Search For "study"
People prefer familiarity over novelty in the end: Research
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 7 (ANI): According to research published by the American Psychological Association, when people believe that a door is closing-- that they have a limited amount of time left to enjoy something, such as dining out or travelling -- they gravitate to the comfort of some
Read More
Rise in infant BMI observed during pandemic: Study
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 7 (ANI): A study that examined body mass index (BMI) in mainly Medicaid younger patients in Norfolk, Virginia, two years before and one year after the pandemic began and discovered a significant increase in BMI during that time.
Read More
Study suggests baby's ability to speak is influenced by mother's mood
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 7 (ANI): Analysis has shown that postnatal depressive mood can also affect the development of children and their speech. However, until now it was unclear exactly how this impairment manifests itself in early language development in infants.
Read More
Study reveals how the smell of food can enable 'time travel'
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 7 (ANI): Older people exposed to food flavours from their youth were able to 'time travel' back to the past with an enhanced memory of the event. For food memory, the researchers worked with the participants to create bespoke flavor-based cues for each one. The 3D pr
Read More
Study: New symptom-based screening technique for detecting asthma risk in
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Hamilton (Ontario) [Canada], October 7 (ANI): A team of researchers affiliated with the CHILD Cohort Study (CHILD) has created a simple new symptom-based screening technique for detecting asthma risk in children as early as two years old.
Read More
Dinosaur-killing asteroid triggered 'mega-earthquake': Study
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 7 (ANI): 66 million years ago, a 10-kilometre asteroid hit Earth, triggering the extinction of the dinosaurs. New evidence suggests that the Chicxulub impact also triggered an earthquake so massive that it shook the planet for weeks to months after the collision. The
Read More
Adult brain has ability to recover vision: New research
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 7 (ANI): A discovery about how some visually impaired adults could start to see offers a new vision of the brain's possibilities. The adult brain has the potential to partially recover from inherited blindness, according to new research.
Read More
2 female Indian students win prestigious Victorian Premier's Award
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Canberra [Australia], October 7 (ANI): Two female Indian students in Australia - Divyangana Sharma and Ritika Saxena - have won the prestigious Victorian Premier's award.
Read More
'Fear of Missing Out' among college students is linked to illegal behaviou
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 6 (ANI): Most people experience the fear of missing out (FoMO) on rewarding and enjoyable experiences at some point in their lives. According to a new study, the degree to which someone experiences FOMO is associated with their risk of engaging in maladaptive behavio
Read More
Schizophrenia might enhance dementia risk 2.5 times
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 6 (ANI): According to a study, people with psychotic illnesses such as schizophrenia are 2.5 times more likely to develop dementia than those who do not have a psychotic disorder.
Read More
Researchers reveal how brain-like organoids develop, lead to autism in peo
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 6 (ANI): Researchers found that in any case, the seed-sized organoids, which are generated in the lab from human cells, give insights into the brain and reveal variations that may lead to autism in some people. They also advised not to call them "mini-brains in recen
Read More
Survival rates for deadliest types of pancreatic cancer vary: Study
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
San Diego [US], October 6 (ANI): The most prevalent and fatal kind of pancreatic cancer is pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC). PDAC patients have a 5-year survival rate of only 7.1 per cent.
Read More