Adding social gaming elements to a behavior tracking program led people to exercise more frequently and helped them decrease their body-mass index, according to new research from the USC School of Cinematic Arts, the Keck [...]
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Social science + engineering = help for dying languages
Many of the world’s languages are disappearing. David Chiang wants to do something about that. Chiang, USC Viterbi research assistant professor and computational linguist at the USC Information Sciences Institute, worries that the loss of [...]
Tool promises private photo-sharing — even using Facebook and Flickr
In the next five minutes, roughly a half-million photos will be shared online. Embarrassing or not, many are only intended for a certain audience — family, or friends maybe — not the whole world. And [...]
Growing shorter: Adult health habits influence how much we shrink with age
Even if you didn’t eat your veggies or drink your milk as a child, your height is still in your hands, reveal new findings by economists from the University of Southern California, Harvard University and [...]
Los Angeles is no longer a city of newcomers
Los Angeles — a city of newcomers? Not anymore, according to new demographic projections released today by USC’s Population Dynamics Research Group. The report, “The Generational Future of Los Angeles: Projections to 2030 and Comparisons to Recent [...]
‘Test-and-treat’ HIV policies could increase dangerous drug resistance in Los Angeles
One of the most widely advocated strategies for dealing with HIV/AIDS could double the number of multi-drug-resistant HIV cases in the population of men who have sex with men (MSM) in LA County over the [...]
Scientists discover new use for harmful greenhouse gas
A team of chemists at USC has developed a way to transform a hitherto useless ozone-destroying greenhouse gas that is the byproduct of Teflon manufacture into reagents for producing pharmaceuticals. The discovery was published in [...]