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Released: 7-Feb-2024 8:50 AM EST
AI can use human perception to help tune out noisy audio
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Researchers have developed a new deep learning model that promises to significantly improve audio quality in real-world scenarios by taking advantage of a previously underutilized tool: human perception.

Released: 5-Feb-2024 4:05 PM EST
How ‘deaths of despair’ differ by race and ethnicity
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White Americans are more likely than Black and Hispanic people in the United States to experience “deaths of despair” even though they are less likely to suffer from severe psychological distress, a new study finds.

Released: 31-Jan-2024 8:00 AM EST
Brain changes behind pain sensitivity may affect older women more
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A new study has found that the brain system enabling us to inhibit our own pain changes with age, and that gender-based differences in those changes may lead females to be more sensitive to moderate pain than males as older adults.

Released: 30-Jan-2024 10:05 AM EST
After 7 years, alcohol control program still reduces child abuse
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A neighborhood alcohol control project in Sacramento that reduced cases of child abuse and neglect soon after implementation still had a positive impact seven years later, a new study found.

Released: 29-Jan-2024 3:05 PM EST
Researchers spying for signs of life among exoplanet atmospheres
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The next generation of advanced telescopes could sharpen the hunt for potential extraterrestrial life by closely scrutinizing the atmospheres of nearby exoplanets, new research suggests.

Released: 29-Jan-2024 11:05 AM EST
How a double major in college can protect future income
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Here’s one good reason for college students to consider a double major: It could soften the blow to their incomes from future economic slumps.

Released: 23-Jan-2024 12:05 PM EST
Innovative tech shows promise to boost rubber production in US
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Scientists are working to ramp up the U.S. rubber market by advancing methods to extract latex from two sustainable North American plant sources: a dandelion species and a desert shrub.

Released: 23-Jan-2024 8:05 AM EST
No sex difference in concussion recovery among college athletes
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A new large, national study of collegiate student-athletes in the United States dispels a long-held belief about concussions, finding that women and men recover from sport-related head injuries within the same time frame.

Released: 22-Jan-2024 8:05 AM EST
Navigating the ‘big little leap’ to kindergarten
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No matter how well children are prepared for kindergarten, their transition to the classroom during the first few months plays a key role in their success, a new study suggests.

Released: 17-Jan-2024 8:05 AM EST
Study delivers detailed photos of galaxies’ inner structures
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For the first time, high-resolution images captured by the James Webb Space Telescope are offering powerful insights into the complex dust patterns of nearby star-forming galaxies.

Released: 16-Jan-2024 8:30 AM EST
What U.S. legislators do when they can’t pass laws
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The 118th Congress passed fewer than 30 new laws in 2023, the least in decades. But that doesn’t necessarily mean U.S. representatives weren’t finding other ways to get things done. A recent book uses newly uncovered data to explore how lawmakers work through federal agencies to accomplish their goals – without the necessity of passing laws.

Released: 12-Jan-2024 10:05 AM EST
Stress, via inflammation, is linked to metabolic syndrome
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A new study has found that stress, through its propensity to drive up inflammation in the body, is linked to metabolic syndrome – leading researchers to suggest that cheap and relatively easy stress-management techniques may be one way to help improve biological health outcomes.

   
Released: 10-Jan-2024 9:30 AM EST
More siblings mean poorer mental health for teens
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Teens from larger families have poorer mental health than those with fewer siblings, according to a large analysis of children in the United States and China.

Released: 9-Jan-2024 8:15 AM EST
Researchers developing AI to make the internet more accessible
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In an effort to make the internet more accessible for people with disabilities, researchers at The Ohio State University have begun developing an artificial intelligence agent that could complete complex tasks on any website using simple language commands.

Released: 8-Jan-2024 11:05 AM EST
SARS-CoV-2 BA.2.86 is less resistant to vaccine, but may be a problem in the lung
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New research shows that the recently emerged BA.2.86 omicron subvariant of the virus that causes COVID-19 can be neutralized by bivalent mRNA vaccine-induced antibodies in the blood, which explains why this variant did not cause a widespread surge as previously feared.

Released: 2-Jan-2024 11:05 AM EST
Women’s and girls’ sports: more popular than you may think
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The number of Americans who watch or follow girls’ and women’s sports goes well beyond those who view TV coverage of women’s athletic events, a new study suggests. In fact, just over half of American adults spent some time watching or following female sports in the past year, the results showed

Released: 29-Dec-2023 6:30 AM EST
In coastal communities, sea level rise may leave some isolated
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Amid the threat of dramatic sea level rise, coastal communities face unprecedented dangers, but a new study reveals that as flooding intensifies, disadvantaged populations will be the ones to experience some of the most severe burdens of climate change.

Released: 21-Dec-2023 2:05 PM EST
How technology and economics can help save endangered species
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A lot has changed in the world since the Endangered Species Act (ESA) was enacted 50 years ago in December 1973. Two researchers at The Ohio State University were among a group of experts invited by the journal Science to discuss how the ESA has evolved and what its future might hold.

Newswise: Trauma survivor support reduces return trips to hospital
Released: 21-Dec-2023 8:50 AM EST
Trauma survivor support reduces return trips to hospital
Ohio State University

If hospitals consistently and comprehensively support trauma survivors with mental health needs, including after they’re discharged, the survivors are less likely to find themselves back in the hospital in crisis, a new study has found.



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