A68A was the sixth-largest iceberg on record when it broke off its ice shelf in July 2017. During the first two years of its life, the Weddell Sea near the Antarctic Peninsula was very cold and it stayed the same size. The European Space Agency called it a “mega iceberg.” Researchers from the …
152 billion tons of fresh water are released into the ocean by a massive iceberg. Read More »
Having more older brothers increases the chance that a person will get married to someone who is the same sex at some point in their lives according to a new study. These maternal antibodies build up over many pregnancies with male foetuses, which means that men with more older brothers are more likely …
In a study of couples trying to get pregnant, they found no link between COVID-19 vaccination and the chance of having a baby in women or men who had the Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, or Johnson & Johnson vaccines. Amelia Wesselink, an assistant professor of epidemiology at the School of Public Health and the study’s …
New research led by the University of Bristol says that being overweight may cause more hospitalizations and more diseases and deaths than previous studies say. The study, which was published in Economics and Human Biology, used a genetic method to look at the effect of body composition on more than 300,000 people who went …
People who are “successful psychopaths” might have a lot of charisma, according to new research in the. Welsh, a PhD student at The State University of New York at Binghamton, is one of the people who conducted the new research. It has found that some psychopathic people do well in their jobs, and they …
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 »
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 …
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 »
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 …
