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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

An international study found that despite widespread acceptance that mental illness is a disease that can be effectively treated, a common "backbone" of prejudice exists that unfairly paints people with conditions such as depression and schizophrenia as undesirable for close personal relationships and positions of authority.

New research from social psychologists at Indiana University Bloomington suggests that feeling powerful might protect against the debilitating effects of negative stereotypes.

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments next week on two cases that seek to overturn bans on gay marriage. Indiana University experts on law, sociology and public affairs are available to comment.

Two Indiana University Bloomington faculty members in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences have won major awards for early career contributions to their fields. Brian D'Onofrio, an associate professor of clinical science, has won the 2013 Spence Award for Transformative Early Career Contributions to Psychological Science from the Association for Psychological Science. Mary Murphy, assistant professor of social psychology who directs the Mind and Identity in Context Lab, was named a 2013 APS Rising Star.

U.S. News and World Report again gave high marks to Indiana University programs in education, business, law and medicine in its annual Best Graduate Schools rankings. The School of Library and Information Sciences at IU Bloomington was rated eighth-best in the country, and the College of Arts and Sciences' humanities and social-science programs were among the nation's best.

If you ask a rat whether it knows how it came to acquire a certain coveted piece of chocolate, Indiana University neuroscientists conclude, the answer is a resounding, "Yes." A study newly published in the journal Current Biology offers the first evidence of source memory in a nonhuman animal.

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments Wednesday, Feb. 27, on Shelby County v. Holder, a case involving a challenge to the constitutionality of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act. Michael Pitts, professor of law at the Indiana University McKinney School of Law in Indianapolis, is available to discuss the case.

Using a grown-up version of the rock-paper-scissors game, Indiana University cognitive scientists offer a new theory of the group dynamics that arise in situations as varied as cycles of fashion, fluctuations of financial markets, eBay bidding wars and political campaign strategies.

The economic costs of crime in the United States are staggering, running into the trillions of dollars. What can research on the costs of crime tell us about effective crime-reduction policies? A symposium organized by Indiana University criminologist William Alex Pridemore for this weekend's annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science will provide some answers.

Indiana University faculty members and graduate students will take part in the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, taking place Feb. 14 to 18 in at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston.

Seminars sponsored this week at Indiana University will take audiences behind the headlines to gain a better understanding of forces affecting U.S. policy and global relations: the use of unmanned drone aircraft for intellligence and counterterrorism purposes, the crisis in Syria and the promise and perils of counterinsurgency warfare.

Jason Jackson, associate professor of folklore at Indiana University Bloomington, has been named the new director of the Mathers Museum of World Cultures. He is the Mathers' third director. With the appointment, Jackson comes full circle, having worked at the museum during his first year of graduate school at IU, studying cultural anthropology and folklore.

IU Health and Wellness includes insights about the controversial issue of whether the NFL ignored the dangers of concussions. Also, in time for Valentine's Day, IU experts discuss hookup and (non)dating culture on college campuses and how finding a mate has much in common with finding a job.

The U.S. Supreme Court issued its landmark Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion on Jan. 22, 1973, 40 years ago next Tuesday. Indiana University experts comment on the anniversary and the changing nature of abortion as an issue in American public life.

Indiana University's Katy Börner, the Victor H. Yngve Professor of Information Science at the School of Library and Information Science and an international leader in information visualization, will offer a free massive open online course on the topic beginning Jan. 22.

At a Bloomington, Ind., toy store, kids ages 8 to 12 gather weekly to trade Pokemon cards and share their mutual absorption in the intrigue and adventure of Pokemon. This may seem an unlikely source of material to test the theories in cognitive neuroscience. But that is where Indiana University brain scientists Karin Harman James and Tom James were when an idea took hold.

Behavior problems, not depression, are linked to lower grades for depressed adolescents, according to an Indiana University study published in the December issue of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior.

What types of public messages will most likely deter drug and alcohol abuse or dissuade people from engaging in risky behavior? Negatively framed messages may not be an effective way to reach those most in need of persuasion, suggests a new study in Psychology of Addictive Behaviors by researchers from Indiana University and Wayne State University.

An Indiana University study in the Journal of Child Neurology proposes an innovative treatment for developmental coordination disorder, a potentially debilitating neurological disorder in which the development of a child's fine or gross motor skills, or both, is impaired. Until now, children with DCD had been generally thought unable to learn or improve their motor skills.