Don’t believe your eyes—pleasant smells can make a woman’s face more attractive than you’d otherwise think. A new study published in PLOS One confirms what the perfume industry has suspected all along. Researchers had eighteen young adults (two thirds were women) examine eight pictures of female faces and rate their … Read More
Intelligent people are more likely to be trusting and people who score lower on measures of intelligence tend to be more suspicious, according to a new study published in PLOS One. Researchers used subjects from the General Social Survey, a massive national US survey issued every one or two years … Read More
Are macadamia nuts from the same family as peaches? If you heard that from Adrian Babeshko, you might believe that. From Czeslaw Ratynska? Maybe not. That’s the gist of a new study, anyway. Researchers publishing in PLOS One found that people are more likely to trust names that are easier … Read More
In a study sure to ruin a few people’s day, researchers have found out that using treadmills at workstations might improve productivity. That’s right, walking while you work might improve your rate of work. Presumably because you’d like to stop working sooner. More so that usual, we mean. The study, … Read More
Here’s a surprising statistic: iron deficiency affects over two billion people. Here’s statistic, albeit a depressing one: fifteen million people die annually due to stroke, and it isn’t just old people either. So, want to minimize your risk? Make sure you aren’t iron deficient. A new study published in PLOS … Read More
