# research - Saturday 12 January, 2019
A team of researchers are John Hopkins University has found out why the brain makes high-risk decisions.
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# research - Sunday 6 January, 2019
The itch-scratching cycle can significantly impair quality of life and lead to serious skin and tissue damage.
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# research - Saturday 5 January, 2019
About 500,000 people in Ireland have COPD, but half of them likely do not know they have the condition.
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# research - Tuesday 1 January, 2019
Being able to better differentiate between species will help researchers fight the spread of diseases they carry.
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# research - Sunday 23 December, 2018
That’s according to a study published in the Plos Medicine journal this week.
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# research - Tuesday 18 December, 2018
The rings are being pulled into Saturn by gravity as a dusty rain of ice particles under the influence of Saturn’s magnetic field.
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# research - Monday 17 December, 2018
The discovery has been hailed as shifting our knowledge concerning the origin of feathers.
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# research - Sunday 16 December, 2018
Creativity requires humans to break away from more common and easily reached ideas.
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# research - Wednesday 12 December, 2018
Findings suggest that sexual minority youths and are four times more likely to report recent self-harm at ages 16 and 21 years than their heterosexual peers.
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# research - Sunday 9 December, 2018
New research suggests that plague may have been spread among Neolithic European settlements by traders.
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# research - Saturday 1 December, 2018
More than 3,600 people died from causes such as illness and suicide linked to the aftermath of the tragedy.
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# research - Tuesday 27 November, 2018
Employees in the health sector and public administration experience the highest levels of job stress.
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# research - Tuesday 20 November, 2018
The UK voted to leave the EU on 23 June 2016.
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# research - Monday 19 November, 2018
The team behind the study said their findings could help the treatment of psychiatric conditions such as PTSD.
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# research - Saturday 17 November, 2018
The research aims to identify the positive factors that helped peole who experienced trauma in their childhoods.
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# research - Thursday 8 November, 2018
Smoking increased a woman’s risk of a heart attack by 55% more than it increased the risk in a man.
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# research - Wednesday 7 November, 2018
Research published by the ESRI this morning examines how well migrants are settling into Ireland.
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# research - Sunday 4 November, 2018
“We found that culture really matters in terms of how adolescents respond to a disaster.”
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# research - Wednesday 17 October, 2018
A new report published today noted similar findings among parents of obese children.
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# research - Wednesday 10 October, 2018
The study by the University of York found that humans could recall between 1,000 to 10,000 faces.
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# research - Saturday 29 September, 2018
The order in which children are born may play a significant role in how they learn about sex, especially for boys.
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# research - Thursday 27 September, 2018
“To a mother or father, a second trimester stillbirth is no less tragic than a stillbirth at 28 weeks.”
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# research - Sunday 23 September, 2018
The study found that irregular sleepers were also more likely to report depression and stress than regular sleepers.
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# research - Monday 17 September, 2018
18 state-of-the-art seismometers will measure movement at the floor of the ocean.
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# research - Thursday 13 September, 2018
Some also engage in “animated conversation” in an effort to burn calories.
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# research - Thursday 6 September, 2018
The process uses the aggressive nature of cancer cells against them.
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# research - Wednesday 5 September, 2018
The diseases include type two diabetes, dementia, cardiovascular disease and some cancers.
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# research - Tuesday 4 September, 2018
Although the study is US-based, many factors of it still ring true for those children who are homeless in Ireland.
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# research - Sunday 2 September, 2018
Some 500,000 tonnes of plastic waste from the EU end up in the sea every year.
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# research - Saturday 25 August, 2018
This layout is linked to higher levels of physical activity while at work, and lower levels of stress outside the office, a new study suggests.
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# research - Thursday 23 August, 2018
Gardaí have warned motorists to safeguard everyone who gets into a vehicle.
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# research - Sunday 19 August, 2018
That alienating vibe also makes sleep-deprived individuals more socially unattractive to others.
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# research - Sunday 12 August, 2018
The majority of people in the analysed dating networks contact other people who are 25% more desirable than themselves.
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# research - Thursday 9 August, 2018
Researchers are warning that recent rains do not even begin to undo months of deficit.
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# research - Tuesday 7 August, 2018
A sleep duration of 10 hours is linked with 30% increased risk of dying compared to sleeping for seven hours.
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54% of first-year women students reported experiencing sexual hostility or crude gender harassment since starting college.
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# research - Monday 6 August, 2018
More than half of Ireland’s bee species have experienced substantial declines since the 1980s.
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# research - Friday 3 August, 2018
The supplement was developed to aid warfighters.
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# research - Thursday 2 August, 2018
People who don’t drink in midlife have been found to have a 45% higher risk of dementia.
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# research - Saturday 28 July, 2018
Men in a new survey reported an average of 14 partners over their lifetime while women reported seven.
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