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Young adult men who watched more violence on television showed indications of less mature brain development and poorer executive functioning, according to the results of an Indiana University School of Medicine study published online in the journal Brain and Cognition.

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A research institute centered at the Indiana University School of Medicine has launched a new organization to spark innovative collaborations across academic research centers and the biopharmaceutical industry.

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A new study identifies the most corrupt and least corrupt states in the United States and calculates that government corruption costs American taxpayers tens of billions of dollars a year.

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Indiana University researchers say a little deception caused cyclists in their 4K time trial to up their performance even after they realized they had been tricked.

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A pilot study by Indiana University researchers found that whole-body vibration exercise may reduce pain symptoms and improve aspects of quality of life in individuals diagnosed with fibromyalgia.

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Amphetamines can delay exhaustion during exercise in the heat by increasing the temperature at which it occurs. The potential cost? The risk of suffering from exertional heat stroke.

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Children with profound deafness who receive a cochlear implant had as much as five times the risk of having delays in areas of working memory, controlled attention, planning and conceptual learning as children with normal hearing, according to Indiana University research published in JAMA Otolaryngology.

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A group of 11 genes can successfully predict whether an individual is at increased risk of alcoholism, a research team from the United States and Germany reports

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Indiana University President Michael A. McRobbie concluded an official visit to Japan today by bestowing on one of the country's musical treasures, renowned cellist Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi, one the university's highest honors. Tsutsumi received IU's Thomas Hart Benton Medallion at an event celebrating the 50th anniversary of the university's alumni chapter in Japan. Today's gathering of IU alumni in Tokyo -- the largest ever held in the Japan alumni chapter’s history – came after three days of events and meetings between McRobbie and senior administrators at Waseda University, Osaka University, the Shibusawa Eiichi Memorial Foundation and the Tsuchiya Group, which has a subsidiary in Bloomington, Ind., that employs 180 people.

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Indiana University cancer researchers are testing whether therapy incorporating advanced genomic technology will provide better outcomes than current treatments for those with an aggressive form of breast cancer.

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On Friday, May 16, alumni and friends of Indiana University's Kelley School of Business will gather at the Nasdaq stock market and celebrate the school's presence on the market's towering video monitor in New York's Times Square.

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Indiana University biologists will receive over $6.2 million from the U.S. Army Research Office to study how bacteria evolve in response to both their internal, population-influenced environments and their external natural environment.

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Complex networks researchers at Indiana University have developed a tool that helps anyone determine whether a Twitter account is operated by a human or an automated software application known as a social bot.

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The reporters, editors and producers who put out the news every day are less satisfied with their work, say they have less autonomy in their work and tend to believe that journalism is headed in the wrong direction, according to the initial findings of "The American Journalist in the Digital Age," a representative survey of U.S. journalists conducted by the Indiana University School of Journalism.

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In May, Indiana University's Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies will award its first Ph.D. degree since the doctoral program was established in 2009. IU is one of only four public universities and seven universities nationally to offer a doctoral degree related to African American studies.

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Trampoline accidents sent an estimated 288,876 people, most of them children, to hospital emergency departments with broken bones from 2002 to 2011, at a cost of more than $400 million, according to an analysis by researchers at the Indiana University School of Medicine.

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Indiana U. neuroscientists are zeroing in with increasing certainty on the notion that nonhuman animals have a particular type of memory known as "source memory," long seen as exclusively human.

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An Indiana U. study has bolstered the link between red meat consumption and heart disease by finding a strong association between heme iron, found only in meat, and potentially deadly coronary heart disease.

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An Indiana U. study of reactions to Apple co-founder Steve Jobs' death suggests a critical window after a public figure dies to disseminate information about disease prevention and detection.

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Emilio Ferrara, a post-doctoral researcher at Indiana University’s Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research, is using network science and a connected society to fight crime. Ferrara and collaborators from the University of Messina, Italy, have already assisted police in Italy with investigations into murder, bribery, robbery, drug trafficking and prostitution by using social network modeling to conduct criminal network analysis using phone call data obtained by police.

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Faculty and graduate students from the Indiana University School of Education presented during more than 140 sessions of the American Educational Research Association conference concluding April 7.

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Despite the cold weather and storms -- which some economists suggest have been behind the recent economic slowdown -- retailers may enjoy a hot spring season, according to the FIndex survey released today.

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Scientists at Indiana University have unlocked one of the mysteries of modern genetics: how acquired traits can be passed between generations in a process called epigenetic inheritance.

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New work from a former Indiana University Bloomington graduate student and his IU Ph.D. advisor offers for the first time a characterization of the developmental genetic basis of this spectacular morphological novelty -- the firefly’s photic organ -- and the means by which this beetle successfully uses ancient and highly conserved regulatory genes to form its lantern.

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An Indiana University and Regenstrief Institute study of nearly 10,000 average-risk, asymptomatic men and women from 90 sites across the United States reports that a multi-target stool DNA test detects 92.3 percent of colon cancers.

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Scientists from Indiana University are part of a consortium that has described the transcriptome of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster in unprecedented detail, identifying thousands of new genes, transcripts and proteins.

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Students and faculty from Indiana University's acclaimed IU Soul Revue are traveling to Memphis, Tenn., over spring break to work with talented local youths, including those at the Stax Music Academy, an educational program that continues the tradition of the historic record label.

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the individuals and two-fifths of the congregations surveyed still prefer the King James Bible. And of the Bible readers surveyed, African Americans reported the highest levels of Bible engagement.

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An Indiana U. study found that elite college athletes often struggle to stay active in later years, facing limitations to their day-to-day activities in middle age that could be a result of injuries during their athletic career.

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Under the terms of the first bilateral agreement between the United States and Burma/Myanmar since 1957, Indiana University and its Kelley School of Business are involved in a program that will help the Southeast Asian nation develop a market-led economy and improve its citizens' lives. The U.S. Agency for International Development has awarded $1 million to IU's Kelley School for a Global Development Alliance project that will extend the teaching and outreach capabilities of the Yangon Institute of Economics and help micro- to medium-sized business enterprises to be more successful.

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Vladimir Touraev, a Russian high school math teacher in the mid-1970s who 30 years later would become the first named professor in the Indiana University Department of Mathematics, has been awarded over $2.7 million to establish a new mathematics laboratory in Russia.

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A unique new program at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business will help U.S. employers maneuver through the complex immigration process to hire its international graduates this spring.

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Uncertainty created by political stalemates such as the recent government shutdown have a greater impact than government policies on businesses' ability to innovate -- a key factor fueling economic growth -- according to a new study from Indiana University's Kelley School of Business.