- Rhinos get radioactive horns, will trigger nuclear alarms if poached | Witwatersrand University’s initiative could extend to protecting elephants, pangolins, and other endangered species. https://interestingengineering.com/science/live-rhino-gets-radioactive-horn 2 comments nature
- Aberdeen University criticised for putting trigger warnings on JM Barrie’s Peter Pan https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/aberdeen-aberdeenshire/5248303/aberdeen-university-faces-backlash-after-putting-trigger-warnings-on-beloved-childrens-book/ 31 comments nottheonion
- Air pollution increases exposure to a radioactive gas that triggers heart attacks and strokes, according to research from Harvard University. It contains colorless and odorless radon, which is also the leading cause of lung cancer in non-smokers. https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/JAHA.121.025470 12 comments science
- Beijing on Covid alert as university clusters trigger mass testing https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3192079/beijing-covid-alert-university-clusters-trigger-mass-testing?module=more_top_stories_int&pgtype=homepage 13 comments china
- University slaps a trigger warning on Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10430597/University-slaps-trigger-warning-George-Orwells-Nineteen-Eighty-Four.html 766 comments worldnews
- Brandeis University 'anti-violence' group now bans 'trigger warning' as 'violent language' https://www.tech-gate.org/usa/2021/06/24/brandeis-university-anti-violence-group-now-bans-trigger-warning-as-violent-language/ 1357 comments nottheonion
- Experiencing multiple stressors triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic – such as unemployment – and COVID-19-related media consumption are directly linked to rising acute stress and depressive symptoms across the U.S., according to a groundbreaking University of California, Irvine study. https://www.inquisitr.com/6289220/depression-stress-media-covid-pandemic/ 40 comments science
- A COVID-19 vaccine developed by the University of Oxford appears safe and triggers an immune response, reports new Lancet randomised controlled trial (20 July 2020) with 1,0770 participants. The adenovirus-vectored vaccine led to them making antibodies and T-cells that can fight the coronavirus. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/piis0140-6736(20)31604-4/fulltext 4 comments worldnews
- In a new paper published in "Learning and Memory", researchers from Boston University's Center for Systems Neuroscience reveal just how much power scents have in triggering the memory of past experiences—and the potential for odor to be used as a tool to treat memory-related mood disorders. http://www.bu.edu/articles/2020/its-true-scent-really-does-have-power-over-memory/ 7 comments science
- One of the world's most widely used glyphosate-based herbicides, Roundup, can trigger loss of biodiversity, making ecosystems more vulnerable to pollution and climate change, say researchers from McGill University. https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-03/mu-wuw030220.php 967 comments science
- Oxford University students want clapping banned over fears it triggers anxiety https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/17993481.oxford-university-bans-clapping-fears-triggers-anxiety/ 4 comments nottheonion
- Oxford University bans clapping to avoid triggering anxiety https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2019/10/oxford-university-bans-clapping-to-avoid-triggering-anxiety.html 9 comments nottheonion
- The wrong US response to Russia and China may trigger a “new Cold War,” warns Stanford University’s Larry Diamond | If America frames its response to Russia and China as one of “civilizational struggle,” Diamond says, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping will only get stronger. https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/8/7/20757886/russia-china-larry-diamond-ill-winds-book-stanford-hoover-kara-swisher-recode-podcast-interview 10 comments politics
- Clapping has been banned at University of Manchester Students’ Union events to avoid triggering anxiety and improve accessibility. Students are instead encouraged to use "jazz hands" to express their support. http://www.itv.com/news/granada/2018-10-02/manchester-student-union-bans-clapping-to-avoid-triggering-anxiety/ 4 comments nottheonion
- Melbourne’s water supply is at risk because decades of logging and forest loss from large bushfires has triggered imminent collapse of mountain ash forests in Victoria’s central highlands...government warned of likelihood of ecosystem collapse by Australian National University researches in 2015. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/may/01/melbournes-water-supply-at-risk-due-to-collapse-of-forests-caused-by-logging 10 comments worldnews
- Simply moving the eyes triggers the eardrums to move too, says a new study by Duke University neuroscientists. The researchers found that keeping the head still but shifting the eyes to one side or the other sparks vibrations in the eardrums, even in the absence of any sounds. http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/01/22/1717948115 4 comments science
- DNA vaccine promises permanent, universal protection against the flu - New vaccine contains DNA coding for proteins from four different flu strains, plus protein universally shared across all strains. A strong immune response was triggered in immunized primates when exposed to different strains. https://newatlas.com/dna-vaccine-flu-universal/52768/ 17 comments science
- Researchers at Harvard University have successfully injected an electronic neuromorphic mesh in the brains of mice without triggering an immune response - A step towards Neural Lace https://www.singularityarchive.com/injectable-brain-mesh-melds-neurons-without-causing-immune-response/ 13 comments technology
- Even small changes in global temperature can trigger a migration of the tropical rain belt. This can also lead to climate change, as described by a team of researchers from ETH Zurich and other universities. https://www.ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2017/04/little-ice-age-displaced-tropical-rain-belt.html 3 comments science
