There are exceptions, of course - some athletes will never be ethical no matter how much coaching they receive and not all coaches are ethical, but overall coaching helps athletes become more than better athletes.
New survey data from Concordia University says coaches exert moral influence over athletes and how athletes respond.
Biofuels were all the rage in the 1990s, with Vice-President Al Gore declaring them the Holy Grail of fossil fuel replacement. Unfortunately, no quality science agreed with that assessment yet they have been passed into law anyway by anti-science politicians who saw a way to please part of the voter base.
New papers in arXiv show that the Kepler space telescope continues to fulfill its mission of searching for exoplanets, especially those in the 'habitable' zone, a region where liquid water could exist on a planet's surface, around stars.
Measuring 'intelligence' is a much art as science. Even using the word intelligence sends people down a philosophical rabbit hole, disagreeing about what the word means.
So can there be a 'universal' intelligence test that measures...okay, we have to use the world 'intelligence' despite it being a logical fallacy to use it in its own definition...intelligence regardless of cultural or language?
José Hernández-Orallo, a researcher at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, says he can do even better. He says his intelligence test can fairly measure the intelligence of adults or kids. Even robots.
If wearing 3-D glasses makes you feel like we haven't progressed much since the 1950s, you are not alone. Fortunately, MIT is in the 1970s - namely, the movie "Star Wars" from 1977, using a 2011 Microsoft Xbox Kinect to create streaming holographic video of Princess Leia, among other things.
Their work is still research, achieving a few frames per second and low resolution, but it may make 3-D TV irrelevant.
Can olive oil prevent mental illness?
A new study says the ingestion of trans-fats and saturated fats increases the risk of suffering depression and that olive oil protects against this mental illness.
The study by researchers from Navarra and Las Palmas de Gran Canaria used 12,059 SUN Project volunteers over the course of six years; the volunteers had their diet, lifestyle and ailments analyzed at the beginning of the project, over its course and at the end of the project. The researchers say none of the volunteers reported depression at the beginning of the study but, at the end, 657 new cases had been detected.
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