Religion and nature can both lead to awe, and may be a common coping strategy for stress

Social media sites like Facebook often present users with social exclusion information that may actually inhibit intelligent thought, according to a new study.

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Vulnerable youth stress the importance of influential adults in their school lives - even the most vulnerable kids could point to specific adults who made a difference in their lives…

Scientists have improved the performance of magnetic nanoparticles designed to heat up and destroy tumors

Narcissists who are asked to imagine a recipient’s circumstances are more likely to donate to a cause than when the recipient’s plight is simply described to them

During disasters, active Twitter users likely to spread falsehoods - New research that examined more than 20,000 tweets during Hurricane Sandy and the Boston Marathon bombing found 86 to 91% of the users spread false news…

Researchers have found that prenatal marijuana use also can have consequences on infants' weight and can influence behavioral problems, especially when combined with tobacco use

Engineers upgrade ancient, sun-powered tech to purify water with near-perfect efficiency

Autism's social deficits are reversed by an anti-cancer drug

Your gadget’s next power supply? Your body - Gold tab attached to skin converts mechanical energy into juice for wearables, self-powered electronics

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Study shows investors lose, insiders win when IPOs involve analysts

Having a parent with an alcohol use disorder increases the risk for dating violence among teenagers

Study: Non-fearful social withdrawal linked positively to creativity

Analysis of brain tissue of Niagara River fish from 10 different species found elevated levels of antidepressants including Zoloft, Celexa, Prozac, and Sarafem

Women who’ve received funds to pay for an abortion but cannot access abortion in their home states travel roughly 10 times farther for the procedure than women who don’t have to go out of state…

Parkinson’s disease in a dish: Researchers reproduce the abnormal oscillations in brain neurons that control movement and which characterize the disease

Study on rats shows nonprescription use of Ritalin linked to adverse side effects

“Valleytronics” advancement could help extend Moore’s Law - The breakthrough involves controlling energy levels between electron valleys in 2-D semiconductors

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Personalization of content on political websites increases the tendency for users to consume information that agrees with their ideologies at the expense of information that challenges those beliefs

A consortium of psychologists and psychiatrists has developed a new, evidence-based alternative to the mental health field's long-established diagnostic tools for the classification, treatment…

Faulty genomic pathway is linked to schizophrenia developing in utero, could lead to treatments for pregnant mothers at risk for bearing children with the disease

Four decades of evidence finds no link between immigration and increased crime

Poorer and less-educated older Americans are more like to suffer from chronic pain than those with greater wealth and more education, but the disparity between the two groups is much greater than previously thought…

Common insecticides mimic melatonin, creating higher potential risk for diabetes and metabolic diseases - "first evidence that carbamates can upset circadian rhythms"

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Scientists find that glutamate plays a previously unknown role in neuromuscular development

A new study that uses computational modeling to investigate brain stimulation finds that stimulating network hubs - areas of the brain that are strongly connected to other parts via white matter - results in the global activation of many brain regions.

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