Latest News Releases 22 June

Despite claims, there is "no quantifiable evidence" that in-game NHL fighting deters more undesirable violence, per analysis of a decade of hockey penalties

Over 40,000 Twitter users used pandemic misinformation hashtags "Scamdemic" or "Plandemic" in 2020 in over 220,000 tweets - and a fifth of these accounts were suspended by Twitter by January 2021

Middle-aged women with low levels of estrogen and progesterone are more likely to snore and to report symptoms of obstructive sleep apnea, according to a new study published this week in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Kai Triebner of University of Bergen, Norway, and colleagues.

A new analysis of the personality trait of grit found that people who showed higher levels of grit also had different patterns of cognitive performance—but not necessarily enhanced cognitive performance. Nuria Aguerre of the University of Granada, Spain, and colleagues present these findings in the open-access journal PLOS ONE on June 22, 2022.

New evidence supports the idea that heterosexual relationship satisfaction is linked to fulfillment of people’s personal preferences for receiving affection expressed according to distinct love languages. Olha Mostova of the University of Warsaw, Poland, and colleagues present these findings in the open-access journal PLOS ONE on June 22, 2022.

In the 2020 U.S. House of Representatives Elections, Democrats supporting the Green New Deal increased their vote share.

Almost half of surveyed Ghanaian adults exhibited stigma and discriminatory tendencies towards COVID-19 survivors - indicating a need for public education

An international team of researchers has demonstrated a technique that allows them to align gold nanorods using magnetic fields, while preserving the underlying optical properties of the gold nanorods.

UC Davis Health and the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston are leading a major new study — Diverse Vascular Contributions to Cognitive Impairment and Dementia, or Diverse VCID. The researchers will examine how brain changes, genetics and other factors contribute to dementia and Alzheimer's disease. The goal is to create a health "scorecard" for dementia risk. The study is funded by a $53.6 million award from the NIH National Institute on Aging and is being conducted at 13 locations in 10 states.