Jul 5, 2015 | Earth, Energy & Environment, Life & Non-humans
Between Shark Week on Discovery this week and SyFy’s upcoming Sharknado 3, sharks are getting plenty of love on TV this summer – but what about the little guys? “The small things are where it’s at in the ocean,” said David Caron, a USC professor of biological sciences...
Jun 30, 2015 | Brain & Behavior
A nose-wrinkling fishy smell stops us from eating something unsafe and getting sick, and it helps us avoid trouble because it raises our suspicion. Researchers have found another benefit: It can boost critical thinking. Scientists think our tendency to respond to...
Jun 25, 2015 | Brain & Behavior
Doctors at the Keck School of Medicine of USC are calling on Southern Californians to join the Brain Health Registry, an Internet-based health registry, and help find cures for neurological disorders such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and depression. Launched in San...
May 5, 2015 | Brain & Behavior, Health
When it comes to sweeteners, one indulgence makes our brains predisposed to do it, according to a new study by researchers at Keck Medicine of USC. In a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences’ “Early Edition,” Kathleen Page, assistant...
May 1, 2015 | Physics & Mathematics, Technology
The digital world depends on algorithms — sets of detailed instructions that computers follow to solve problems. Algorithms determine the ads we see on the Internet, matchmaking on OKCupid and the news in social media feeds. In a computerized era, these processes will...
Nov 24, 2014 | Uncategorized
Think affordable apartments are hard to find in LA or New York? Try searching in Beijing. And then try searching under it. Urbanization researcher Annette Kim spent last year in China’s capital, where she studied an overlooked side effect of the country’s rapid...
Apr 18, 2013 | Brain & Behavior, Health, Technology
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 School of Medicine of USC, the USC School of...
Apr 17, 2013 | Brain & Behavior, Technology
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 these languages would mean a...
