Psychology & Psychiatry

Q&A: Researcher discusses why 'hope scrolling' can be a good idea

It's no secret that the news has been full of doom and gloom. Algorithms have made doomscrolling, the act of consuming large amounts of dire content, all the easier because the more you look at a type of content, the more ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

'Alarming' COVID subvariants and the power of hybrid immunity

Jacob Lemieux, an infectious disease specialist at Massachusetts General Hospital and instructor at Harvard Medical School, said this week that recent COVID data out of South Africa is "alarming," as the omicron subvariants ...

Vaccination

Vaccine rollout not going well, say most Australians

Almost two-thirds of adult Australians, 64 percent, think the Government's COVID-19 vaccine rollout is not being handled well, a study from The Australian National University (ANU) shows.

Psychology & Psychiatry

The downside of feeling prepared: Unearned confidence in other areas

Feeling prepared and confident about a job interview you have tomorrow is great. But a new study suggests that you may bring that sense of confidence into other parts of your life for which you might not be nearly so prepared.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

France reports 761 more coronavirus deaths

France on Friday reported 761 more deaths from COVID-19 in hospitals and nursing homes over the last 24 hours, bringing the total toll in the country from the epidemic to 18,681.

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