Hybrid Approach to Creativity: Arts, Science and Everyday Life
The investigation of domain specificity by means of structural models is undoubtedly one of the most cutting edge subjects in creativity research. Whereas the dominant...
How to design a cancer prevention smartphone app
It is estimated that by the year 2030, cancer will harm more than 26 million people all over the world. Many factors contribute to cancer,...
How family stress affects child development
Family stress, such as financial problems, can strongly influence children’s physical, cognitive, and social-emotional development. Therefore, it is important to understand how this happens and...
Co-use of marijuana and cigarettes can strongly harm pregnancy
Recent surveys show that 2-11% of pregnant women use marijuana during pregnancy. Since marijuana use has become legal, the number is increasing and more...
What we know about skin cancer
Although most skin cancers are not life-threatening, they do hurt our health. As the incidence rates continue to rise, skin cancer has become a...
Bad boys, good girls? Parents do not discipline their sons and daughters differently
In both science and society, it is debated how much parents contribute to gender differences in the behavior of their children. Are boys for example...
Asthma: the most common chronic disease in Olympic athletes
Asthma is the most common chronic disease in Olympic athletes. In a review published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, scientists summarize causes...
Community-based prevention of type 2 diabetes
Type 2 diabetes is a progressive condition in which the body becomes resistant to the normal effects of insulin and may gradually lose the...
A new way to treat diabetes
Diabetes is a disease that causes the level of blood sugar to become too high. In healthy individuals, two hormones - insulin and glucagon...
Green tea molecule can prevent Zika virus entry, but it is too early to...
A recent study published in Virology finds that the green tea molecule EGCG can inhibit Zika virus entry. This finding brings new hope to...