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Oops! Researchers publish new findings on the brain's response to costly mistakes

...r realizing that our gas tank is nearly empty on a lonely stretch of highway, we all make mistakes that aren't just annoying, but potentially costly. Now, a team of University of Michigan researchers has looked inside the human brain and captured the instant when someone makes a costly mistake. What they'v...

Man's best friend: Study shows lonely seniors prefer playtime with pooch over human interaction

...f Medicine. Nursing home residents felt much less lonely after spending time alone with a dog than they did when they visited with a dog and other people. The research will be published in the March 2006 issue of Anthrozoos 18(4). "It was a strange finding," said Banks, who also is a staff physician at V...

Polynesia explorers created worldwide web of scientific knowledge

...lso were ambitious, enduring the "madness of long, lonely voyages" for the fame they might claim upon their return.Their bosses, the voyage sponsors, tended to be high-ranking naval officers, ministers of state or monarchs ?wealthy men who paid them to be reporters, but who also had their own "conceptions o...

Cloning the smell of the seaside

...and the birds sniff out their plankton food in the lonely oceans at astonishingly low concentrations. Scientists have known about DMS for many years but the genes responsible for its production have never before been identified. The new findings will be published in the journal Science on Friday February...

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