2019 EurekAlert! Trending Release List the most international ever

video: The No. 1 most popular release featured a video demonstrating the rocking bed used in the studies.

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Laurence Bayer and Aurore Perrault

The EurekAlert! 2019 Trending Release List is the most geographically diverse to date, with more than half of the top 10 from outside the United States. For the first time, news releases from Japan, Russia, and Norway occupied spots on the annual trending list, joined by returners from Canada and the U.K.

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Health-related releases dominated the Trending List, including the year's most popular release about a pair of studies in the journal Current Biology on the beneficial effects of the rocking motion on sleep and memory conducted by Swiss scientists. The news release, issued by the publisher Cell Press, received 278,119 views.

The 3rd most popular release of the year described a National Institute of Mental Health study about the Netflix show "13 Reasons Why." It found the release of the show was associated with a 28.9% increase in suicide rates among U.S. youth ages 10-17 in the month following the show's release.

The "femme fatale effect" was put to the test in six experiments and described in the 4th trending release by Washington State University. The research found that attractive businesswomen were considered by study participants to be less trustworthy, less truthful, and more worthy of being fired.

In long-term heterosexual relationships, passion is the only factor that determines the frequency of sex, according to the 5th most-visited release from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.


IMAGE: The second most popular release featured an illustration depicting "time reversal."

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