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Valentine's Day Got You Blue? There's an Upside

Unpleasant emotions like sadness and anger can feel overwhelming, but recent research suggests they can trigger behaviors that lead to something better Unpleasant emotions like sadness and anger can feel overwhelming, but recent research suggests they can trigger behaviors that lead to something better FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is…

How Much Worry about Mass Shootings Is Too Much?

A shopping mall in Texas, a private school in Tennessee, a bank in Kentucky and a dance studio in California: these are the sites of some of the public mass shootings in the U.S. in 2023 alone, representing just a slice of the presumed safe spaces rocked by these tragedies. As mass shootings in the country have risen, evidence is mounting that they are having a far-reaching mental health impact. A 2019 survey by the American Psychological Association (APA) found that 79 percent of Americans reported stress over the…

The Weird Reason We’re Afraid of Clowns

Are you scared of clowns? You are not alone. Coulrophobia, or the fear of clowns, is a widely acknowledged phenomenon. Studies indicate this fear is present among both adults and children in many different cultures. Yet it is not well understood due to a lack of focused research. While numerous possible explanations of the phobia had been put forward in academic literature, no studies had specifically investigated its origins. So we set out to discover the reasons people are frightened by clowns, and to understand the…

Colliding Dwarf Galaxies Reveal a Glimpse of the Early Universe

For the first time, astronomers think they’ve spotted two pairs of merging dwarf galaxies, with each pair sporting a duo of soon-to-collide black holes. The observations could reveal new details about the early formation of large galaxies like our own Milky Way, as well as the supermassive black holes that lurk at their centers. Despite their relatively small size, dwarf galaxies pack a hefty scientific punch. Thought to be the most abundant galaxy type during the first several hundred million years after the big bang,…