# research - Sunday 22 July, 2018
Younger children are more likely to take both numerical and social information into account, new research has found.
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# research - Saturday 14 July, 2018
The types of childhood hardships include divorce or separation of parents, death of a parent, and emotional, physical or sexual abuse.
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Researchers from London conducted three large-scale experiments in the US and the UK for the study.
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# research - Saturday 30 June, 2018
The study challenges the theory that testosterone levels are controlled by genetics or race.
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# research - Sunday 24 June, 2018
They have also identified a simple solution to stop it.
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# research - Saturday 23 June, 2018
The urge to remain in a group has been shown to make fish engage in risky behaviour, increasing their chances of being eaten.
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# research - Wednesday 20 June, 2018
The researchers say that their 18-month study has yielded a “statistically significant” finding and is a “breakthrough”.
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# research - Tuesday 19 June, 2018
The study examined ethnically varied populations in Europe, North America, the Middle East and Asia.
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# research - Saturday 16 June, 2018
The combination of hunger and anger may be a complicated emotional response involving an interplay of biology, personality and environmental cues.
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Fewer than six and more than 10 hours of sleep per day are associated with conditions such as increased blood pressure.
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# research - Wednesday 13 June, 2018
A study has claimed that Ireland channels the profits of more multinational companies than all the Caribbean islands combined.
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# research - Thursday 7 June, 2018
Dublin has about 77% of all homeless families in Ireland.
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# research - Saturday 2 June, 2018
As many as 40% of Europeans do not get enough of the vitamin, which is naturally produced when the skin is exposed to sunlight.
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The study found that the percentage of deaths attributed to opioids in the US increased by 292% from 2001 to 2016.
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Scientists found that people who exercised an average of at least 52 hours over about six months for around an hour each session may improve their thinking skills.
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Some of the ingredients found in commonly used synthetic hair dyes can trigger allergic reactions.
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# research - Saturday 26 May, 2018
The catchier the ad, the more effective.
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# research - Sunday 13 May, 2018
It has long been difficult to determine how and why human language began.
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# research - Wednesday 9 May, 2018
Put down the glass.
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# research - Saturday 5 May, 2018
Women who consumed fast food four or more times a week took nearly a month longer to become pregnant than those who didn’t.
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# research - Friday 4 May, 2018
A new report details concerns Irish mothers had after being diagnosed with HIV.
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# research - Sunday 29 April, 2018
“This is the first time we’ve shown shape and age are related for all kinds of galaxies.”
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# research - Saturday 28 April, 2018
Researchers propose a new model to explain how a goalkeeper dives to the right corner at the right time in penalty kick situations.
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# research - Saturday 21 April, 2018
Researchers also found that those with a traumatic brain injury were diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease an average of two years earlier than those without.
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# research - Sunday 15 April, 2018
Mobile eyebrows gave us the communication skills to establish large, social networks.
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New research found obesity levels in the greenest areas were actually higher than those with a medium amount of green space.
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# research - Thursday 12 April, 2018
New research suggests that a person’s internal clock may be at odds with their external environment – and that they should be allowed start work later.
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# research - Sunday 8 April, 2018
The findings were published in The Lancet journal this week.
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# research - Saturday 7 April, 2018
A new study has found that women are far more likely to underestimate their own intelligence than men.
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# research - Saturday 31 March, 2018
Archaeologists have uncovered evidence that there were hundreds of villages in the rainforest away from major rivers.
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# research - Thursday 29 March, 2018
Judge Karen O’Connor said the jury must come to their own conclusion based on the evidence they hear in court.
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# research - Saturday 24 March, 2018
Researchers have found that adding tiny cellulose fibres extracted from banana plant waste to ice cream could slow melting.
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Researchers also warned that infectious crew members could infect an average of 4.6 passengers per flight.
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# research - Wednesday 21 March, 2018
The worst offender was Stranger Things with 182 scenes with cigarettes.
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# research - Sunday 11 March, 2018
# research - Saturday 10 March, 2018
Researchers of a new study are hoping their findings inspire burn units to try to keep people with extensive burns alive as it can be done.
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# research - Saturday 3 March, 2018
Its cost could be outweighed by health savings in the area of air pollution disease and death.
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# research - Saturday 24 February, 2018
Under the Irish sea is a prehistoric ‘palaeolandscape’ of plains, hills, marshlands and river valleys.
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# research - Wednesday 21 February, 2018
In a new study, the majority of early-onset dementia diagnoses were related to chronic heavy drinking.
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Cutting either carbs or fats shaves off excess weight in about the same proportion.
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