Beat the heat: Virginia Tech team to study best ways to survive heat waves
Each year, heat waves kill more Americans than any other natural disaster. Climate change has exacerbated the problem by creating ...
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Study: Canada geese beat humans in longstanding territory battle
URBANA, Ill. – Canada geese collide with aircraft, intimidate unassuming joggers, and leave lawns and sidewalks spattered with prodigious piles ...
Gossypetin found in hibiscus may beat Alzheimer’s disease
A Cup of ruby red hibiscus tea not only warms the body in winter but also is known to boost ...
Rats bop to the beat
Accurately moving to a musical beat was thought to be a skill innately unique to humans. However, new research now ...
Crossword puzzles beat computer video games in slowing memory loss
A new study by researchers from Columbia University and Duke University published in the journal NEJM Evidence shows that doing ...
To break new ground with frequency combs, a NIST innovation plays with the beat
An improvement to a Nobel Prize-winning technology called a frequency comb enables it to measure light pulse arrival times with ...
Studying for SATs? Strategic self-control may beat pure willpower
In two surveys of nearly 20,000 high schoolers, students who reported using at least one self-control strategy—such as turning off ...
Keep the beat!
Rhythmic accuracy pays off, as researchers from Konstanz (Germany) and Israel show in their behavioural study on the courtship song ...
Keeping to a beat is linked to reproductive success in male Rock Hyraxes
A behavioural study published in the British Ecological Society’s Journal of Animal Ecology has linked reproductive success in male rock ...
Old drugs hint at new ways to beat chronic pain
Pain is an important alarm system that alerts us to tissue damage and prompts us to withdraw from harmful situations. ...
Innovation imprinting: Why some firms beat the post-IPO innovation slump
Researchers from Goethe University, Duke University, and London Business School published a new paper in the Journal of Marketing that explains why some ...
Turn up the beat! Groovy rhythm improves cognitive ability in groove enjoyers
Tsukuba, Japan—dancing to musical rhythms is a universal human activity. But now, researchers from Japan have found that dancing doesn't ...
Digital training at home to beat lockdown frustration
FRANKFURT. People were about 40 per cent less active during the first lockdown in the spring of 2020. This has ...
Music combined with auditory beat stimulation may reduce anxiety for some
Treatments integrating music and auditory beat stimulation are effective in reducing state anxiety in some patients, according to a new ...
When a protective gene buffers a bad one, a heart can beat
PITTSBURGH, Feb. 15, 2022 – It was a medical mystery: When University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine scientists induced a ...
These scientists are racing to beat Omicron
David Veesler and his lab members aren’t getting much sleep these days. Credit: The Veesler Lab David Veesler and his lab members ...