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- Intrinsic Motivation Doesn't Exist, Researcher Says (2005) http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/inmotiv.htm 7 comments
- Multitasking May Hurt Your Performance, But It Makes You Feel Better http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/multitask.htm 2 comments
- Scientists over the age of 40 make most of the major breakthroughs http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/nobelage.htm 10 comments
- Psychologists Discover That People Subconsciously Take On Attributes Of Their Favorite Fictional Characters http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/exptaking.htm 2 comments science
- Worm-like mite species discovered: A species from this 'extremophile' family hasn't been described for 40 years http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/newmite.htm 6 comments science
- Breast-feeding Benefits Appear to be Overstated, According to Study of Siblings: Advantages of women who choose breast-feeding likely bias findings in previous research http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/sibbreast.htm 3 comments science
- Scientists chip away at the mystery of what lives in our mouths: Sequencing of harmless oral bacterium offers insights about its disease-causing relative http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/bacgenome.htm 5 comments science
- How a concussion can lead to depression years later: After brain injury, cells on ‘high alert’ prolong immune response, affecting behavior http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/tbidepress.htm 8 comments science
- Astronomers have calculated the odds that, sometime during the next 50 years, a supernova occurring in our home galaxy will be visible from Earth...they’ve calculated the odds to be nearly 100% that such a supernova would be visible to telescopes in the form of infrared radiation. http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/supernova50.htm 376 comments science
- Outlook is Grim for Mammals and Birds as Human Population Grows http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/humanftprint.htm 5 comments science
- New research suggests that a compound abundant in the Mediterranean diet takes away cancer cells’ “superpower” to escape death: By altering a very specific step in gene regulation, this compound essentially re-educates cancer cells into normal cells that die as scheduled http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/apigenin.htm 13 comments science
- The HPV vaccine can prevent both cervical cancer and a nasty sexually transmitted disease in women. But emphasizing the STD prevention will persuade more young women to get the vaccine, a new study suggests http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/hpvvaccine.htm 3 comments science
- Gender Bias Found in How Scholars Review Scientific Studies http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/matilda.htm 50 comments science
- Zinc Helps Against Infection by Tapping Brakes in Immune Response http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/zip8.htm 3 comments science
- False Beliefs Persist, Even After Instant Online Corrections - "a new study suggests that this type of tool like 'FactCheck' may not be a panacea for dispelling inaccurate beliefs, particularly among people who already want to believe the falsehood." http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/realtimecorr.htm 56 comments politics
- Ohio State University has developed technology to release the heat of coal without burning it. http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/looping203.htm 16 comments science
- Search for Life Suggests Solar Systems More Habitable than Ours http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/hotplanet.htm 22 comments science
- There has been so much ridiculous mish-mash concerning global warming/climate change here in America. I am a science kind of guy and the work by Dr. Thompson then acknowledged and reward by President George W. Bush is proof enough for me. Is there a credible argument disputing Thompson's research? http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/ltmdlsci.htm 45 comments science
- Scientists Dramatically Reduce Plaque-Forming Substances in Mice with Alzheimer’s Disease http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/jnk3.htm 12 comments science
- Study in Mice Discovers Injection of Heat-Generating Cells Reduces Belly Fat. The injection of a tiny capsule containing heat-generating cells into the abdomens of mice led those animals to burn abdominal fat and initially lose about 20 percent of belly fat after 80 days of treatment. http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/fatcapsule.htm 15 comments science
- Psychologists Discover That People Subconsciously Take On Attributes Of Their Favorite Fictional Characters http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/exptaking.htm 2433 comments science
- Angry? New study says simply imagining the scene from a distance lowers aggression. http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/selfdistance.htm 35 comments science
- You are what you read http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/exptaking.htm 69 comments science
- Obese women are likelier to have children with lower cognitive function http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/maternobesity.htm 67 comments science
- "A new study provides the best evidence to date that higher levels of income inequality in the United States actually lead to more deaths in the country over a period of years. The findings suggest that income inequality at any one point doesn't work instantaneously - it begins increasing mortality" http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/incmort.htm 5 comments politics
- 'Losing Yourself' In A Fictional Character Can Affect Your Real Life http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/exptaking.htm 140 comments books
- "The more afraid a person is of a spider, the bigger that individual perceives the spider to be, new research suggests. In the context of a fear of spiders, this warped perception doesn't necessarily interfere with daily living. But for individuals who are afraid of needles...the conviction that" http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/sizebias.htm 4 comments science
- Phobia's effect on perception of feared object allows fear to persist http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/sizebias.htm 15 comments cogsci
- Children don't give words special power to categorize their world http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/carroteater.htm 9 comments linguistics
- Astronomers Discover New Cancer Treatment http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/astrotherapy.htm 16 comments science
- Dinosaurs ended with a bang - Apparently that's also how they began http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/erthboom.htm 6 comments science
- Researchers Map The Sexual Network Of An Entire High School http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/chains.htm 146 comments science
- In All The Galaxy, Just 15 Percent Of Solar Systems Are Like Ours http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/planetrare.htm 5 comments science
- Quantum Computer Chips Now One Step Closer To Reality http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/cvddiode.htm 14 comments science
- When Europeans were slaves: Research suggests white slavery was much more common than previously believed. http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/whtslav.htm 115 comments worldnews
- Black raspberries may slow cancer by altering thousands of genes http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/berrygene.htm 52 comments science
- Another reason why Greenland 's ice is melting: Underground Magma http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/hotgreen.htm 10 comments science
- Intrinsic Motivation Doesn't Exist http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/inmotiv.htm?dupe=with_honor 3 comments reddit.com
- Researchers map the sexual network of an entire high school [non-linkjacked version, with fewer ads and a picture of the map] http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/chains.htm? 64 comments reddit.com
- Intrinsic Motivation Doesn't Exist, Researcher Says http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/inmotiv.htm 2 comments reddit.com