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How arrival of land plants affected Earth's climate control system

London [UK], July 18 (ANI): Researchers at UCL and Yale suggest that the arrival of plants on the land about 400 million years ago might have changed the way the Earth naturally regulates its own climate.

2021-07-18T17:41:33.716252+00:00 IST

Idea sharing leads to increased online learner engagement

Washington [US], July 17 (ANI): Online learning engagement can be increased by nearly one-third by simply prompting students to share course ideas rather than personal details in the form of icebreakers and social introductions, a new study suggested.

2021-07-17T12:50:04.313688+00:00 IST

Rats prefer to help their own kind, humans may be similarly wired: Study

Washington [US], July 16 (ANI): A decade after scientists discovered that lab rats will rescue a fellow rat in distress, but not a rat they consider an outsider, new research from the University of California, Berkeley, pinpoints the brain regions that drive rats to prioritise their nearest and dearest in times of crisis. It also suggests humans may share the same neural bias.

2021-07-16T17:22:36.507245+00:00 IST

Spending time outdoors has a positive effect on the brain: Study

Washington [US], July 16 (ANI): If you're regularly out in the fresh air, you're doing something good for both your brain and your well-being, according to a new study.

2021-07-16T15:27:03.571013+00:00 IST

Celebrating the artform of body ink on National Tattoo Day 2021

New Delhi [India], July 16 (ANI): There is something about permanently etching a story into your flesh that draws the heart and inspires the mind. National Tattoo Day is celebrated annually to commemorate the history, culture, and artists dedicated to this age-old art form.

2021-07-16T13:48:38.851677+00:00 IST

Study finds communication strongly linked to productivity in a software organisation

Washington [US], July 15 (ANI): A novel analysis of three years of conversations at a software engineering organisation suggested a strong relationship between communication and productivity.

2021-07-15T15:34:08.777528+00:00 IST

Idea sharing increases online learner engagement: Study

Washington [US], July 14 (ANI): According to a new study, sharing ideas in an online learning environment has a distinct advantage over sharing personal details in driving learner engagement in massive open online courses, more commonly known as MOOCs.

2021-07-14T16:06:03.612314+00:00 IST

Study finds teens with self-harm history have significantly higher pain threshold

London [UK], July 13 (ANI): Teenagers, who have self-harmed five or more times in their life, have a significantly higher threshold for pain compared to adolescents that have not, suggested a new research from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King's College London, in collaboration with Glasgow University.

2021-07-13T17:39:12.281326+00:00 IST

Study explores the outsized impacts of rudeness at workplace

Washington [US], July 10 (ANI): A new study has found that rudeness can boost negative emotions, narrowing workers' perceptions and incurring biases in judgment.

2021-07-10T16:00:22.865965+00:00 IST

When bosses are rude, how employees interpret their motives makes a difference: Study

Washington [US], July 10 (ANI): A new UBC Sauder School of Business study showed that depending on how employees understand their boss' motivation, employees can feel anger or guilt, and consequently, react differently to abusive supervision.

2021-07-10T15:48:02.919759+00:00 IST

Recovery of language functions after stroke can be boosted by vocal music

Washington [US], July 10 (ANI): The findings of a new study suggest that listening to music daily improves language recovery in patients who have experienced a stroke, even though the neural mechanisms underlying the phenomenon have so far remained unknown.

2021-07-10T11:26:43.341651+00:00 IST

Study sheds light on benefits of handwriting over typing, watching videos for learning

Washington [US], July 9 (ANI): Though writing by hand is increasingly being eclipsed by the ease of computers and phones, a new study has found that handwriting helps people learn certain skills surprisingly faster and significantly better than learning the same material through typing or watching videos.

2021-07-09T13:57:53.232789+00:00 IST

Study evaluates the outsized impacts of rudeness at workplace

Washington [US], July 9 (ANI): A new study found that rudeness can boost negative emotions, narrowing workers' perceptions and incurring biases in judgment. The findings of the study suggested that in certain situations, these behaviours can have deadly consequences.

2021-07-09T10:30:45.785637+00:00 IST

When taste and healthfulness compete, taste has a hidden advantage!

Washington [US], July 8 (ANI): You dash into a convenience store for a quick snack, spot an apple and reach for a candy bar instead. Poor self-control may not be the only factor behind your choice, a new research suggested.

2021-07-08T12:26:15.584908+00:00 IST

Not only humans, dogs got talent too!

Washington [US], July 7 (ANI): Is talent in a given field a uniquely human phenomenon? We do not know whether gifted bees or elephants exist, just to name a few species, but now there is evidence that talent in a specific field exists, in at least one non-human species: the dog.

2021-07-07T14:41:26.419037+00:00 IST

Study finds boys disliking fiction reading is a myth

London [UK], July 7 (ANI): The findings of a new study suggest that gender stereotypes around reading might be the factor holding boys back in the classroom.

2021-07-07T13:38:40.601242+00:00 IST

New online calculator might help predict end-of-life care needs, death for older adults

Ontario [Canada], July 6 (ANI): In order to help understand the changing care needs of older adults as they age and when they might be nearing the end of their lives, scientists recently developed a new calculator that can help predict death and end-of-life care needs for them.

2021-07-06T11:55:45.737126+00:00 IST

Study finds male dragonflies lose their 'bling' in hotter climates

Washington [US], July 6 (ANI): A study led by Michael Moore at Washington University in St. Louis found that dragonfly males have consistently evolved less breeding colouration in regions with hotter climates.

2021-07-06T11:09:41.570947+00:00 IST

Personal input in surveys can't be replaced by big data

Munich [Germany], July 5 (ANI): Methods that focus on observations made by individuals can be useful when the analysis of digital data reaches its limits. In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, a method called human social sensing might elicit information that is difficult to obtain from digital trace data.

2021-07-05T13:08:03.262769+00:00 IST

Just enough information will motivate preschool children to learn more: Study

Washington [US], July 3 (ANI): Preschool children are naturally curious to learn more but the difficult question of how to harness this natural curiosity has been detailed by researchers at the Rutgers University.

2021-07-03T12:11:04.873216+00:00 IST

Direct deposit is 'digital empowerment' for women workers in India

Connecticut [US], July 2 (ANI): During a new study, co-authored by Yale economists Rohini Pande and Charity Troyer Moore, giving greater digital control over their wages to women in India's Madhya Pradesh led them to enter the labour force and also liberalised their beliefs about working women.

2021-07-02T13:27:01.837110+00:00 IST