Overcoming Social Anxiety With An App?
Most people have feelings of shyness or nervousness in social situations. Many feel apprehensive before oral exams, feel shy and tongue-tied on a first date,…
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Perceptions Of Unsolicited Sext Messages: A Sexual Double Standard
Sexting is apparently here to stay. According to a recent study, 1 in 4 American teens have received a sext, and 1 in 7 teens…
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It’s Time To Revise STEM Doctoral Admissions Procedures
The selection of students for science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) doctoral programs determines who will be leaders in higher education and fields that underpin…
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How Individuals With “The Dark Triad” Traits Respond To Breakup Distress
The Dark Triad is a set of three personality traits that tend to “hang together”; that is, when somebody has high levels of one of…
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How Asteroid Families Interact With Secular Resonances
Large asteroid families are usually the product of a collision between two bodies. Fragments of the parent body are ejected with terminal ejection velocities that…
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On The Shoulders Of Giants, Part 1: Henry K. Beecher And The Placebo Effect
When Robert Merton (1910 – 2003) dissected the allegory that we all are “standing on the shoulders of giants” — based on a much older…
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Speech Directivity And Vowel Sounds
When we are behind someone who is speaking, we hear them less clearly, and it is more difficult to understand what they are saying. This…
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How Health Professionals Respond To Online Health Rumors
Given the abundance of information on social media, society’s challenge lies not in the difficulty of accessing health information but in sieving out truths from…
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Orbital Synchronicities In The Solar System
Hundreds of thousands of asteroids are orbiting our Sun with different orbital periods according to their mean distance to the Sun, or semimajor axis. All…
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Italy’s Space Science Data Center Hones MATISSE Program To Create 3D Projections Of Minor Bodies
The recent space missions devoted to the exploration of the so-called “minor bodies” (i.e., comets, asteroids, and dwarf planets), comprising ESA Rosetta and NASA Dawn,…
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The Physical And Mechanical Properties Of Arctic Sea Ice During Melt Season
The Arctic Ocean is undergoing a series of changes in sea ice, whose concentration and thickness, as well as multiyear ice volume, has decreased significantly….
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