Having hyper-controlling parents at age 13 predicts less support in romantic relationships by the age of 29, a lower likelihood of even being on a relationship at 32 and less academic achievement by the age of 32.
Psychology professor James Coan says most of the time, holding hands with a friend, romantic partner, parent or child is literally good for your health.
Dubbed 鈥渢he most insightful clinical investigator of allergic diseases of his generation,鈥 Dr. Thomas Platts-Mills famously discovered a red meat allergy associated with lone star ticks, and linked dust mite allergens to asthma. He鈥檚 not done yet.
Environmental scientists at the University of Virginia are restoring seagrass meadows to coastal lagoons on the Eastern Shore. Such meadows can store twice the carbon dioxide of terrestrial forests, offering one option for reducing global warming, but are under global threat.
麻豆破解版 Center for Applied Biomechanics is developing new models for assessing injury risk that more accurately reflect reality for women and for obese drivers and passengers.
What is time? Does life exist beyond Earth? What happens in a black hole? University of Virginia professor Kelsey Johnson explores the unsolved mysteries of the universe in her popular UVA course.
Researchers at the School of Medicine have determined that the brain is directly connected to the immune system by vessels previously thought not to exist.
鈥淚 really did not believe there were structures in the body that we were not aware of. I thought the body was mapped,鈥 said Jonathan Kipnis, a professor in the Department of Neuroscience and director of the University鈥檚 Center for Brain Immunology and Glia. How these vessels could have escaped detection when the lymphatic system has been so thoroughly mapped throughout the body is surprising on its own.
University of Virginia researchers at the Center for Applied Biomechanics are developing a dynamic rollover crash test and improving crash dummies in an effort to improve on current approaches to rollover safety ratings.