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- Why your best ideas come while showering https://news.virginia.edu/content/finally-real-answer-why-your-best-ideas-come-while-showering 2 comments
- Doing something is better than doing nothing for most people: study (2014) https://news.virginia.edu/content/doing-something-better-doing-nothing-most-people-study-shows 194 comments
- Cold War-Era Spy Satellite Images Reveal Possible Effects of Climate Change https://www.news.virginia.edu/content/cold-war-era-spy-satellite-images-reveal-possible-effects-climate-change 36 comments
- New research shows brain is directly connected to the immune system https://news.virginia.edu/illimitable/discovery/theyll-have-rewrite-textbooks 35 comments
- ‘Rice Theory’ Explains North-South China Cultural Differences, Study Shows http://news.virginia.edu/content/rice-theory-explains-north-south-china-cultural-differences-study-shows 24 comments
- This Professor’s Comic Can Help You Get Through Climate Change https://news.virginia.edu/content/professors-comic-can-help-you-get-through-climate-change 2 comments climate
- University of Virginia scientists have identified a calorie-restriction pathway that extends the lifespan of worms and yeast by reducing levels of glycerol. https://news.virginia.edu/content/uva-anti-aging-discovery-could-extend-lifespan 13 comments science
- Antidepressant Use and Infection During Pregnancy Linked to Neurodevelopmental Disorders: Antidepressant use during pregnancy, when combined with inflammation, may heighten the risk of lifelong neurodevelopmental changes in babies’ brains, such as those linked to autism. https://news.virginia.edu/content/mothers-antidepressant-use-plus-infection-linked-neurodevelopmental-disorders 42 comments science
- Killer Robots Have Been Approved to Fight Crime. What Are the Legal, Ethical Concerns? https://news.virginia.edu/content/killer-robots-have-been-approved-fight-crime-what-are-legal-ethical-concerns 22 comments law
- How Do SSRIs Like Prozac, Lexapro Really Work? Ask a Fruit Fly https://news.virginia.edu/content/how-do-ssris-prozac-lexapro-really-work-ask-fruit-fly 3 comments health
- Finally, the real answer why your best ideas come during showering: research shows why a wandering mind sometimes comes up with creative solutions to a problem when a person is engaged in a "mindless" task https://news.virginia.edu/content/finally-real-answer-why-your-best-ideas-come-while-showering 62 comments science
- Astronomer: Moon Mission Can Reignite Interest in Space and Science https://news.virginia.edu/content/astronomer-moon-mission-can-reignite-interest-space-and-science 13 comments space
- NASA Administrator Bill Nelson talks Asteroid, receiving classified briefings on UAP, and ‘Star Trek’ With Larry Sabato https://news.virginia.edu/content/space-jam-former-senator-talks-aliens-asteroids-and-star-trek-larry-sabato 13 comments futurology
- Nasa Administrator Bill Nelson Talks Asteroids, receiving classified briefings on UAP, and ‘Star Trek’ With Larry Sabato https://news.virginia.edu/content/space-jam-former-senator-talks-aliens-asteroids-and-star-trek-larry-sabato 4 comments space
- More than a third of coal miners and former coal miners suffering from black lung disease struggle with depression, and more than one in 10 has recently considered suicide. Researchers are calling for more mental health resources and treatment for current and former miners https://news.virginia.edu/content/depression-suicidal-thoughts-plague-ailing-coal-miners-study-finds 691 comments science
- Children and young adults who receive CAR T-cell therapy for the most common childhood cancer, acute lymphoblastic leukemia, suffer remarkably fewer relapses and are far more likely to survive when the treatment is paired with a subsequent stem cell transplant, a new study finds https://news.virginia.edu/content/study-stem-cell-transplants-prevent-relapses-most-common-childhood-cancer 3 comments science
- Sweden’s controversial decision not to lock down during COVID-19 produced more deaths and greater health care demand than seen in countries with earlier, more stringent interventions. Sweden fared better than would be expected from its public health mandates alone https://news.virginia.edu/content/lack-covid-19-lockdown-increased-deaths-sweden-analysis-concludes 446 comments science
- 4-year-olds adopt pay-it-forward sharing behavior in a new study, but 3-year-olds in the same study do not. This may suggest when such kindness consideration begins developmentally. https://news.virginia.edu/content/generosity-breeds-generosity-4-year-olds-who-receive-kindness-pay-it-forward 29 comments science
- Nearly 130 people in the United States commit suicide every day. New work at the University of Virginia suggests that language used in text messages may one day help clinicians predict an increased risk of a suicide attempt in real time. https://news.virginia.edu/content/new-research-finds-text-messages-can-help-predict-suicide-attempts 63 comments science
- Teens who have healthy same-gender friendships, especially with best friends, are more likely to find romantic fulfillment as young adults, finds a new study, but physical attractiveness or the amount of romantic or sexual experience as a teen did not predict this. https://news.virginia.edu/content/having-teen-bestie-can-predict-satisfaction-adult-romantic-relationships 144 comments science
