Summary: New research dispels fears of judgment when sharing secrets. Study shows that when individuals confide their secrets, others perceive them as more charitable and trustworthy. Participants consistently expected harsher…
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Why the humanities are needed in health care
While there is a long history of doctor-poets – one giant of mid-20th-century poetry, William Carlos Williams, was famously also a pediatrician – few people seem to know this or…
What is resilience? A psychologist explains the main ingredients that help people manage stress
The word resilience can be perplexing. Does it mean remaining calm when faced with stress? Bouncing back quickly? Growing from adversity? Is resilience an attitude, a character trait or a…
A method to straighten curved space-time
One of the greatest challenges of modern physics is to find a coherent method for describing phenomena, on the cosmic and microscale. For over a hundred years, to describe reality…
Eli Lilly starts website to connect patients with new obesity treatment, Zepbound, other drugs
A sign for Eli Lilly & Co. stands outside their corporate headquarters in Indianapolis on April 26, 2017. Eli Lilly has launched a unique website to connect U.S. patients seeking…
The Day the Solar Wind Died on Mars
Researchers led by the University of Iowa explain the solar wind’s disappearance on the red planet. The solar wind is a continuous, million-miles-per-hour blast of charged particles from the sun…
New images reveal what Neptune and Uranus really look like
Voyager 2/ISS images of Uranus and Neptune released shortly after the Voyager 2 flybys in 1986 and 1989, respectively, compared with a reprocessing of the individual filter images in this…
Classifying the natural history of asymptomatic malaria
Colorized electron micrograph showing malaria parasite (right, blue) attaching to a human red blood cell. The inset shows a detail of the attachment point at higher magnification. Credit: NIAID Detecting…
