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Survey of more than a thousand Tinder users, half said they were not interested in meeting offline, and nearly two-thirds were already married or "in a relationship.": For many people, online dating has a similar appeal as social media - a source of entertainment, distraction and self-esteem

20-minute brisk walks can dramatically reduce depression risk, research finds. Findings remained consistent even after accounting for various factors such as sex, education, age, smoking and alcohol consumption, obesity, antidepressant use, and the presence of chronic illness.

Hospital understaffing and poor work conditions associated with physician and nurse burnout and intent to leave. The solutions are not resilience training for clinicians to better cope with adverse working conditions but organizational improvements for safe workloads and better work-life balance.

Children of highly religious mothers are more likely to internalize their problems, study finds

Birds are using anti-bird spikes in nests, study finds. Dutch researchers have found that some birds use the spikes as weapons around their nests - using them to keep pests away in the same way that humans do.

New study finds music lessons increase gray matter in older adults: research demonstrates the potential for music learning as a non-pharmacological treatment for age-related cognitive decline.

Same-sex sociosexual behavior is widespread and heritable in male rhesus macaques. Study found macaques that engaged in same-sex behavior had more offspring than those that didn't, and that bisexuality is heritable in this species, so capable of evolving.

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