- Teens who have high-quality, same-sex friendships, especially with best friends, are more likely to find romantic fulfillment as young adults, finds a new study. However, physical attractiveness or the amount of romantic or sexual experience as a teen did not predict future romantic fulfilment. https://news.virginia.edu/content/having-teen-bestie-can-predict-satisfaction-adult-romantic-relationships 4 comments science
- The University of Virginia Plans New School of Data Science; $120 Million Gift is Largest in University's History https://news.virginia.edu/content/uva-plans-new-school-data-science-120-million-gift-largest-university-history?amp%3Butm_campaign=news&%3Butm_medium=referral#engineer 8 comments datascience
- The University of Virginia Plans New School of Data Science; $120 Million Gift is Largest in University's History https://news.virginia.edu/content/uva-plans-new-school-data-science-120-million-gift-largest-university-historyd-data/article_1694f330-1ab3-11e9-9243-7f3eeacb6e94.html 4 comments datascience
- Study: Alzheimer’s Drug May Stop Disease if Used Before Symptoms Develop. Research offers new understanding of how the disease develops at the molecular level, long before extensive neuronal damage occurs and symptoms show up. https://news.virginia.edu/content/study-alzheimers-drug-may-stop-disease-if-used-symptoms-develop?utm_source=virginiafeed&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news 8 comments science
- Women More Likely to Suffer Sports-Related Concussions, Studies Suggest https://www.news.virginia.edu/content/women-more-likely-suffer-sports-related-concussions-studies-suggest 7 comments science
- Green Beret Leaves Darden School of Business to Redeploy to Afghanistan, Returns with Silver Star https://news.virginia.edu/content/michael-sargent-left-darden-redeploy-afghanistan-and-returned-hero 52 comments army
- Study suggests bullying is trending down, contradicting the public's misperception that it is on the rise. That is coupled with an increase in students’ feelings of safety and belonging at their schools and perceptions that adults help to stop bullying. https://news.virginia.edu/content/new-study-shows-bullying-schools-down-feelings-safety-are 19 comments science
- A pilot study of 12 young children (aged 5-8) with Type 1 diabetes found that an artificial pancreas (smartphone with wireless blood sugar monitor and insulin pump without need to stick fingers) helped study participants better control their condition compared to their usual insulin pump. https://news.virginia.edu/content/artificial-pancreas-benefits-young-children-uva-trial-shows 22 comments science
- The seeds of personal and social morality emerge as early as 5 years of age, finds a University of Virginia psychologist in a study published in Cognition. https://news.virginia.edu/content/when-do-children-show-morality 5 comments science
- According to new research, widespread adoption of genetically modified crops has decreased the use of insecticides, but increased the use of weed-killing herbicides as weeds become more resistant. https://news.virginia.edu/content/largest-ever-study-reveals-environmental-impact-genetically-modified-crops 13 comments science
- The brain is directly connected to the immune system by vessels previously thought not to exist https://news.virginia.edu/illimitable/discovery/theyll-have-rewrite-textbooks 8 comments science
- Mounting Evidence Suggests Early Agriculture Staved Off Global Cooling https://news.virginia.edu/content/mounting-evidence-suggests-early-agriculture-staved-global-cooling 79 comments science
- Conforming and Following the Pack in Adolescence Predicts Physical Wellness Down The Road http://www.news.virginia.edu/content/study-following-pack-adolescence-leads-health-benefits-down-road 5 comments science
- Researchers find novel link between brain, immune system, with major disease implications https://news.virginia.edu/content/researchers-find-textbook-altering-link-between-brain-immune-system 78 comments science
- [Biology] Researchers Find Textbook-Altering Link Between Brain, Immune System http://www.news.virginia.edu/content/researchers-find-textbook-altering-link-between-brain-immune-system 7 comments science
- Study: American Liberals and Conservatives Think as if From Different Cultures https://news.virginia.edu/content/study-american-liberals-and-conservatives-think-if-different-cultures 91 comments politics
- Infants at 7 months old are able to unconsciously pick up on eye cues, based on the size of the whites of a person's eyes -- a vital foundation for the development of social interactive skills, https://news.virginia.edu/content/whites-their-eyes-study-finds-infants-respond-social-cues-sclera 10 comments science
- ‘Rice Theory’ Explains North-South China Cultural Differences, Study Shows http://news.virginia.edu/content/rice-theory-explains-north-south-china-cultural-differences-study-shows 5 comments science
- Haskell causes a revolution at the University of Virginia Engineering School https://news.virginia.edu/content/programming-languages-auto-mechanics-engineering-students-give-teaching-try 5 comments haskell
- Brain May ‘See’ More Than the Eyes, Study Indicates. Vision may be less important to “seeing” than is the brain’s ability to process points of light into complex images, according to a new study of the fruit fly visual system currently published in the online journal Nature Communications. http://news.virginia.edu/content/brain-may-see-more-eyes-study-indicates 4 comments science