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Cultural Evolution Continues Throughout Life, Mathematical Models Suggest
By successively acquiring culture in the form of values, ideas, and actions throughout their lives, humans influence future learning and the capacity for cultural evolution. The number of learning opportunities...
Light Shed On Brain's Mechanism Responsible For Processing Of Speech
Researchers have succeeded for the first time in devising a model that describes and identifies a basic cellular mechanism that enables networks of neurons to efficiently decode speech in changing...
Sleep Patterns In Children And Teenagers Could Indicate Risk For Depression
Sleep patterns can help predict which adolescents might be at greatest risk for developing depression, a researcher has found in a five-year study.
Parental Influences Differ In Determing Child's Later Academic Success
Mothers and fathers play different roles and make different contributions to a child's upbringing, but a father's influence upon a child's academic success later in life is felt the most...
Coordination needed to support green-fingered youths
The project, which was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), found that many young volunteers travelled long distances from cities to short-term projects in rural areas and...
Human Mind: Sound And Vision Wired Through Same 'Black Box'
Sounds and images share a similar neural code in the human brain, according to a new Canadian study. Scientists explain how the same neural code in the brain allows people...
Obama presents presidential medal of freedom to Stephen Hawking
Winners including scientist Stephen Hawking received honours during ceremony at the White House
The negative health effects of perceived discrimination
Discrimination has undoubtedly been the cause of suffering for many throughout human history. There have been countless reviews investigating the effects of discrimination on health, but none that have quite...
Dig Out the Spandex and Feel the Burn
At a Los Angeles dance class, the dress code (think Jane Fonda) is as intense as the workout.
For Lawmakers, Health-Plan Anger Keeps Coming
Lawmakers have run into fresh anger as they field questions from constituents worried about changes in health care and many other things in government.
Obama Injects Himself Into Health Talks, Despite Risks
President Obama has presented himself as aloof from the legislative fray, but behind the scenes, the White House has negotiated deals potentially at odds with his rhetoric.
Jam-packed crowds press Grassley on health care
PANORA, Iowa (AP) -- Sen. Charles Grassley, a Republican who is a key bargainer on health care reform, played to packed crowds across the state who...
Female Supervisors More Susceptible To Workplace Sexual Harassment
Women who hold supervisory positions are more likely to be sexually harassed at work, according to the first-ever, large-scale longitudinal study to examine workplace power, gender and sexual harassment.
Worth the effort? Not if you're depressed
New research indicates that decreased cravings for pleasure may be at the root of a core symptom of major depressive disorder. The research is in contrast to the long-held notion...
Brain doesn’t sort by visual cues alone
Blind and sighted subjects sort the living from the nonliving in the same way
The relationship between a leftward bias and negative emotional recognition
There appears to be a growing body of evidence supporting the relationship between space and emotion.
Microsofties' side project seeks new Office ideas
(AP) -- Have a gripe about Office? A couple of guys at Microsoft Corp. want to hear it directly.
PR pros are good ethical thinkers, study finds
For years journalists and others have questioned the ethics of public relations practitioners and firms. People in PR, however, appear to be getting a bad rap. That's what...
Scottish drug-related death rate growing
EDINBURGH, Scotland, Aug. 12 (UPI) -- The number of deaths due to drug abuse in Scotland rose from 455 in 2007 to 574 in 2008, General Register Office for...
Review: Password management eases with Net storage
(AP) -- Do you use your kids' names? Your pet's? Your favorite color? We all use some dumb passwords that are too easy to guess.
A window into the brain
When we absorb new information, the human brain reshapes itself to store this newfound knowledge. But where exactly is the new knowledge kept, and how does that capacity to adapt...
Why MSG allergy is fake science
Our failure to differentiate between quackery and hard science has perpetuated the Chinese restaurant syndrome myth
Sex, videos, friends, games hot with kids online: Norton
Children are searching online for videos, social networks, games and, yes, porn as they grow up in an Internet Age, according to computer security firm Symantec.
Students Recall More Hollywood than History
A new study shows that students remember Hollywood fiction versus historical fact.
Reasons to be cheerful: Study gives happiness techniques thumbs up
Mass participation experiment suggests that simple strategies for boosting mood – such as smiling and thinking about something good that happened yesterday – may actually work
The appliance of science? The questions that baffle parents
Four in five parents in the UK have been stumped by a science question posed by their children, a survey suggests.
Mark Rosenzweig, Brain Researcher, Is Dead at 86
Dr. Rosenzweig proved that the rodent brain reshapes itself in response to experience, even into adulthood.
Video: Fast Draw: Money and Pain
Money makes people feel good when they have it, but when they don't, it's not so good. Researchers have said what's in your wallet has a huge effect on how...