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Internal state
Internal state is a term used to describe how conditions like mood and past experiences impact decision making and behavior. Internal states can be studied by evaluating outward behaviors. Someone experiencing fatigue being unable to walk down the street without taking a break is an example of an internal state.
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DEC 11, 2017Neuroscience
When someone talks to themselves, it can often look as if they are not quite all there, mentally. The image of a person ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimDEC 08, 2017Technology
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Obesity remains a significant health problem in the United States. About 15 million people are obese and since 40% of al ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimNOV 01, 2017Health & Medicine
Chronic pain is a condition that impacts about 1.5 billion people in the world. The causes of it are varied, from trauma ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimNOV 01, 2017Chemistry & Physics
An international team of physicists has produced high-intensity gamma beams that have the energy a billion times higher ...Written By: Daniel DuanOCT 23, 2017Space & Astronomy
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The International Space Station is useful, but NASA won't be using it for space research forever. Instead, NASA aims to ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 12, 2017Space & Astronomy
Astronomers watched and waited at approximately 1:42 A.M. Eastern time on Thursday morning as asteroid 2012 TC4 swooped ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 11, 2017Neuroscience
Yoga is something most people are familiar with, but what might not be as well-known is that yoga is more than just some ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimOCT 02, 2017Space & Astronomy
China’s space program is evolving quickly. The country recently announced its plans to send 13 different payloads ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 29, 2017Space & Astronomy
Anyone who’s paid any attention to SpaceX over the years knows that Elon Musk, the company’s CEO, has a slig ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 27, 2017Space & Astronomy
NASA and space agencies from all around the world share the eventual goal of pushing humanity’s footprint far beyo ...Written By: Anthony Bouchard
DEC 11, 2017
Neuroscience
When someone talks to themselves, it can often look as if they are not quite all there, mentally. The image of a person
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
DEC 08, 2017
Technology
The new Sarco machine is made by a 3D printer and enables painless suicide for the user.
Written By:
Julia Travers
DEC 07, 2017
Technology
The Center for Ecoliteracy and the Whole Kids Foundation created an interactive app called "Starting with Soil."
Written By:
Julia Travers
DEC 05, 2017
Drug Discovery & Development
Summary of ethical principles for biotechnology advances in human disease set forth by global summit
Written By:
Courtney Schaal
NOV 20, 2017
Cannabis Sciences
Your body has its own built-in cannabis system.
Written By:
Loren DeVito
NOV 20, 2017
Space & Astronomy
While several unanswered questions regarding Mars remain today, many answers could be uncovered by studying the red plan
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 20, 2017
Microbiology
Washing Your Thanksgiving Turkey Does More Harm than Good The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) reports tha
...
Written By:
Sarah Hertrich
NOV 17, 2017
Chemistry & Physics
Fusion experiment: MAST Plasma. Credit: CulhamFusionEnergy Francois Ryter from Germany’s Max Planck Institute for
...
Written By:
Daniel Duan
NOV 13, 2017
Earth & The Environment
The US is now the only country to not be involved in the Paris climate accord, news which comes after Syria stated at th
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
NOV 08, 2017
Space & Astronomy
Russia is now conducting research on how long-term space travel may impact human behavior. Six people, including three m
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 07, 2017
Technology
CASIS, Boeing and MassChallenge will fund three new space station research projects spanning the fields of stem cell res
...
Written By:
Julia Travers
NOV 07, 2017
Chemistry & Physics
In 2016, the Paris Agreement (also known as Paris climate accord) marked a turning point in the battle against climate c
...
Written By:
Daniel Duan
NOV 03, 2017
Microbiology
The thenatomicrobiome refers to the microbial community existing on or in an animal or human host after it dies. Better
...
Written By:
Sarah Hertrich
NOV 03, 2017
Health & Medicine
Obesity remains a significant health problem in the United States. About 15 million people are obese and since 40% of al
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
NOV 01, 2017
Health & Medicine
Chronic pain is a condition that impacts about 1.5 billion people in the world. The causes of it are varied, from trauma
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
NOV 01, 2017
Chemistry & Physics
An international team of physicists has produced high-intensity gamma beams that have the energy a billion times higher
...
Written By:
Daniel Duan
OCT 23, 2017
Space & Astronomy
Astronauts Joe Acaba and Randy Bresnik completed the third of three October spacewalks on Friday to conclude ongoing rep
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 19, 2017
Chemistry & Physics
If there are only two things to be said about proton therapy, the first is that it is superior in treatment quality for
...
Written By:
Daniel Duan
OCT 16, 2017
Videos
The International Space Station is useful, but NASA won't be using it for space research forever. Instead, NASA aims to
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 12, 2017
Space & Astronomy
Astronomers watched and waited at approximately 1:42 A.M. Eastern time on Thursday morning as asteroid 2012 TC4 swooped
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 11, 2017
Neuroscience
Yoga is something most people are familiar with, but what might not be as well-known is that yoga is more than just some
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
OCT 02, 2017
Space & Astronomy
China’s space program is evolving quickly. The country recently announced its plans to send 13 different payloads
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 29, 2017
Space & Astronomy
Anyone who’s paid any attention to SpaceX over the years knows that Elon Musk, the company’s CEO, has a slig
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 27, 2017
Space & Astronomy
NASA and space agencies from all around the world share the eventual goal of pushing humanity’s footprint far beyo
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard