Because sound travels much more slowly than light, we can often see distant events before we hear them. That is why we can count the seconds between a lightning flash and its thunder to estimate their distance.
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To understand how confidence in parenting may predict parenting behaviors in women who were abused as children, psychologists at the University of Rochester have found that mothers who experienced more types of maltreatment ...
Aug 29, 2015
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It's well known that being socially connected promotes a person's overall and psychological health. A new study from the University of Rochester now shows that the quantity of social interactions a person has at 20—and ...
Jul 23, 2015
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A majority of studies done on senior citizens focus on frailty, but only a small percentage of older adults are actually frail. In "Failing to focus on healthy aging: A frailty of our discipline?" set to be published in the ...
Jul 15, 2015
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Our brains track moving objects by applying one of the algorithms your phone's GPS uses, according to researchers at the University of Rochester. This same algorithm also explains why we are fooled by several motion-related ...
Jun 22, 2015
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Monkeys are notoriously curious, and new research has quantified just how eager they are to gain new information, even if there are not immediate benefits. The findings offer insights into how a certain part of the brain ...
Feb 12, 2015
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A protein newly found in the naked mole rat may help explain its unique ability to ward off cancer.
Feb 4, 2015
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Cognitive scientists at the University of Rochester say they have an alternative to the standard explanation for why order matters when the human mind processes information. Instead of ignoring the order in which people receive ...
Dec 15, 2014
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An interdisciplinary team of neuroscientists and neurosurgeons from the University of Rochester has used a new imaging technique to show how the human brain heals itself in just a few weeks following surgical removal of a ...
Dec 10, 2014
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A new study shows for the first time that playing action video games improves not just the skills taught in the game, but learning capabilities more generally.
Nov 10, 2014
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