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Social media platforms shape behavioral response of young people to COVID-19 outbreak At the start of the pandemic, young Singaporeans regarded COVID-19 as a threat to the older generation but not to themselves, finds NTU Singapore study During the early stages of the COVID-19 outbreak, young Singaporeans understood the infectious disease to be risky for their parents and older relatives, but not themselves, a Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) study has found. Young Singaporeans were more concerned about the dangers of fake news surrounding COVID-19 rather than the h...

IU researchers receive $2.9 million grant to expand work on subconcussive impacts Every year, nearly 2.5 million U.S. high school athletes participate in contact sports. Each of these athletes sustains an average of 650 subconcussive head impacts in a single season, hits that can negatively affect brain health. A $2.9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health will help researchers at Indiana University determine whether, and to what extent, repetitive subconcussive head impacts -- impacts that do not trigger clinically detectable signs and symptoms of concussion -- negatively affec...

Population mobility patterns could help address malaria in the Amazon, say scientists Understanding population mobility patterns could hold the key to tackling malaria in the Amazon, say scientists. Malaria has traditionally been seen as a rural scourge, but increasingly it is being documented in or near urban areas, experts warn, as a new study shows that human mobility plays an important role in the "urbanisation" of the disease. The research aimed to find out how the Plasmodium parasite, which transmits the disease through the Anopheles mosquito, enters urban areas. Over a four-year peri...

Study: Robots can Inspire Humans to Take Risks Written by AZoRoboticsDec 14 2020 A new study demonstrates that robots can motivate humans to take bigger risks in a simulated gambling scenario than they would if there was nothing to impact their actions. A SoftBank Robotics Pepper robot was used in the two robot conditions. Image Credit: University of Southampton. Improving the understanding of whether robots can influence risk-taking could have distinct practical, ethical and policy implications, which this study aimed to explore. We know that peer pressure can lead to higher risk-taking beh...

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