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Category: Social Sciences

Health Psychology 

How the Placebo Effect “Tricks” the Brain

April 3, 2023March 25, 2023 Science Connectedmedicine

You have probably heard of the placebo effect, but what is it and how does it work? Can something that’s in our heads actually provide relief?

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children learn language Linguistics Psychology 

How Children Learn Language

March 24, 2023March 18, 2023 Science Connectedlanguage, psychology

Children learn language for the first time in a cool way, and the good news is that adults can, too. Find out how.

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Art therapy graphic by Sayan Roy. Arts and Humanities Neuroscience Psychology 

Magic Makers: Art Therapy for Neuropsychiatric Patients

March 15, 2023March 14, 2023 Science Connectedart, brain, neurology, psychology

Art therapy may help adults with mild cognitive impairment feel happier and more empowered—and slow the progress of cognitive decline.

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why we prefer villains who remind us of ourselves Psychology 

Why People Are Drawn to Fictional Villains

February 1, 2023January 30, 2023 Science Connectedpsychology

Why do people love some fictional villians more than heros? Much like the villains themselves, the answer is complex and, well, interesting.

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Two men of color cuddle on a home's front steps. Favorite Songs Link Up to Attachment Styles. Psychology Social Sciences 

Favorite Songs Link Up to Attachment Styles

November 27, 2022November 26, 2022 Science Connectedanxiety, attachment style, music, psychology, relationships

Attachment styles affect relationship dynamics and also, according to a new psychology study, an individual’s music preferences.

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University of Vermont scientists Peter Dodds and Chris Danforth led a new Big Data study confirming that humans use more happy words than sad words. Psychology 

Preference for Positive, Happy Words

October 21, 2022October 20, 2022 Science Connectedcommunication, computer science, engineering, language, linguistics, technology

Scientists have used a massive data set of billions of words from actual usage to find that people around the world use more happy words than sad words.

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Chemistry on EH Science Archaeology Biology Neuroscience 

Can You Smell Handshakes?

May 30, 2022May 30, 2022 Science Connectedbehavior, neurobiology, smell

Why do people shake hands? A Weizmann Institute study suggests one of the reasons for handshakes may be to discretely sniff each other.

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All of Us project addresses the problem of lack of diversity in medicine Citizen Science Diversity in Science Genetics and Heredity 

All of Us: A Lack of Diversity in Medicine

April 15, 2022April 17, 2022 Science Connectedcitizen science projects, diversity, genome

With the release of its first 100,000 genomes this project is solving a dangerous problem: a startling lack of diversity in medicine.a

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Gold jewelry from Senuna Roman Britain (Photo courtesy of Elizabethe via Flickr) Archaeology 

Archaeologists at Ancient Roman Gold Mines

March 9, 2022March 9, 2022 Science Connectedarchaeology, mining

Archaeologists in Spain studying Las Médulas, the largest known ancient Roman gold mine, found a bigger operation than previously thought.

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Greek technical diver Alexandros Sotiriou discovers an intact ceramic table jug and a bronze rigging ring on the Antikythera Shipwreck. (Brett Seymour, Return to Antikythera 2014) Archaeology 

Underwater Archaeology, Ancient Shipwreck

March 2, 2022March 2, 2022 Science Connectedhuman civilization

An underwater archaeology team has retrieved new finds from an ancient Greek ship that sank over 2,000 years ago.

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Spotlight: Environment

A wheat field in the Mpika District, Muchinga Province, Zambia, showing symptoms of wheat blast during the outbreak of March 2018. Credit: Batiseba Tembo, Zambia Agriculture Research Institute; license CC by 4.0 Biology Botany Ecology Environment 

Genomics Takes On Crop Disease

June 6, 2023June 6, 2023 Science Connectedagriculture, crops, ecology, environment, genome, pathogens, plants
Genomics opens the way for scientists to track where and which plants are affected most by rapidly spreading pathogens.
Earth Day 2020 Environment 

Earth Day: Get Informed, Get Involved

April 21, 2023April 21, 2023 Science Connectedenvironmental health
Earth Day is celebrated every year on April 22. Learn more and find out how to get involved in an Earth...
A stream filling a glass of water. Water quality may be headed for a rise as scientists work to develop new technology that uses bacteria to detect harmful heavy metals in water.

Water Quality Monitoring by Bacterial Biosensors

March 20, 2023March 14, 2023 Science Connectedbacteria, heavy metals, water contamination, water pollution, water testing
People putting plastic bottles in recycling bin.

Bacteria Has Natural Capacity to Recycle Plastics

March 10, 2023March 9, 2023 Science Connectedbacteria, plastic pollution, recycling
Researchers have developed a recycling system that can transform plastic waste and greenhouse gases into sustainable fuels and other valuable products–using just the energy from the sun. Image credit: University of Cambridge

Sunlight Powers Recycling of Carbon Dioxide and Plastic

February 15, 2023February 14, 2023 Science Connectedbiofuel, carbon dioxide, plastic pollution, recycling, solar power
Brown algae are particularly widespread on rocky shores in temperate and cold latitudes and there absorb large amounts of carbon dioxide from the air worldwide. Credit: Hagen Buck-Wiese/Max Planck Institute For Marine Microbiology

How Brown Algae Mucus Combats Carbon Dioxide

February 10, 2023February 14, 2023 Science Connectedalgae, carbon dioxide, carbon fixing, climate change, seawater
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