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·December 13, 2023·5 min read

Age Influences Women’s Ideal Partner Preferences

Researchers conducted a study involving over 20,000 women to understand how age affects preferences for a romantic partner. They found that while most preferences, such as kindness and supportiveness, remain constant regardless of age, older women tend to prefer more confident, assertive partners and are more open to a wider age range, including younger partners.

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·July 18, 2022·5 min read

Molecular Map of the Synapse

A new study using 3D-MINFLUX technology allowed researchers to image the active zone of synapses with the precision of a few nanometers.

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·January 18, 2022·2 min read

How We Understand Causality

A new study considers how people acquire and utilize knowledge about causal relationships.

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·December 14, 2021·4 min read

Learning and Protecting Itself: How the Brain Adapts

Blocking matrix metalloproteinases MMP2 and MMP9 can have the opposite effect on neuroplasticity depending on whether the brain is healthy or injured.

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·July 12, 2021·4 min read

Genome Editing For Food: How Do People React?

People are less averse to the use of CRISPR gene editing in agriculture if the technology is used to promote disease resistance in animals. However, people tend to dislike the use of CRISPR when it comes to new breeding methods.

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·May 14, 2021·4 min read

What Does Your Voice Say About You? Study Links Personality Traits to Voice Characteristics

A new study reveals a link between vocal characteristics and individual personality traits. Those with deeper voices were more dominant, extroverted, and tended to rank higher in sociosexuality. Researchers found no difference between men and women.

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·March 8, 2021·4 min read

Watching the Brain Learn

In older mice, adult neurons in the primary visual cortex with an increased number of "silent synapses" and lacking PSD-95, showed the same structural changes only seen previously in younger animals.

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·April 6, 2020·2 min read

COVID-19: On average only 6% of actual SARS-CoV-2 infections detected worldwide

Study reveals the official number of confirmed cases of coronavirus is dramatically understated. Data shows, due to insufficient and delayed testing, countries throughout the world have only discovered about 6% of COVID-19 cases. The true number of infections worldwide may already have reached several tens of millions.

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·March 7, 2020·3 min read

What women really want: The effect of women’s cycle on preferences for male behavior

Study tests the good genes ovulation shift hypothesis, which states women's preferences for certain male behaviors differ throughout their ovulation cycle. Researchers found no evidence that a woman's preference changes across the ovulation cycle. However, women tend to perceive men as slightly more attractive when fertile than during other cycle phases.

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·October 15, 2019·3 min read

Happy, angry or neutral expressions? Eyes react just as fast

The initial reaction of the brain is independent of the facial emotional expression we see. It is only after the eye movement is completed that the brain shows strong responses to the emotional expression of a face.