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Observation Study
An observational study is done by observing individuals and/or measuring a given outcome. In observational studies, no attempt is made by the researchers to intervene or alter the outcome. An example of an observational study is surveying a random group of individuals about what they eat for breakfast and determining if their breakfast habits impacted body weight.
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JUN 19, 2017Plants & Animals
The idea of being chased by just one snake is scary enough to most people, but when the thought comes around of being ch ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUN 19, 2017Space & Astronomy
Astronomers regularly study pulsars because there is a lot about them we have yet to understand. On the other hand, one ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUN 18, 2017Plants & Animals
Researchers have been stumped as to why female elk seem to live up to four times longer in the wild than male elk do, an ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUN 17, 2017Cardiology
People with chronic immune-mediated inflammatory diseases (IMIDs) like rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, ...Written By: Kara MarkerJUN 15, 2017Immunology
Expression of a gene called gp96 has been discovered as vital for the training of T cells, educating these immune fighte ...Written By: Kara MarkerJUN 14, 2017Microbiology
An international team of researchers engineered a fungus to kill mosquitoes. Mosquitoes spread serious human dise ...Written By: Kerry EvansJUN 12, 2017Immunology
Johns Hopkins scientists have a new tool against cancer, and it’s a thousand times smaller than a human hai ...Written By: Kara MarkerJUN 12, 2017Neuroscience
Hardly a week goes by in the scientific world without a new study or some new information on the effect of alcohol consu ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimJUN 10, 2017Cancer
Coffee is once again in the spotlight as associated with a cancer. And this time, the study results seem to favor the cu ...JUN 09, 2017Microbiology
Everyone needs a helping hand from time to time, right? Well, bacteria are no different. Researchers from the Helmholtz ...Written By: Kerry EvansJUN 09, 2017Plants & Animals
Have you ever noticed that sometimes when you tease your dog enough times, they’ll catch on and stop falling for y ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUN 08, 2017Cancer
Marijuana has been a popular drug long before it was legalized across several states in the US. This plant shows up in t ...JUN 08, 2017Neuroscience
Every day as we navigate around our homes, neighborhoods and workplaces, we see people we know. A friendly wave to a cow ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimJUN 07, 2017Earth & The Environment
Last year in April of 2016, temperatures in mainland Southeast Asia shot above the all-time highs of previous records, c ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanJUN 07, 2017Space & Astronomy
Astronomers are stumped by the unexplained Houdini act of what was once a distant star dubbed N6946-BH1. Originally foun ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUN 07, 2017Plants & Animals
Dinosaur researchers continue to go back and forth about what dinosaurs might have looked like back in the day, and it&r ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUN 04, 2017Space & Astronomy
It previously made headlines that NASA is planning a mission for 2018 to launch a probe closer to the Sun than we ever h ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUN 03, 2017Plants & Animals
Climate change can impact our environment in various ways, and as we’ve experienced first-hand with climate change ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUN 02, 2017Cell & Molecular Biology
Research investigating how brown fat impacts metabolism has been hampered by the lack of a good model.Written By: Carmen LeitchJUN 02, 2017Videos
The Sun is the closest star we have access to, and for that reason, most of what we know about stars today is based off ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUN 01, 2017Cancer
A hot cup of tea can do wonders to soothe and calm. But this popular beverage could be altering the body’s epigene ...MAY 29, 2017Neuroscience
There is no known cure or treatment for autism, but that doesn’t stop researchers from looking for any possible op ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimMAY 27, 2017Videos
Researchers began to learn more about the community of microbes that resides in our gastrointestinal tract as they gaine ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAY 27, 2017Cell & Molecular Biology
Researchers that set out to study metabolism in cancer cells came to an interesting conclusion - some kinds of cancer ha ...Written By: Carmen Leitch
JUN 19, 2017
Plants & Animals
The idea of being chased by just one snake is scary enough to most people, but when the thought comes around of being ch
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUN 19, 2017
Space & Astronomy
Astronomers regularly study pulsars because there is a lot about them we have yet to understand. On the other hand, one
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUN 18, 2017
Plants & Animals
Researchers have been stumped as to why female elk seem to live up to four times longer in the wild than male elk do, an
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUN 17, 2017
Cardiology
People with chronic immune-mediated inflammatory diseases (IMIDs) like rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis,
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JUN 15, 2017
Immunology
Expression of a gene called gp96 has been discovered as vital for the training of T cells, educating these immune fighte
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JUN 14, 2017
Microbiology
An international team of researchers engineered a fungus to kill mosquitoes. Mosquitoes spread serious human dise
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
JUN 12, 2017
Immunology
Johns Hopkins scientists have a new tool against cancer, and it’s a thousand times smaller than a human hai
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JUN 12, 2017
Neuroscience
Hardly a week goes by in the scientific world without a new study or some new information on the effect of alcohol consu
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
JUN 10, 2017
Cancer
Coffee is once again in the spotlight as associated with a cancer. And this time, the study results seem to favor the cu
...
JUN 09, 2017
Microbiology
Everyone needs a helping hand from time to time, right? Well, bacteria are no different. Researchers from the Helmholtz
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
JUN 09, 2017
Plants & Animals
Have you ever noticed that sometimes when you tease your dog enough times, they’ll catch on and stop falling for y
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUN 08, 2017
Cancer
Marijuana has been a popular drug long before it was legalized across several states in the US. This plant shows up in t
...
JUN 08, 2017
Neuroscience
Every day as we navigate around our homes, neighborhoods and workplaces, we see people we know. A friendly wave to a cow
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
JUN 07, 2017
Earth & The Environment
Last year in April of 2016, temperatures in mainland Southeast Asia shot above the all-time highs of previous records, c
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JUN 07, 2017
Space & Astronomy
Astronomers are stumped by the unexplained Houdini act of what was once a distant star dubbed N6946-BH1. Originally foun
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUN 07, 2017
Plants & Animals
Dinosaur researchers continue to go back and forth about what dinosaurs might have looked like back in the day, and it&r
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUN 04, 2017
Space & Astronomy
It previously made headlines that NASA is planning a mission for 2018 to launch a probe closer to the Sun than we ever h
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUN 03, 2017
Plants & Animals
Climate change can impact our environment in various ways, and as we’ve experienced first-hand with climate change
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUN 02, 2017
Cell & Molecular Biology
Research investigating how brown fat impacts metabolism has been hampered by the lack of a good model.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 02, 2017
Videos
The Sun is the closest star we have access to, and for that reason, most of what we know about stars today is based off
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUN 01, 2017
Cancer
A hot cup of tea can do wonders to soothe and calm. But this popular beverage could be altering the body’s epigene
...
MAY 29, 2017
Neuroscience
There is no known cure or treatment for autism, but that doesn’t stop researchers from looking for any possible op
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
MAY 27, 2017
Videos
Researchers began to learn more about the community of microbes that resides in our gastrointestinal tract as they gaine
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 27, 2017
Cell & Molecular Biology
Researchers that set out to study metabolism in cancer cells came to an interesting conclusion - some kinds of cancer ha
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch