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Same-sex married couples cope with stress more positively and collaboratively than different-sex couples, and women married to men report more negative support — meaning that their spouses react ambivalently or even hostilely in response to stress — than women married to women
news.utexas.eduSubmitted by giuliomagnifico t3_ylx9ac in science
30 minutes of car preheating in sub-zero conditions produces as much particulate emissions as driving 97km in a gasoline car, or 20km in a diesel car “These findings do not suggest to stop preheating cars; instead, we could reduce the emissions by using similar methods that are in place for engine”
uef.fiSubmitted by giuliomagnifico t3_yk2sm8 in science
Researchers show that the same system in the brain that enables us to avoid danger is also activated during selfless, helping behaviour: “These results contradict the conventional wisdom that we need to suppress our own fear system in order to help others who are in danger”
news.ki.seSubmitted by giuliomagnifico t3_yjj3qn in science
An unprecedented study of brain plasticity and visual perception found that people who, as children, had undergone surgery removing half of their brain correctly recognized differences between pairs of words or faces more than 80% of the time
upmc.comSubmitted by giuliomagnifico t3_yj622g in science
Inspired from the wings of Gentoo penguins, researchers develop a potentially chemical-free solution to ice build up on electric wires, wind turbines and possibly even airplane wings. The treatment was 95% more effective at resisting ice build up, although more research is needed
mcgill.caSubmitted by giuliomagnifico t3_yimnsk in science
Climate change is shrinking the difference between the daily high temperature and the daily low in many parts of the world, this has a significant effect on growing seasons, crop yields, residential energy consumption and human health issues related to heat stress
eandt.theiet.orgSubmitted by giuliomagnifico t3_yhmhl5 in science
Another primate (out of 12 species) observed to nose-picking, booger-eating for the first time: the finger of the aye-aye can reach through its nose to the back of its throat, with the animals seen licking off the gathered mucus, this could play an important role in the immune syste
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Researchers have, for the first time, used CT scan to peer inside swarms of honeybees and found that the bees don’t clump together in a random group. Instead, they seem to form dome-shaped structures following surprisingly sophisticated mathematical rules, or what researchers call a “scaling law”
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giuliomagnifico OP t1_iuqywmy wrote
Reply to comment by dr_xenon in 30 minutes of car preheating in sub-zero conditions produces as much particulate emissions as driving 97km in a gasoline car, or 20km in a diesel car “These findings do not suggest to stop preheating cars; instead, we could reduce the emissions by using similar methods that are in place for engine” by giuliomagnifico
> subzero in Celsius
Of course!