The way we feel about being touched—and the way we touch others—is shaped by our personal and generational affective history. Touch inequalities, too, are often transmitted through generations, a new study from the University ...
Feb 7, 2019
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Augmented reality is when apps and games overlay a real-time camera feed with images, characters and data to provide all kinds of interactive experiences. Pokémon GO is a very popular augmented reality game and University ...
Feb 5, 2019
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A sharp increase in obesity-linked cancers among young adults in the United States could foreshadow a reversal in the overall decline in cancer mortality, researchers warned Monday.
Feb 4, 2019
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Every year, about 11-20 million people get sick with typhoid and between 128 000 and 161 000 people die from it, according to the World Health Organization. It's a potentially fatal gastrointestinal infection caused by Salmonella ...
Jan 24, 2019
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In a popular BuzzFeed article, Anne Helen Petersen describes how millennials (people born between 1981 and 1996) became "the burnout generation". She describes some of the stark consequences of edging towards burnout and ...
Jan 22, 2019
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We work in a world of increasing ambiguity.
Jan 22, 2019
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The current ebolavirus outbreak in central Africa's Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) ranks as the second largest and second deadliest in history: more than 600 cases and more than 370 deaths as of January 6, according ...
Jan 10, 2019
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There are only 25 people in the whole of Quebec at the moment who have a rare recessive genetic disease called chronic atrial and intestinal dysrhythmia (CAID). It is a serious disease that affects both heart rate and intestinal ...
Dec 6, 2018
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A group of leading scientists has declared that it's still too soon to try making permanent changes to DNA that can be inherited by future generations, as a Chinese researcher claims to have done.
Nov 29, 2018
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San Diego State University psychology professor Jean Twenge sees smartphones and social media as raising an unhappy, compliant "iGen."
Nov 13, 2018
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