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Why are California birds getting bigger?

Alfred Hitchcock would have appreciated this twist: The birds in central California are getting bigger.

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 11, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (8) | comments 17 | with audio podcast

How we create false memories: Assessing memory performance in older adults

A new study in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, published online October 26 addresses the influence of age-related stereotypes on memory performance and memory errors in older ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 04, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Taiwan to curb 'big-stomach' eating contests

Taiwan moved Thursday to curb eating contests, a fad that has caused at least one death, and suggested the national health insurance stop paying for participants seeking medical treatment afterwards.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 03, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

Can plagiarism be weeded out?

To cheat or not to cheat? It's a question scholars have grappled with for generations. For the majority of students, cheating is out of the question because success can only be achieved through honest and hard work, i.e. ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Oct 26, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Feeling entitled makes dull tasks drag on

(Medical Xpress) -- People who feel entitled may think performing dull tasks is a waste of their precious time, resulting in a perception that time passes slowly, according to a new University of Michigan ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Oct 03, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

PHD Comics hits the big screen

(PhysOrg.com) -- If you are a graduate student, you are more than likely aware of the popular Piled Higher and Deeper, or PHD, Comics created by Jorge Cham. These comics cover the everyday struggles that s ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Sep 16, 2011 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (11) | comments 6 | with audio podcast report

Safe and scientifically sound

In August, federal officials sent a letter to Yale University formally criticizing its safety practices in connection to the accidental death of a student.

Other Sciences / Other

created Sep 09, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 3

Seeing isn't believing

Pay attention! It's a universal warning, which implies that keeping close watch helps us perceive the world more accurately. But a new study by Yale University cognitive psychologists Brandon Liverence and Brian Scholl finds ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Sep 07, 2011 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (10) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Sex hormones impact career choices

(Medical Xpress) -- Teacher, pilot, nurse or engineer? Sex hormones strongly influence people's interests, which affect the kinds of occupations they choose, according to psychologists.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Sep 01, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 4 | with audio podcast