People who take psychedelics are more likely to report having psychosis-like symptoms, but this is mostly because they have other mental health problems and have used other psychoactive drugs before. In a study published in the journal Scientific Reports, researchers found that people who took psychedelics learned to better integrate evidence and be …
The brain when asleep is more active when it hears unfamiliar voices than when it hears ones it recognizes. In a sleep lab in Austria, Manuel Schabus and his team watched 17 people, with an average age of 23, for two nights. They looked at how they slept and how they woke up. Schabus …
Hearing unfamiliar sounds stimulates the brain more than familiar ones. Read More »
It was Baerbock’s first trip to Ukraine as a member of the Green Party. She said she was open to serious talks about security, but she was not willing to back down “on basic principles like territorial inviolability, the free choice of alliances and the renunciation of the threat of violence.” She said that …
If Russia attacks Ukraine, the German minister says, Russia will pay a “high price.” Read More »
Tennis player Novak Djokovic walks through Melbourne Airport before getting on a plane after the Federal Court upheld a government decision to cancel his visa to play in the Australian Open. This happened in Melbourne, Australia, on January 16, 2022. When Djokovic tried to get his visa back, the Serbian lost in court. …
Djokovic is out of the French Open if he doesn’t get vaccinated. Read More »
A first-of-its-kind study, published in Frontiers in Psychology, looked into this behavior by looking at short political video ads that were meant to either move or anger voters. This has implications for how parties communicate their messages and spend their ad dollars. No surprise there: People can either be moved or irritated by political …
Facebook is facing a class-action lawsuit in the UK that could make its parent company Meta pay $3.1 billion to its UK users because it used their data without consent. The lawsuit claims 44 million British users should get money from Facebook because it took all of their personal and private information from 2015 …
Research done before the pandemic found that wearing medical face masks made people less attractive because they were linked to sickness or disease. Dr. Michael Lewis, a psychology reader at Cardiff University, said this: “Our study suggests faces are considered most attractive when covered by medical face masks.” This may be because we’re …
A new study reveals that wearing a face mask increases one’s attractiveness. Read More »
Ukraine has been hit by a “massive” cyber-attack, which has taken down the websites of several government departments, including the ministry of foreign affairs and the ministry of education. Officials said it was too soon to draw any conclusions, but they said there had been a “long history” of Russian cyber attacks against Ukraine. …
Government websites in Ukraine have been subjected to a massive cyberattack. Read More »
It turns out that men who live alone for a long time and have had a lot of breakups are more likely to have health problems than women. Living alone for more than six years and having two or more breakups raise the risk of high inflammation in men, but not women, a study …
A new study has found that swapping just one serving of beef a day with chicken could cut one’s greenhouse gas emissions by an average of 48% and water use by 30%. This could be a great way for many to start the new year if your resolution was to try to be more …
Diets may be made significantly more eco-friendly by simply swapping out one ingredient. Read More »
