Science news articles about 'revenge'

  • Animal Instincts: Main Street Seeks Revenge on Wall Street

    The public wants revenge on Wall Street, a behavioral economist says.
  • Men fighting over women? It's nothing new, suggests research

    ... Department said: "It seems this community was specifically targeted, as could happen in a cycle of revenge between rival groups. Although resources and population were undoubtedly factors in central ...
  • How Montezuma gets his revenge

    Every year, about 500 million people worldwide are infected with the parasite that causes dysentery, a global medical burden that among infectious diseases is second only to malaria. In a new study ...
  • Growing up amid war affects children's moral development

    ... and if so, how they brought those moral concepts to bear on situations related to survival and revenge—situations that are relevant to life in the midst of political conflict and that might represent ...
  • Scientists view both Obama, McCain as supportive

    (AP) -- Call it the political revenge of the nerds. For nearly eight years, many mainstream scientists have been frustrated with the Bush administration. They've claimed that science has been ...
  • Brain's 'hate circuit' identified

    ... to exercise judgment in calculating moves to harm, injure or otherwise extract revenge. "Interestingly, the activity in some of these structures in response to viewing a hated face is proportional ...
  • Geeks may be chic, but negative nerd stereotype still exists, professor says

    ... & Nerdy" parody video; the hip-hop subculture called "Nerdcore"; and, of course, the 1984 film "Revenge of the Nerds." The stock character nerd is typically depicted as a white male with glasses and ...
  • Vindictiveness doesn't pay

    ... reciprocal people back into line. Ultimately the danger arises that they will take revenge – for example, by refusing to work, or by sabotage. "On the basis of these theoretical considerations it ...
  • PHOTOS: Blackbeard's Booty Found off North Carolina?

    A sword guard, coin, and navigational tool are among artifacts recently found in a shipwreck thought to be Queen Anne's Revenge, the vessel of infamous 18th-century pirate Blackbeard.
  • Warriors do not always get the girl

    ... benefit? The researchers suggest that while both the Yanomamo and Waorani's aggressiveness is for revenge, the Yanomamo's warfare cycles have peaceful interludes where warriors can reap the benefits ...
  • Guns, Germs, and a Lawsuit

    ... that Diamond erred when he wrote a New Yorker article claiming that one of the tribesmen committed a revenge-motivated murder. The suit also names the New Yorker, and was instigated in part by Rhonda ...
  • Battling Termites? Just Add Sugar

    Consider it sweet revenge: A substance derived from glucose has been shown to weaken termites' immune systems, possibly opening the door to safer pest controls, a new study says.
  • Giant alien robots start life as sketches

    (AP) -- Giant alien robots don't actually exist. So the dozens featured in "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" had to be built from the ground up.
  • Promises Come At A Price

    ... trustworthy. If you believe you are trustworthy, you oblige yourself to keep your promises. And other people will hold you to account for them; if you do not keep your promise, you can expect revenge.
  • How to Lose Traffic and Alienate People: The Revenge!

    Welcome to another installment of The Grouse's semi-annual lambasting of poor practices on the Web. When I compiled my first list of all things online and terrible six months ago, I thought I'd been ...

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