Although many emerging adults find social interactions enjoyable on days with increased time alone, those who seek solitude as an escape from stress or unpleasant social circumstances may not, according to the results of a new study by University at Buffalo researchers.
According to new research former professional football players, particularly linemen, are more likely than non-players with similar demographic characteristics to develop diseases typically associated with advanced age when significantly younger.
According to a new study, online retailers increasingly use artificial intelligence chatbots to streamline customer service tasks and replace their human counterparts.
A new study led by the University of Bonn has now discovered a mechanism that lets nerve cells autonomously regulate their sensitivity to incoming signals.
Finding precise techniques to assess a treatment's or medication's efficacy is a significant difficulty when testing new therapies for people with intellectual disabilities.
London [UK], December 5 (ANI/PRNewswire): The International Aluminium Institute (IAI) has today released a report which explores the aluminium industry's current and potential contribution to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs).
Karolinska Institutet researchers have demonstrated that B lymphocytes, on which the efficient operation of the immune system depends, can occasionally cause more harm than good since their numbers sharply increase following intestinal trauma, impeding the healing process.
Even though a beekeeper puffing clouds of carbon dioxide into a hive to calm the insects is a familiar image to many, less is known about its other effects on bees.
Each individual has an individual chemical fingerprint. The composition of small molecules in the blood, such as fats or sugars, determines how our body reacts to external influences, which diseases we are susceptible to and how severe an illness will be.
For millennia, caves have served as shelters for prehistoric humans. Caves have also intrigued scholars from early Chinese naturalists to Charles Darwin. A cave ecologist has been in and out of these subterranean ecosystems, examining the unique life forms -- and unique living conditions --
A hydrologist in the IUPUI School of Science, Professor Lixin Wang, recently reviewed advances in the study of dryland productivity and examined major outstanding debates on dryland responses to environmental changes.
The pain of others is directly mapped onto neurons in the insula which is a brain region critical for our own emotions, finds a new study from the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience recorded from neurons of human patients.