• share
• favorite_border

Researchers have identified a single, universal facial expression that is interpreted across many cultures as the embodiment of negative emotion. The look proved identical for native speakers of English, Spanish, Mandarin Chinese and American Sign Language (ASL). It consists of a furrowed brow, pressed lips and raised chin, and because we make it when we convey negative sentiments, such as “I do not agree,” researchers are calling it the “not face.”

• share
• favorite_border

Are employees more likely to help co-workers above them or beneath them in the corporate pecking order? A new study suggests that may be the wrong question to ask. Researchers found that workers are most likely to help colleagues who are moderately distant from themselves in status – both above and below them.

• share
• favorite_border

While many women gamers can shrug off much of the name-calling and abuse they receive while playing online video games, sexual harassment sticks with them even when they’re offline.

• share
• favorite_border

The “dumb blonde” stereotype is simply wrong, according to a new national study of young baby boomers.The study of 10,878 Americans found that white women who said their natural hair color was blonde had an average IQ score within 3 points of brunettes and those with red or black hair.

• share
• favorite_border

Human use of copper dating back to the Bronze Age has shaped the evolution of bacteria, leading to bugs that are highly resistant to the metal’s antibacterial properties.

• share
• favorite_border

Quickly uncovering that foodborne illnesses are connected can make all the difference in halting a deadly outbreak. About 276,000 cases of foodborne illness are avoided each year because of PulseNet, a 20-year-old network coordinated by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, new research has found. State participation varies.

• share
• favorite_border

When people playing violent video games focus on killing and maiming, they don’t often remember the corporate brands they see along the way.

• share
• favorite_border

Risk of heart disease and diabetes may be lowered by a diet higher in a lipid found in grapeseed and other oils, but not in olive oil, a new study suggests.

• share
• favorite_border

Online advertisements targeted specifically at you because of your behavior can actually change how you feel about yourself, a new study suggests.

• share
• favorite_border

Sustained stress erodes memory, and the immune system plays a key role in the cognitive impairment, according to a new study from researchers at The Ohio State University.

• share
• favorite_border

Leukemia cells that are resistant to the common drug daunorubicin consume the drug and die, when the drug is hidden inside capsules made of folded up DNA.

• share
• favorite_border

The ocean’s power to rein in carbon and protect the environment is vast but not well-understood. But now, an international team of scientists has begun to illuminate how the ocean plucks carbon from the atmosphere, where it contributes to global warming, and shuttles it to the bottom of the sea.

• share
• favorite_border

• share
• favorite_border

As hospital leaders continue to feel pressure to improve patient outcomes and reduce costs, a new study reveals one reason why many organizations fall short.

• share
• favorite_border

A project at The Ohio State University is testing whether high-tech objects that look a bit like artificial trees can generate renewable power when they are shaken by the wind—or by the sway of a tall building, traffic on a bridge or even seismic activity.

• share
• favorite_border

Kids with uncorrected farsightedness lose ground on reading skills before they ever start first grade, a new study has found. The research, led by Marjean Taylor Kulp of The Ohio State University, uncovers evidence that moderately farsighted preschoolers and kindergarten students perform worse in early literacy than children with normal vision.

• share
• favorite_border

Even subtle differences in how you refer to people with mental illness can affect levels of tolerance, a new study has found.

• share
• favorite_border

Spouses ideally could play a key role in helping patients lose pounds and keep them off after weight-loss surgery, but being married might actually work against patients, researchers from The Ohio State University have found. The researchers, led by Megan Ferriby, a graduate student in human sciences, concluded that the impact of weight-loss surgery extends to his or her romantic relationships and likely to the entire family.

• share
• favorite_border

– Teens without homes, many of whom have suffered at the hands of those entrusted with providing them care and kindness, often refuse to seek warmth and nourishment at shelters.

• share
• favorite_border

Tracking the path of chemotherapy drugs in real time and at a cellular level could revolutionize cancer care and help doctors sort out why two patients might respond differently to the same treatment. Researchers at The Ohio State University have found a way to light up a common cancer drug so they can see where the chemo goes and how long it takes to get there.

• share
• favorite_border

Astronomers have spotted what may be the most powerful supernova ever seen—and discovered a mysterious object at its center.

• share
• favorite_border

The two types of youth gun violence couldn’t be more different, but the ways to prevent them remain largely the same, according to a new report by some of America’s top violence researchers.

• share
• favorite_border

Public-health experts have long expected that kids who eat more carrots and apples are less likely to eat a lot of candy and fries, but new research is calling that into question.

• share
• favorite_border

No one wants to knowingly buy products made with child labor or that harm the environment. But a new study shows that we also don’t want to work too hard to find out whether our favorite products were made ethically. And we really don’t like those good people who make the effort to seek out ethically made goods.

