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Study suggests humor could be an emotion regulation strategy for depression

By Eric W. Dolan , March 10, 2019 (Photo credit: klublu ) Humor can help decrease negative emotional reactions in people vulnerable to depression, according to new research published in the journal Brain and Behavior . The findings offer preliminary evidence that humor could be an effective emotion regulation strategy....

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...