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Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin have shown that synchronization emerges between brains when making music together, and even when musicians play different voices. This synchronization is used by tutors such as takelessons to help their students learn how to play. Johanna Sänger and her team used electrodes to record the brain waves of guitarists while they played different voices of the same duet. They say the results point to brain synchronicity that c...

Bill Barry, S.J. A great Jesuit priest, dear friend and valued mentor has died: William A. Barry, S.J. Bill was 90 years old when he died at the Jesuit infirmary at Campion Center in Weston, Mass., on Saturday. He was a towering figure in Catholic spiritual circles, a pioneer in the practice of spiritual direction and a revered spiritual master. What I, and the Catholic Church, owe him is beyond measure. And he has been with me, in a sense, from the moment I entered the Jesuits. When I was a fi...

 E-Mail Access to the Internet is essential for economic development, education, global communications, and countless other applications. For all its benefits, however, the Internet has a darker side. It has emerged as a conduit for spreading misinformation, stoking tensions, and promoting extremist ideologies. Yet there is hope. In the latest issue of Psychological Science in the Public Interest, a team of researchers recommend ways that psychological and behavioral sciences can help decre...

Bangladesh makes great strides in human progress REZAUL KARIM 21st December, 2020 10:42:05 Bangladesh has made an impressive improvement in human development this year with remarkable progress in many socioeconomic areas, including life expectancy and per capita income. The Human Development Index (HDI) 2020 shows Bangladesh has moved two notches up, ranking 133rd position this year from last year’s 135th position. Bangladesh has ranked fifth among eight South Asian countries, says a global H...

Titans Recognized as Top-Cited Scientists 13 Cal State Fullerton faculty members top the Stanford study list of 100,000 cited researchers worldwide Dec. 18, 2020 Share This: More than a dozen Cal State Fullerton faculty members are among the top 2% well-cited scientists, according to a study conducted by Stanford University. Three CSUF psychology faculty and former faculty members — Professor Nancy L. Segal and emeriti professors Richard A. Lippa and Michael H. Birnbaum — made the l...

NIH to support radical approaches to nationwide COVID-19 testing and surveillance RADx-rad program will fund non-traditional and repurposed technologies to combat the current pandemic and address future viral disease outbreaks. The National Institutes of Health has awarded over $107 million to support new, non-traditional approaches and reimagined uses of existing tools to address gaps in COVID-19 testing and surveillance. The program also will develop platforms that can be deployed in future o...

Human Development Index: Bangladesh goes two notches up, 5th in South Asia Photo: Mohiuddin Alamgir Bangladesh moved up two notches in the Human Development Index -- to 133 -- compared to last year. It remains fifth among the eight South Asian countries covered in the report but bounced up nine notches in the new planetary pressures-adjusted human development index (PHDI), said The Human Development Report (HDR) 2020 of United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The report, titled The Next F...

Awards part of a larger effort to study pediatric COVID-19 and related conditions. The National Institutes of Health has awarded eight research grants to develop approaches for identifying children at high risk for Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C), a rare and severe after-effect of COVID-19 or exposure to the virus that causes it. Up to $20 million will be provided for the projects over four years, pending the availability of funds. “These awards underscore NIH’s commit...

HDR 2020 indicates uneven road to women empowerment in India © Provided by The Times of India NEW DELHI: Even as 76.7% women in India had their own bank accounts or used mobile money services in the 12 months preceding 2017, gender based violence continues to impact a significant number with 28.8% women of 15 years and above facing physical or sexual violence at the hands of an intimate partner, according to the Human Development Report 2020. A comparison with other countries over the referen...

QU announces ‘National Science Promotion Program’ for students  21 Dec 2020 - 9:26 A student of QU Young Scientist Center working in a laboratory. The Peninsula Doha: Qatar University’s Young Scientists Center (YSC), in cooperation with the office of Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies (VPRGS), is launching a research programme called National Science Promotion Program (NSPP), to build and consolidate the research culture among youth.  This new research grant is aligned ...