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What are the Benefits of Social Networks?
What are the benefits of social networks? Boston College Professor Jerry Kane has received an National Science Foundation career award to study the use of social media technology in the...
On immigration, it's up to Washington
Laws such as Arizona's new statute show the need for comprehensive reform at the federal level. ...
Wash Your Hands To Eliminate Buyer's Remorse?
Washing your hands can cleanse you of past immoral behavior, it can also eliminate traces of buyer's remorse by reducing the need to justify past decisions, say psychologist writing in...
Video: Seeking Single, White, Mac-Lovin' Female
Microsoft Kin phones are arriving, Skype offers multi-person chat, and how to find love in the cruel world of Apple fandom.
Statistcal Physics Offers Insight Into Moral Behavior
(PhysOrg.com) -- It seems a little strange for statistical physicists to consider questions of morality in behavior. However, that is is just what a study at ETH in Zurich, Switzeralnd,...
Rice team talks the walk
Walk this way and a camera-carrying robot will follow. That sounds simple until you get into the details...
First course of veggies may appeal to hungry preschoolers
Increasing the amount of vegetables in the first course of preschool lunch could be a smart way to get children to eat more vegetables, according to Penn State nutrition researchers...
Friendship and confiding in spouse eases stress over sexual issues in older men
A new study suggests that it may not help older men and women with sexual problems to talk to a doctor, but men who talk to their partner report greater...
Men's health policy launched
The first National Men's Health Policy has been launched, promising new research into men's health problems.
No simple explanation for why adolescents take risks: Study shows weak executive cognitive function not always to blame
Conventional wisdom holds that adolescents are susceptible to drug use and other risk-taking behavior. However, a one-size-fits-all approach to curbing these behaviors likely will be unsuccessful, according to new research.
The campaign against David Southall
A look at the controversial paediatrician's many battlesIn the late 1980s, David Southall was feted by his peers for proving, with the help of hidden video cameras, the almost inconceivable – that mothers...
Easing Those Travel Aches Through Yoga
If you’ve missed a connection or experience other travel-related stress, yoga can restore calm.
It was the text message of their lives
In typical teenage fashion, Mike Yepremyan sent his girlfriend a text insulting one of her friends. No one realized it would leave two families and a circle of friends devastated. ...
Finding the recipe for success in partnerships
(PhysOrg.com) -- Like a successful marriage, winning partnerships between profit and non-profit organizations require balancing the give and take and considering the needs of your counterpart.
Mothers' Depression Can Go Well Beyond Child's Infancy
Vast amounts of research on postpartum depression have focused on difficulties facing new mothers, and studies of adult depression have focused on individual struggles. Depression in mothers with...
NIH Starts to Flesh Out Drug Development Program
Lawmakers today began discussing the details of a newly created drug development program at...
Strategies for eating out, managing weight differ by gender
(PhysOrg.com) -- When eating out, women more often use weight management strategies -- such as ordering salad dressing on the side and having half of the meal packaged to go...
Police: Charge 3 Brazilian priests with abuse
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- Police in northeastern Brazil are recommending that three Roman Catholic priests be formally charged with sexually abusing boys....
Suborbital Rocket Launches With Student Experiments, Human Ashes Onboard
A small rocket carrying student experiments and the cremated remains of 21 people launched on a memorial suborbital spaceflight.
NBC employee among winners of $266-million California lottery
An employee for NBC is one of the holders of a $266-million lottery ticket purchased in Pico Rivera, according to KNBC News.
David Southall: 'I will not apologise for what I did'
The controversial paediatrician this week won his appeal to be reinstated by the General Medical Council following a long series of battles over alleged misconduct. How does he now feel?John Hemming, the Lib...
Benefits matter in agriculture job displacement
Common sense suggests that workers without unemployment insurance will often grab the first job that comes their way, even if the new job is low-paying or not a good career...
Aussie comedian sacked over tweets
Australian comedian Catherine Deveny has been sacked as a columnist for Melbourne's Age newspaper after a series of Twitter comments that readers found offensive.
Will the Bill Decrease Overtreatment?
The legislation provides support for demonstration projects intended to test ways of paying for bundled health care services.
World view: Brick by brick
A small non-profit organization shows how to reduce the vulnerability of poor countries to earthquakes, says Daniel Sarewitz.
Magazine Preview: Moral Life of Babies
Can they really tell right from wrong? What researchers are cooing about.
N.L. MDs reject latest contract offer
The association representing doctors in Newfoundland and Labrador has rejected the latest contract offer from the provincial government.
Intelligent design is an oxymoron
Intelligent Design theory is a mountain of waffle resting on analogy. Neither scientists nor believers should touch itThe question: Is intelligent design bad theology?At the heart of Steve Fuller's defence of Intelligent Design...