• share
• favorite_border

A songbird species that flourishes on the salmon-rich side of dams in the western United States struggles when it tries to nest on the side closed off from the fish and the nutrients they leave behind.

• share
• favorite_border

A new study is the first to provide real-world evidence of the effectiveness of smoking warning labels that include graphic photos of the damage caused by regular tobacco use.

• share
• favorite_border

If governments want to discourage smoking among young people, both high taxes and smoking bans do the job – but bans may have one key advantage.

• share
• favorite_border

By the latter half of this century, toxic algal blooms like the one that cut off drinking water to the city of Toledo in 2014 will no longer be the exception, but the norm, a study suggests. The findings hold implications for hundreds of coastal regions around the world where nutrient runoff and climate change intersect to make toxic algae a problem.

• share
• favorite_border

While some dream of the day that aerial drones deliver their online purchases, scientists are using the technology today to deliver data that was never available before. About 5,000 meters high in the Peruvian Andes, the scientists are mapping glaciers and wetlands in the Cordillera Blanca mountain range with 10-centimeter precision to gauge how climate change will affect the half-million local residents who rely in part on those glaciers for their water supply.

• share
• favorite_border

Some of the natural gas harvested by hydraulic fracturing operations may be of biological origin—made by microorganisms inadvertently injected into shale by oil and gas companies during the hydraulic fracturing process, a new study has found.

• share
• favorite_border

A new study finds some surprising ways in which women’s health at midlife is connected to when they had their first child and to their marital history.

• share
• favorite_border

For people who already have high blood sugar, preventing diabetes could amount to just another day at the office.

• share
• favorite_border

When it comes to emotional health, young couples – especially women -- do just as well moving in together as they do getting married, according to a new national study.

• share
• favorite_border

A year ago, researchers discovered that fat helps coral survive heat stress over the short term—and now it seems that fat helps coral survive over the long term, too. The study offers important clues as to which coral species are most likely to withstand repeated bouts of heat stress, called “bleaching,” as climate change warms world oceans.

• share
• favorite_border

Elite endurance athletes who eat very few carbohydrates burned more than twice as much fat as high-carb athletes during maximum exertion and prolonged exercise in a new study – the highest fat-burning rates under these conditions ever seen by researchers.

• share
• favorite_border

Most Head Start classrooms serve children of mixed ages and that hurts the academic growth of older children, a new national study suggests.

• share
• favorite_border

An innovative high school health program helped students maintain healthier weights and even alleviated severe depression for a full year after the program ended.

• share
• favorite_border

Researchers have discovered a new welding technique that welds alloys once thought un-weldable—alloys that automakers would like to use in the next generation of cars. Compared to a typical welding technique of today, the new technique uses 80 percent less energy, and creates bonds that are 50 percent stronger.

• share
• favorite_border

Any business guru will tell you that companies achieve success by learning from their experiences in the marketplace.But a new study of the aircraft industry suggests that the belief in ‘learning by doing’ may be overstated.

• share
• favorite_border

Seven out of 10 college students say it is somewhat or very easy to obtain controlled stimulants without a prescription, according to a new survey conducted on eight U.S. campuses.

• share
• favorite_border

The one upshot to the appearance of an invasive species—that it might provide an additional food source to native predators—comes with some caveats.

• share
• favorite_border

Girls who suffer a concussive bump on the head in childhood could be at increased risk for abusing alcohol as adults, a new study suggests.

• share
• favorite_border

New research shows that the estimated one-third of Americans who have a cluster of health problems that add up to metabolic syndrome don’t absorb dietary vitamin E as effectively as healthy people.

• share
• favorite_border

Researchers found that people who scored higher on measures of narcissism were no more likely than others to make risky choices in lab-based tasks.

• share
• favorite_border

Throughout history, scholars and researchers have tried to identify the one key reason that people are attracted to religion. But in a new book, a psychologist suggests that religion attracts followers because it satisfies all of the 16 basic desires that humans share.

• share
• favorite_border

For adults, memories tend to fade with time. But a new study has shown that there are circumstances under which the opposite is true for small children: they can remember a piece of information better days later than they can on the day they first learned it.

• share
• favorite_border

A new trend taking shape in psychological science not only uses quantum physics to explain humans’ (sometimes) paradoxical thinking, but may also help researchers resolve certain contradictions among the results of previous psychological studies.

• share
• favorite_border

Would a color by any other name be thought of in the same way, regardless of the language used to describe it? According to new research, the answer is yes.

• share
• favorite_border

A new study suggests that changes in immune function can occur as long as five years before the diagnosis of a brain tumor that typically produces symptoms only three months before it is detected.

• share
• favorite_border

What if a brain scan and other assessments of an incoming college student could lead to a personalized plan to maximize her strengths in and out of the classroom, while finding ways to shore up her weaknesses? This is the ultimate goal of a NSF-funded research project at The Ohio State University.