Sizeable literature has shown that as we grow into adulthood, our memory accuracy improves. However, psychologists believe that adults may have less accurate memories than children under certain circumstances.
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One evolutionary enigma is the production of both male and bisexual flowers in the same plant. Field experiments with horsenettle showed that male flowers can sometimes increase seed number. The benefit may arise if resources saved by producing smaller male flowers are reallocated to increased seed production or if male flowers are more attractive to pollinators or other explanations to be tested.
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Eating pistachios may reduce your body’s response to the stresses of everyday life, according to a Penn State study.
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What a person says is not necessarily an indication of what that person knows because speech is motivated by social circumstances and the desire to influence the listener. Two researchers have applied this principle to local environmental knowledge by indigenous peoples and are urging other scientists to incorporate more observation and skepticism into their studies.
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In the event of a smallpox outbreak in the United States, how long would it take for a vaccine to start protecting Americans by stimulating an immune response?
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Teens who have chronic daily headache, especially those with migraine headaches, are at greater risk for suicide than teens who don’t have migraines, according to a new study. Teens with migraine are also more likely to have other psychiatric disorders such as depression and panic disorder.
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Researchers have found bonobos and chimpanzees use manual gestures of their hands, feet and limbs more flexibly than they do facial expressions and vocalizations, further supporting the evolution of human language began with gestures as the gestural origin hypothesis of language suggests.
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Sleep remains one of the big mysteries in biology. All animals sleep, and people who are deprived of sleep suffer physically, emotionally and intellectually. But nobody knows how sleep restores the brain.
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Tungsten began increasing in trees in Fallon, Nevada several years before the town’s rise in childhood leukemia cases, according to a recent study. This is the first study that has examined changes in levels of heavy metals in Fallon over time.
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According to a recent study, pharmaceuticals are being found in septic tanks and, consequentially, ground water due to incomplete human metabolism and excretion into the waste stream or by disposal of unused medications in the toilet or down the sink.
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