[ad_1] When people make choices, they have to evaluate a number of variables. What is the risk? What is the gain or the cost? What upheaval will the choice cause? What is the likely outcome? The researchers employed a range of techniques, from brain scans to personal surveys, to try …
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[ad_1] The way you move a computer mouse while deciding whether to click on a risky bet or a safe bet can reveal just how much a risk taker you are. The researchers found that people whose mouse moved to the safe option on their computer screen, even when they …
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[ad_1] (Illustration by Wendolyn Hill) The era of functional genomics has allowed scientists to analyze huge amounts of data on cellular activity in disease and health. The more this data is shared between labs, the more power scientists have to find disease-related genes. This widespread sharing of functional genomics data, …
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[ad_1] AThere are currently strange sounding coaching workshops and seminars in many American universities. Universities try to emotionally prepare their students and faculty for the upcoming presidential election under slogans like “Stress before the election – let the feelings go” and “Psychological flexibility regardless of the election result”. After some …
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[ad_1] The search for Planet Nine – a hypothetical ninth planet in our solar system – could eventually identify the faintest orbital trails in an incredibly dark corner of space. This is exactly what Yale astronomers Malena Rice and Gregory Laughlin are attempting with a technique that collects scattered light …
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