What do you see when you listen to music?
Are we all imagining the same thing when we listen to music, or are our experiences hopelessly subjective? In other words, is music a truly universal language? (more…)
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Ukraine War: The Changes, Shifting
As the war in Ukraine heading towards the 3rd month, some bitter truths are exposing with time, clearly pointing to a new World Order. These are actions and reactions arising from the ongoing war: (more…)
Do cell phones distract us from interacting with our kids?
UD professor Roberta Golinkoff publishes new study on the influence of cell phones on parent-child interactions.
Over the last several years, many researchers in early childhood education have focused on the amount of screen time that children receive each day and how it may affect their learning or development. But, what about the amount of time that a parent or caregiver spends in front of a screen while playing with a child? How might a parent’s distraction by a cell phone affect a child’s learning? (more…)
Rätsel um die Herkunft der 30.000 Jahre alten Venus von Willendorf gelöst
Neue Forschungsmethode zeigt: Gestein stammt wahrscheinlich aus Norditalien
Die knapp 11 cm hohe Figurine aus Willendorf ist eines der wichtigsten Zeugnisse von beginnender Kunst in Europa. Sie ist aus einem Gestein gefertigt, das als “Oolith” bezeichnet wird und in Willendorf und Umgebung nicht vorhanden ist. (more…)
Gentrification Changes the Personality Makeup of Cities in a Short Time
AUSTIN, Texas —A study of almost 2 million U.S. residents across 199 cities shows that rising housing costs may drive increases in “openness” of character among residents of a city — all in well under a decade. The findings, published in the journal American Psychologist, indicate that increasing affluence can rapidly change a city’s personality by attracting certain types of newcomers and by changing the environment around established residents. (more…)
Neue Erkenntnisse zur Vorhersage der Wirksamkeit von Wirkstoffen in der Arzneimittelentwicklung
Deutsch-Finnische Studie gibt Aufschluss, wie lange ein Arzneistoffmolekül an sein Ziel gebunden ist
Arzneistoffe bestehen aus im Wirkstofflabor entwickelten Molekülen, die an ihr Ziel, meist einem Protein, binden und so ihre Wirkung entfalten. Die tatsächliche Dauer der Bindung eines Wirkstoffmoleküls an sein Zielprotein variiert je nach Wirkstoff. (more…)
The lessons of COVID-19, two years on
UCLA epidemiologist Robert Kim-Farley reflects on how the U.S. has coped with the pandemic
When Robert Kim-Farley heard that COVID-19 had reached the United States, on Jan. 20, 2020, he immediately recalled the grim images from China that he had been seeing online, with people dying in the streets outside of overwhelmed hospitals. (more…)