So much of modern life is spent on screens: Zoom meetings and websites, smartphones and video games, televisions and social media. How are all those pixels and rectangles affecting how we see?
Feb 21, 2023
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Empathy is critical to having supportive conversations about mental health. But this skill can be tricky to learn, especially in the moment when a person is sharing something hard.
Jan 23, 2023
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Nature is a powerful tool that can be harnessed by social prescribers to improve people's health and well-being, according to a series of new evidence reviews led by a UCL researcher.
Dec 19, 2022
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A hallmark of autism spectrum disorder, ASD, is the reluctance to make eye contact with others in natural conditions. Although eye contact is a critically important part of everyday interactions, scientists have been limited ...
Nov 10, 2022
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As we write from New South Wales' Northern Rivers region, other parts of eastern Australia are facing conditions that recall uncomfortable memories from the 2017 floods and those in March this year. Many people are fatigued ...
Oct 25, 2022
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Twinkling lights make a city view all the more beautiful at night, and may evoke feelings of romance and happiness. But what do those feelings look like inside the brain? Recently, researchers in Japan demonstrated that the ...
Sep 22, 2022
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Teenagers become more exploratory in their behaviors with age, becoming increasingly likely to visit new places over time, finds a new study. Its results also show that greater exploration is associated with enhanced psychological ...
Sep 15, 2022
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It's been more than two years since the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 pandemic. Each of us vividly recalls the first confirmed cases being reported in our home towns. COVID-19 spread across the planet at ...
Sep 8, 2022
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Testosterone can foster friendly, prosocial behavior in males, a new animal study finds. The Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences published the research on Mongolian gerbils conducted by neuroscientists ...
Aug 11, 2022
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Come on, you know you do it.
Jul 13, 2022
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