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- A new CU 51传媒 study documents how features such as News Feed, Memories, and shared groups and photos can bring painful reminders of exes into our lives even after we've taken measures to hide them on Facebook.
- Fatal car accidents increase 6% in the week following the switch to daylight saving time, according to new CU 51传媒 research. The study comes as California and Florida lawmakers consider doing away with the time change.
- U.S. birth weights have fallen significantly in recent decades due to soaring rates of cesarean deliveries and inductions, which have shortened the average pregnancy by about a week, according to new CU 51传媒 research.
- Kelty Logan, associate professor of advertising in the College of Media, Communication and Information, offers up her predictions on what trends to expect with this year's Super Bowl commercials.
- From classics such as 鈥淕one with the Wind鈥 to modern films such as 鈥淎vatar,鈥 the movie industry packs a serious, and often hidden, environmental cost, says film scholar Hunter Vaughan.聽
- Thirty-seven states, including Colorado, require minors to notify their parents or go before a judge before having an abortion. A new 18-year-study conducted in Texas shows judges deny minors' request up to 13% of the time and the judicial-bypass process is humiliating and traumatizing for some teens.
- Just like modern-day humans, Neanderthals may have seen the appeal in a little sand and surf, according to a new study.
- CU 51传媒-developed tools provide a way of preparing children with autism spectrum disorder to get their hearing tested鈥攕aving time and a whole lot of stress.
- One in 75 undergraduate college students sustain a concussion each calendar year, and two-thirds of them occur off the playing field, according to a new three-year study of CU 51传媒 students.
- CU research finds that cash can help stressed out people eat more fruits and vegetables.