Science news articles about 'face value'

... of automotive designs, and whether and how these findings correspond to the perception of human faces. Throughout evolution, humans have developed an ability to collect information on people's sex, ...

Humans excel at recognizing faces, but how we do this has been an abiding mystery in neuroscience and psychology. A new study from MIT looks at a particularly striking instance of failure: our ...

Earlier this month, Italian researchers made a claim that, if taken at face value, would earn them a place in scientific history. The DAMA (DArk MAtter) collaboration, based at the ...

... 20.6% of Bangladeshi, 12.2% Pakistani, 7.3% Indian, and 8.2% white owned businesses. At face value, these results would seem to be an indication of ethnic discrimination, however Dr ...

According to a new study, people who were shown pictures of cars attributed personalities to them.

... and that for lean mice – and therefore lean humans, if prior mouse studies were to be taken at face value  – caloric restrictions as an anti-aging strategy may be a pointless, frustrating and even ...

Profiling is a hot-button issue--civil liberties groups maintain that making assumptions based on race, nationality or ethnicity is unacceptably discriminatory, whereas some prominent conservatives ...

... but to inject their own opinions. Instead, judges should be required to take evidence at face value, she said. For example, an injury lawsuit against a property owner who claims the plaintiff was ...

... ,000 known isolates of anthrax and there is little genetic variation between one isolate and the next. So at face value, it is a really boring genome. But what we see here is that the phage DNA, which ...

... the Xia. Less willing to take ancient texts at face value than their predecessors, this new generation of Chinese ... evidence of the country's rich history now face jail time and even the death penalty ...

... concurrency has accelerated the spread of HIV in Africa. "People have just accepted at face value that this is the main thing that's driving the epidemic," said epidemiologist Mark Lurie, assistant ...

... disappearance of local residents. If you were to accept this film at face value, you would be left in no doubt whatsoever that these disappearances were the result of "close encounters of the ...