“We didn’t expect that result at all. The participants reported that it was less painful for the victim in the coercive condition compared to the free condition while they knew it was exactly the same pain!” — @CasparEmilie
View more: https://t.co/TpGGhmXCFD
#Neuroscience
Did Our Early Ancestors Boil Their Food in Hot Springs?
Scientists have found evidence of hot springs near sites where ancient hominids settled, long before the control of fire.
#Anthropology#Paleontology#Scicomm
https://t.co/m1JeH6KMF1
#Wildfire on the Rise Since 1984 in Northern California’s Coastal Ranges
High-severity wildfires in northern coastal #California have been increasing by about 10% per decade since 1984.
#ClimateChange#Environment#Scicomm
https://t.co/A1MeoMdiVP
‘Just Following Orders’: Experimental Brain Study Shows How Obeying Orders Dulls Our Empathy
Read more & view full interview with @CasparEmilie, lead author of a new experimental study on how obeying orders affects the human brain: https://t.co/TpGGhmXCFD
#Neuroscience#Scicomm
How Not Surprising:
Human impact can explain 96% of all mammal species extinctions of the last hundred thousand years.
"We find essentially no evidence for climate-driven extinctions during the past 126,000 years."
#ClimateChange#Environment
https://t.co/RSI8fvlxOv
Scientists Predict That #COVID19 Will Become a Seasonal Virus – But Not Yet
"But we think it’s highly likely, given what we know so far, Covid-19 will eventually become seasonal, like other coronaviruses."
https://t.co/dbtRIhRvgY
Punctured Lung Affects Almost One in a Hundred Hospitalized #COVID19 Patients
Just under two-thirds of patients with a punctured lung survived, with a 71% survival rate among under 70s patients compared to 42% among older patients, based on UK data.
https://t.co/KcNKl1jlpF
Correcting #COVID19 Misconceptions May Require Speaking to Individuals’ Moral Values, According to New Research
#Research#Scicomm#WearAMask
https://t.co/1FIASieROC
‘Just Following Orders’: Experimental Brain Study Shows How Obeying Orders Dulls Our Empathy
In this Episode of UNPACKED we interview @CasparEmilie, the leading author of a new study on how "obeying orders" affects the brain ➡️ https://t.co/xtqpBTqdtC
#Neuroscience#Scicomm
#COVID-19 Deaths Among Black Essential Workers Linked to Racial Disparities
"The researchers found that Blacks were nearly 3 times more likely than whites to work in health care support jobs such as nursing assistants or orderlies."
#Racialinequality
https://t.co/LFOySEAPr2