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A recent study shows how nurses can help people in rural communities, with limited finances, get nutritious food and clean water, and face a dignified end to their lives.

Researchers spoke to women in Malawi with HIV or terminal cancers and their caregivers.

Food security was an important issue...

http://researchstoryteller.com/espressoknowledge/africanursesfood

How did the Milky Way come to be?

Researchers recently answered this using artificial intelligence and in the process, created the complete family tree for our place in the universe...

http://researchstoryteller.com/espressoknowledge/krakenmilkywaygalaxy

Researchers analyzed a June 2020 Statistics Canada COVID19 survey to find that men, non-immigrants, young adults and residents in rural areas are less likely to wear masks, wash hands, socially distance, and avoid crowds.

They are now among the highest spreader groups in the second wave.

Policymakers could target them with additional public-health interventions...

http://researchstoryteller.com/espressoknowledge/junecovid19survey

Many Canadians are not using online resources that could help them cope with mental health impacts of COVID-19.

A national survey in May of 3000 participants found 65% reporting adverse mental health impacts due to COVID-19.

But only two per cent accessed apps, websites, or other supports to help them cope...

http://researchstoryteller.com/espressoknowledge/onlinementalhealthcovid19

A new study explores how much people think they themselves could give to charitable causes, as well as how much they think lower or higher earners should donate.

The general perception is that higher earners have more spare money and thus are ethically obliged to donate more.

Researchers found that people overestimated how much spare money a higher earner has in hand.

http://researchstoryteller.com/espressoknowledge/wealthandcharity

A new study shows that the anti-nausea medicine domperidone significantly reduces how much people look away from disgusting images.

Disgust is a natural response to unpleasant sights.

It has evolved to help us survive and avoid things that might spread disease, like rotting food, bodily waste, and insects.

But for some, disgust becomes pathological, affecting mental health.

http://researchstoryteller.com/espressoknowledge/domperidonedisguststomach

A new study shows that people put more weight on their own beliefs than on those of others.

But this self-belief is strongly influenced by how closely others have similar beliefs.

The study helps explain coronavirus deniers or people who are not convinced about the results of the US presidential election. ..

http://researchstoryteller.com/espressoknowledge/beliefbubbles

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Researchers analyzed COVID19's effect on Swiss media. They found people increasingly returning to traditional news media and wanting evidence-based, reliable information. But the media is having difficulty generating revenue.

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Researchers have studied the extent to which countries influence their nitrogen pollution and crop yields.

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Researchers suggest having restaurants inside jails to reduce reoffending rates in New Zealand.

Prison dining programs are changing the public perception of prisoners and this is key to their wider rehabilitation.

http://researchstoryteller.com/espressoknowledge/prisonerdiningprograms