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When will scientists learn to use fewer acronyms? —
Have you heard of DNA? It stands for Do Not Abbreviate apparently. Jokes aside, it's the most widely used acronym in scientific…
Studying water polo for kicks —
Researchers at the University of Tsukuba used high-speed cameras and pressure sensors to quantify the force created by water polo…
Atheists are more likely to sleep better than Catholics and Baptists, study…
A new study of sleep, religious affiliation, and perceptions of heaven found that atheists and agnostics are significantly more…
Why We May Never Know Whether the $56,000-a-Year Alzheimer’s Drug Actually…
The Food and Drug Administration’s approval in June of a drug purporting to slow the progression of Alzheimer’s disease…
Biden Is Caught in the Middle of Polarizing Abortion Politics
It took five months for the Biden administration to make a substantive policy change to advance abortion rights. And…
Government Oversight of Covid Air Cleaners Leaves Gaping Holes
Stephen Matthew Shumaker counted on in-home, in-person demonstrations to drive his water filtration business, which…
Future autonomous machines may build trust through emotion —
Army research has extended the state-of-the-art in autonomy by providing a more complete picture of how actions and nonverbal…
When bots do the negotiating, humans more likely to engage in deceptive…
Recently computer scientists at USC Institute of Technologies (ICT) set out to assess under what conditions humans would employ…
Higher narcissism may be linked with more political participation —
A politically engaged electorate is key to any thriving democracy, but not everyone participates in elections and other political…
Typeface that looks like handwriting works best with warm message, study…
Appeals seeking donations to help fight hunger during the COVID-19 pandemic were more successful when the typeface in which the…