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Study finds that low-quality sleep can lead to procrastination, especially among people who naturally

March 03 , 2019 New research which was recently published in Frontiers in Psychology provides important insights regarding the connection between sleep quality and the tendency to procrastinate. Prior studies have shown that procrastination occurs as a result of a low capacity for self-regulation. Essentially, this mea...

Air pollution causes 800,000 extra deaths a year in Europe and 8.8 million worldwide

12 March 2019 Air pollution could be causing double the number of excess deaths a year in Europe than has been estimated previously, according to a study published in the European Heart Journal [1] today (Tuesday). Using a new method of modelling the effects of various sources of outdoor air pollution on death rates, t...

Along the Coast of Peru, Scientists Discover an Ancient Whale With 4 Legs

By Sarah Sloat , April 4, 2019 Around 50 million years ago, whales began inching toward planet-wide colonization. At the time, reveals research published Thursday in Current Biology , they were small, hooved, legged , and land-locked animals living in South Asia quite unlike the giant, streamlined humpbacks and bowhead...

Cold plasma can kill 99.9% of airborne viruses, U-M study shows

Dangerous airborne viruses are rendered harmless on-the-fly when exposed to energetic, charged fragments of air molecules, University of Michigan researchers have shown. They hope to one day harness this capability to replace a century-old device: the surgical mask. The U-M engineers have measured the virus-killing spe...

Study suggests overdiagnosis of schizophrenia

Reported symptoms of anxiety and hearing voices most common reasons for misdiagnosis by non-specialty physicians JOHNS HOPKINS MEDICINE Ina small study of patients referred to the johns hopkins early psychosis intervention clinic (epic), johns hopkins medicine researchers report that about half the people referred to t...