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Maths anxiety?? Your parents and teachers are more responsible for it
Many students claim not to like math. But for some, the issue with math is more than simply disliking algebra or fractions.
For some students,...
Deep brain stimulation may significantly improve OCD symptoms
Obsessive-compulsive disorder is a type of mental illness. People with OCD can have either obsessive thoughts and urges or compulsive, repetitive behaviors. This repetitive...
Sea ice acts as ‘pacemaker’ for abrupt climate change
The last glacial period was marked by pronounced millennial-scale variability in ocean circulation and global climate. Shifts in sea ice cover within the Nordic...
Mighty mites give scrawny beetles the edge over bigger rivals
Social interactions within species and mutualism between species are both well characterized, but their influence on each other is poorly understood. In a new...
Most laptops vulnerable to attack via peripheral devices, study
Vulnerabilities were found in PCs with Thunderbolt ports running Windows, macOS, Linux, and FreeBSD. Numerous modern laptops and an expanding number of desktops areas...
Butterflies are genetically wired to choose a mate that looks just like them
Scientists at the University of Cambridge, in collaboration with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama, have discovered that male butterflies have genes which give them...
Wine before beer, or beer before wine?
How do you order your drinks? Beer before wine or wine before beer?
Well, it really does not matter if you drink too much. You will...
Magnetic graphene switches between insulator and conductor
Magnetic graphene, or iron trithiohypophosphate (FePS3), is from a group of materials known as van der Waals materials and was first integrated during the...
Slim people have a genetic advantage when it comes to maintaining their weight
More than six out of ten grown-ups in the UK are overweight, and one of every four adults is obese. By age five, just...
Heart disease risk begins in the womb, study
Heart disease is the leading cause of death today, killing 17.7 million people a year. Our genes also interact with traditional lifestyle risk factors, such as...
Brain training game improves users’ concentration, study
Brain-training apps are being used by tens of millions of people worldwide. Studies have found that brain-training games improve the "executive functions, working memory,...
Mystery orbits in outermost reaches of solar system not caused by Planet Nine, study
Some of the strangest orbits of some objects have reached our solar system. According to astronomers, these mysterious orbits are to be formed by a...