... of Press/Politics published by SAGE shatters the myths, finding that much of the conventional wisdom about Arab journalists that has shaped U.S. public diplomacy toward the region lacks substance. To ...
Japanese scientists said Friday they had derived stem cells from wisdom teeth, opening another way to study deadly diseases without the ethical controversy of using embryos.
Dental pulp from a wisdom tooth could be a new source of therapeutic stem cells, sidestepping the ethical concerns of embryonic cells, Japanese researchers claim.
... such publications. However, the researchers found no previous studies using the keyword "wisdom" in combination with the terms neurobiology, neuroimaging or neurotransmitters.
In order to determine ...
... towards high levels of social and economic development. The researchers question the conventional wisdom by documenting new findings, potentially relevant to discussions of economic and social policy ...
... in adult human
mouths, and thus require yanking. But every other toothed mammal
has room for their “wisdom teeth,” and so did Neanderthals and
other early hominids, says evolutionary biologist Leslea ...
... at new cognitive tasks and in new situations. The finding flies in the face of conventional wisdom in psychology that training for one brain task cannot be transferred to improvement in other mental ...
... activities but ate a less-healthy diet than did girls. Moreover – and contrary to established wisdom in the field –researchers found that people with “healthier” BMI values were no more likely to be ...
... University researcher has published a paper that calls into question three decades of conventional wisdom regarding some of the physical processes that helped shape the Earth as we know it today. ...
... of Capital Punishment,” will be published in the Houston Law Review this fall. “Conventional wisdom holds that the race of the victim is pivotal,” Phillips says. “But, current research suggests that ...
Popular wisdom says that aircraft provide the perfect environment for spreading disease, but few studies exist to confirm or deny this suspicion. Now, a team of researchers has measured concentrations ...
Conventional wisdom holds that the standardized tests some employers require of job applicants serve as a barrier to equal employment. But a pioneering study shows just the opposite: Screening ...
... nothing to do with whether the kids in the pictures were wearing glasses and which supported conventional wisdom about kids’ opinions. Both boys and girls said they thought that boys appeared to be ...
... to what scientists previously thought would be required to affect a planet's geodynamics."
Conventional wisdom holds that plate tectonics is both stable and self-correcting, but that view relies on ...
There exists much ethical controversy brought about by advances in biology and medicine and the relationship to religion. In a new essay in The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, Laurie Zoloth takes ...
