Politics interferes with the ability to assess expertise | Joseph Marks

Oct. 23, 2018 (Phys.org) -- Learning about someone's political beliefs interferes with a person's ability to assess expertise, as people judge like-minded peers as being more expert in fields complet ...

A call to add a well-being index to national economic measures | Bob Yirka

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Oct. 19, 2018 (Phys.org) -- A trio of economists is suggesting that it is time to add a well-being index to national economic measures. Carol Graham with the Brookings Insti ...

Research shows signaling mechanism in the brain shapes social aggression | Shawn Tan

Credit: Martha Sexton/public domain Oct. 19, 2018 (MedicalXpress) -- Duke-NUS researchers have discovered that a growth factor protein, called brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), and its recept ...

America and Russia, Part Two: The Far Side of Progress | John Michael Greer

Credit: Dawid MichalczykOct. 17, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- Two weeks ago, in the first part of this sequence of posts, we explored the way that Oswald Spengler’s insights into the cycles of history can ...

Too much sleep bad for brain, study says | Conor Wild

Credit: University of Western Ontario Oct. 9, 2018 (MedicalXpress) -- Preliminary results from the world's largest sleep study have shown that people who sleep on average between seven to eight hours ...

Global warming will hike mental health woes, study finds | Nick Obradovich

Oct. 10, 2018 (Phys.org) -- Mental health problems will increase as temperatures rise due to climate change, a new study warns. The researchers said that over five years, a 1 degree Celsius (1.8 degr ...

Researchers uncover security gaps in the 5G mobile communication standard | Markus Gross

The 5G mobile radio standard still needs to be improved. Image: europeansanctions.com Oct. 10, 2018 (TechXplore) -- Researchers in the Information Security Group subjected the upcoming 5G mobile comm ...

Oysters at risk from changing climate | Yoann Thomas

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Oct. 9, 2018 (Phys.org) -- Climate change's effect on coastal ecosystems is very likely to increase mortality risks of adult oyster populations in the next 20 years. That is ...

Affable apes live longer | Drew M Altschul

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Oct. 9, 2018 (Phys.org) -- Male chimps that are less aggressive and form strong social bonds tend to live longer, research suggests. A study of hundreds of captive chimpanze ...

UN report on global warming carries life-or-death warning | Seth Borenstein

Oct. 8, 2018 (Phys.org) -- Preventing an extra single degree of heat could make a life-or-death difference in the next few decades for multitudes of people and ecosystems on this fast-warming planet, ...

The early universe was a fluid quark-gluon plasma | You Zhou

Fig. 1 An event from the first Xenon-Xenon collision at the Large Hadron Collider at the top energy of the Large Hadron Collider (5.44 TeV ) registered by ALICE . Every colored track (The blue lines) ...