Social Science

With privacy concerns addressed, Indiana University has re-released the free app Kinsey Reporter, a global mobile survey platform for collecting and reporting anonymous data about sexual and other intimate behaviors.
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A team of American and Italian neuroscientists has identified a cellular change in the brain that accompanies obesity and could explain a tendency for the body to maintain undesirable weight levels -- rather than ideal weight -- and identify possible targets for pharmacological efforts to address obesity.
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Indiana University confirmed its leadership in high performance, data-intensive computing by unveiling Big Red II, a powerful new supercomputer with a processing speed of one thousand trillion floating-point operations per second (one petaFLOPS).
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Linda Smith, Distinguished Professor and Chancellor's Professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Indiana University Bloomington, has received the 2013 American Psychological Association Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions.
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As demands for long work hours continue to increase, an Indiana University study found that mothers, more so than other employees, are more likely to leave these jobs in male-dominated fields, while this trend is not seen in balanced or female-dominated occupations.
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A special concert featuring world-renowned pianist Menahem Pressler and Friends will highlight the 40th anniversary celebration of the Robert A. and Sandra S. Borns Jewish Studies Program at Indiana University Bloomington.
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