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New research has found that 16-to-20-year-olds with ADHD tend to consume more snacks (e.g., dried snacks, chips, nuts, soft drinks, fruit juice, and energy drinks) than their peers without this disorder. The paper was published in the Journal of Attention…
Could demographics be the key to understanding political change? A recent study published in Biodemography and Social Biology has found that conservatives in Europe tend to have more children and grandchildren than liberals, a trend that is shifting the balance…
An artist’s interpretation of a black hole surrounded by stars
Big enough to impress yet small enough to hold steady, the Nocs Field Tube 8×32 monocular offers crisp, colorful views and a rugged, waterproof build.
A recent study published in Neurology explored whether high doses of nicotinamide, a derivative of vitamin B3, could reduce a protein associated with Alzheimer’s disease progression. Despite promising results in animal models, the study found no significant reduction in the…
Antibiotic and antifungal drug resistance pose a major public health threat. Live Science is covering the spread of this problem and the potential solutions that are emerging in turn.
A recent study demonstrated that the ingestion of 2 mg of estradiol facilitates the extinction of a fear response but also contributes to its stronger return later. In contrast, the administration of progesterone did not show any effect on fear…
The art of space mission patches is now more than six decades old, dating to the Vostok 6 mission in 1963 that carried Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova into low-Earth orbit for nearly three days. The patch for the first female…
Embodied AI enables robots and autonomous drones to interact with the real world, but how does it work?
Created by a young star, the bipolar star-forming region Sharpless 2-106 in this Hubble image depicts how intense the star-formation process can get.
