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Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Apr 27, 2014

Family's firstborn most likely to excel: study

What do Angela Merkel, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Christine Lagarde, Oprah Winfrey, Sheryl Sandberg, JK Rowling and Beyonce have in common? Other than riding high in Forbes list of the world's most powerful women, they are also all firstborn children in their families.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Apr 17, 2014

Casual pot use among young alters brain's motivation region: study

Young, casual marijuana smokers experience potentially harmful changes to their brains, with the drug altering regions of the mind related to motivation and emotion, researchers have found.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Nov 29, 2013

Gut feelings predict wedded bliss

The harbinger of an unhappy marriage might be your gut.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Jul 31, 2013

Can low-nicotine smokes end addiction?

Beverly Anusionwu, a smoker for three decades who favors Maverick menthols, was enticed to the small lab inside the University of Pittsburgh's psychology department by an ad promising free cigarettes and a few bucks for her time.
WORLD / Science & Health
Jul 1, 2013

Study tracks couples' emotional interplay in conflicts

Picture this scenario: You are on a road trip with your partner, trying to find your hotel, lost in an unfamiliar area and driving in circles.
WORLD / Science & Health
Jan 24, 2013

Smokers who quit by about age 40 can stave off early death, study finds

Smokers who quit by around age 40 can stave off an early death, according to a landmark study that fills key gaps in our knowledge of smoking-related health ills.
JAPAN
Apr 10, 1997

Ota 'respects' heliport study

NAHA, Okinawa Pref. -- Okinawa Gov. Masahide Ota said April 10 that he would respect a decision by the municipal government of Nago to approve a feasibility study for a new offshore heliport for the U.S. Marines in northeastern Okinawa.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 24, 2023

The biggest earners may not be the smartest workers, study says

The study found that higher general intelligence was correlated to higher wages — but only up to a threshold of about 600,000 Swedish krona ($57,300) a year.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Jan 24, 2023

Earth's inner core may have started spinning other way, study says

The planet's inner core, a hot iron ball the size of Pluto, has stopped spinning in the same direction as the rest of the planet and might even be rotating the other way.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Nov 27, 2022

Next COVID-19 strain may be more dangerous, lab study shows

COVID-19 samples from an immunosupressed individual over six months showed that the virus evolved to become more pathogenic, the early study found.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Nov 11, 2022

Repeat COVID-19 is riskier than first infection, study finds

Reinfected patients had a more than doubled risk of death and a more than tripled risk of hospitalization compared with those who were infected with COVID-19 just once, the study showed.
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 26, 2022

New COVID boosters aren’t better than old ones, small study finds

The early results don't mean that getting a bivalent shot has no benefit, but they do raise the question of whether the switch to a new version of the vaccine was necessary.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 18, 2022

Life expectancies diverged in pandemic's second year, study says

Because governments have counted COVID-19 statistics in different ways, researchers have sought to give a clearer picture of the pandemic's true impact.
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 6, 2022

Climate change made summer hotter and drier worldwide, study finds

Europe, China and North America were parched by extreme heat that would have been u2018virtually impossible' without the effects of global warming, scientists said.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 30, 2022

Nearly 1 in 4 globally at risk from severe flooding, study finds

Inundations from heavy rainfall and storm surges affect millions of people every year and cause billions of dollars of damage to homes, infrastructure and economies.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 1, 2022

Climate change is behind weird rainfall patterns in Europe, study says

The research is the first to show the direct link between seasonal rainfall trends in Europe and climate change
Japan Times
JAPAN
May 11, 2022

Researchers trace the evolutionary origins of the Japanese wolf

A study suggests the now-extinct Japanese wolf originated through the hybridization of ancient, giant Pleistocene wolves and continental wolf lineages tens of thousands of years ago.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Mar 25, 2022

Microplastics found in blood for the first time, study says

Scientists found 17 out of the 22 healthy people they took samples from had quantifiable amounts of plastic particles in their blood.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 9, 2021

Anxiety surged during pandemic, particularly among women: study

Many women found themselves bearing the brunt of household work and facing an increased risk of domestic violence, a study published in the Lancet on Friday found.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Sep 18, 2021

Study rewrites understanding of modern Japan's genetic ancestry

New research shows that the people of Japan bear genetic signatures from three ancient populations rather than just two as previously thought — a more complex ancestry for the nation.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 28, 2021

Delta variant doubles COVID-19 hospitalization risk, study finds

People with the delta variant are more than twice as likely to be hospitalized as those with the alpha strain, raising the prospect of a greater burden on health services this winter.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 12, 2021

Handful of cities driving urban greenhouse gas emissions, study says

Just 25 big cities — almost all of them in China — accounted for more than half of the climate-warming gases pumped out by a sample of 167 urban hubs around the world.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
May 17, 2021

Long work hours are a killer, WHO study shows

The study showed that people living in Southeast Asia and the Western Pacific region — a WHO-defined region which includes China, Japan and Australia — were the most affected.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
May 1, 2021

Risk from virus variants remains after first Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, U.K. study finds

A single dose of the vaccine may not generate a sufficient immune response to protect against dominant new variants, except in people who have already been infected with COVID-19.

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