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Rabble with a Cause: Were the London Riots a Spontaneous Mass Reaction or a Rational Response?
The deadly mob violence that wracked England this past week has abated, as police came out in force and used surveillance images to track down and arrest some 1,900...
Chimp’s Victim Gets a New Face
The face of Charla Nash, ripped off by a 200-pound chimpanzee two years ago, has undergone a startling transformation.
Well Blog: How Tanning Changes the Brain
People who frequently use tanning beds experience changes in brain activity during their tanning sessions that mimic the patterns of drug addiction, new research shows.
Call for mental health needs of child refugees to be met
Prolonged and bureaucratic asylum processes in the West are having negative effects on childrens mental health, according to Oxford University psychiatrists and colleagues.
Plants and fungi recognize generous trading partners
Rewards for rewards stabilize underground biological market
Regulation of attention and concentration in brain unravelled
(Medical Xpress) -- The prefrontal cortex of the brain is involved in memory processes and the ability to concentrate attentively. Neuroscientists from VU University Amsterdam have shown how and where...
Islam Analysis: Give science a social contract
Ambitious plans for a 'desert development corridor' in Egypt could provide a concrete example of the social value of science, says Athar Osama.
Like humans, chimps are born with immature forebrains
In both chimpanzees and humans, portions of the brain that are critical for complex cognitive functions, including decision-making, self-awareness and creativity, are immature at birth. But there are important differences,...
Coke addicts prefer money in hand to snowy future
When a research team asked cocaine addicts to choose, hypothetically, between money now or cocaine of greater value later, "preference was almost exclusively for the money now," said Warren K.,...
Video: Social media law causing a stir among teachers
A controversial new law in Missouri aimed at preventing sexual abuse in schools bans educators from having private online communications with students. CBS News correspondent Karen Brown reports.
Some families have taken steps to avoid feeling overwhelmed by communications technologies, study shows
An international study, led by Anna Mieczakowski, Tanya Goldhaber and Professor John Clarkson at the Engineering Design Centre (EDC) here at the Department of Engineering, has found that one in...
Coping with back-to-school anxiety
Many children feel nervous about going to school for the first time or returning to school after a summer off. Here are tips for kids and parents on...
When you can recite a poem but not remember who asked you to learn it a few days earlier
Memory is not a single process but is made up of several sub-processes relying on different areas of the brain. Episodic memory, the ability to remember specific events such as...
Gallery: DARPA's Falcon Hypersonic Glider's Mach 20 Launch Test
See illustrations and photos from DARPA's HTV-2 Falcon hypersonic glider tests.
Low vitamin D linked to earlier first menstruation
A study links low vitamin D in young girls with early menstruation, which is a risk factor for a host of health problems for teen girls as well as women...
A look at Roku's new line of digital media players
Getting video from the Internet to your TV used to be a difficult, costly procedure. That's no longer the case.
The illusion of attention
Focused attention can make you oblivious to sights and sounds that would otherwise be glaringly obviousYou board the train, find a seat and open the latest bestseller by your favourite author. The couple...
Video: New forensic fingerprinting approach retrieves elusive prints
Forensics experts can't always retrieve fingerprints from objects, but a new coating process developed by Penn State professors may change that.
The Jurassic coastline of Lyme Regis – in pictures
Guardian photographer Graeme Robertson travels to Lyme Regis in Dorset to photograph the Jurassic coastGraeme Robertson
Sapolsky on Dopamine: Not about pleasure, but anticipation [video] | GrrlScientist
According to Robert Sapolsky, the difference between humans and monkeys: "There's no monkey out there willing to lever press because St Peter is down the line"Last week, I mentioned that language might be...
Why Einstein Could Not Solve The EPR Paradox Though He Could Have
Usually, the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox is presented as if it potentially conflicts with the theory of relativity. This is because the correlation between Alice’s and Bob’s measurements seems to travel with...
Study: Light as well as dark can up fear
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Aug. 10 (UPI) -- Biologists and psychologists have long known that light affects mood but a U.S. study indicates light may also play a role in modulating...
App Smart: Curl Up With a Soothing Smartphone and Relax
Phones can cause their own kind of stress, but there are several apps to help you calm down and even get to sleep.
Op-Ed Contributor: Stop Using Chimps as Guinea Pigs
Experiments involving great apes do not make sense scientifically, financially or ethically.
OPINION: Twelve going on 20: are girls reaching puberty earlier?
The authors explain why girls are reaching puberty earlier and the possible impact of this phenomenon.
The classroom, circa 2050
Performer Michael Jackson may be a legend, but if some local high school students had their way, he’d be the namesake behind a futuristic school — Michael Jackson High School. Like the...
10 years later, NY responders communicate better
(AP) -- On Sept. 11, 2001, as firefighters rushed into the smoldering twin towers, their radios went dead. Police on the scene couldn't hear orders from their superiors. And...
Study finds new ADHD genes, links susceptibility with autism and other neuropsychiatric conditions
New research has identified more genes in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and shows that there is an overlap between some of these genes and those found in other neuropsychiatric...