- Hungary's president signed legislation on foreign universities that could force a top international school founded by George Soros out of the country, triggering a fresh protest in Budapest against the move. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-hungary-soros-president-iduskbn17c23m 3 comments worldnews
- American University student government demands 'trigger warnings' be added to every class syllabus http://www.fox5dc.com/news/209955800-story 50 comments nottheonion
- Hofstra University Provides 'Trigger Warning' for Presidential Debate http://www.mrctv.org/blog/hofstra-university-provides-trigger-warning-presidential-debate 30 comments politics
- Finally: University of Chicago Warns Freshmen Not to Expect Safe Spaces, Trigger Warnings http://reason.com/blog/2016/08/25/finally-university-of-chicago-warns-fres 51 comments politics
- University of Chicago: 'We Do Not Support Trigger Warnings' http://time.com/4466021/uchicago-trigger-warnings/ 35 comments worldnews
- What would trigger a universal phase transition? https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/4qpdho/what_would_trigger_a_universal_phase_transition/ 5 comments askscience
- University students are being warned when classes contains graphic or sensitive content, including sexual abuse, rape and transgenderism, to protect their mental health. Australian academics are issuing so-called "trigger warnings" for confronting material in classrooms. http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/universities-pull-the-trigger-on-political-correctness-20160623-gpqeon.html 844 comments worldnews
- Newly released Trump testimony on Trump University could trigger video deposition battle http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/donald-trump-university-testimony-223908 9 comments politics
- Scientists at the John Innes Centre and the University of East Anglia have made an exciting discovery that could provide a new way to prevent bacterial infections in both humans and plants without triggering multi-drug resistance in bacteria http://phys.org/news/2016-02-scientists-disable-infectious-bacteria-key.html 4 comments science
- White Students Union posters removed from Toronto universities, club deemed "offensive", "triggering", and "hate speech" http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2015/09/14/white-students-union_n_8136808.html 60 comments worldnews
- Tiny black holes could trigger collapse of universe—except that they don't http://news.sciencemag.org/europe/2015/08/tiny-black-holes-could-trigger-collapse-universe-except-they-dont 10 comments science
- Brain activity in sex addiction mirrors that of drug addiction: Pornography triggers brain activity in people with compulsive sexual behaviour – known commonly as sex addiction – similar to that triggered by drugs in the brains of drug addicts, according to a University of Cambridge study http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/brain-activity-in-sex-addiction-mirrors-that-of-drug-addiction 24 comments science
- "Smellizing:" Advertisements with photos and smells suggestions can trigger smell memories, triggering increased consumption of cookies in a University of Michigan marketing professor's study. http://www.ns.umich.edu/new/releases/22015-a-picture-is-worth-a-thousand-smells 7 comments science
- “Other Universes are Pulling on Our Universe” — New Planck Data Triggers Controversy http://www.followfacts.com/other-universes-are-pulling-on-our-universe-new-planck-data-triggers-controversy-todays-most-popular/ 4 comments science
- Overcoming that fear can take a long time, but now researchers are saying it can be done in your sleep. Scientists at Northwestern University say they have lowered levels of fear in people by using certain odors to trigger and rechannel frightening memories into harmless ones during a deep slumber. http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/fear-memories-can-be-overcome-during-sleep-researchers-say/2013/09/22/6e36a6d2-223f-11e3-b73c-aab60bf735d0_story.html?tid=rssfeed 285 comments science
- Scientists from Cambridge University have found a "trigger" for the onset of Alzheimer's disease- a change in the structure of a protein causing a chain reaction of neuron death http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2013/05/22/1218402110.abstract 26 comments science
- ‘White Student Union’ tests college’s boundaries - An American university student is working to create the country’s 1st white student union, triggering debate over the limits of free speech. http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/12/04/white-student-union-tests-colleges-boundaries/ 10 comments politics
- Common Parasite May Trigger Suicide Attempts According To Michigan State University Researchers http://www.doctortipster.com/10789-recent-study-links-t-gondii-parasite-to-suicidal-attempts.html 155 comments science
- Antimatter Triggers Largest Explosion Ever Recorded in Universe http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2010/04/antimatter-supernova-the-largest-explosion-ever-recorded-----------------weve-recently-seen-the-largest-explosion-ever-recor.html 174 comments science
- "Talk to conservatives about the financial crisis and you enter a universe in which government bureaucrats, not greedy bankers, caused the meltdown, in which government-sponsored lending agencies triggered the crisis, even though private lenders actually made the vast majority of subprime loans." http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/14/opinion/14krugman.html?_r=1&ref=opinion 3 comments politics
- Two explosions, apparently triggered by suicide bombers, ripped through student areas of an Islamic university in Islamabad on Tuesday, killing at least four people, including a woman in the school’s gender-segregated cafeteria http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/21/world/asia/21pstan.html?_r=2&partner=rss&emc=rss 6 comments worldnews