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Losing weight not always a positive
Encouraging the obese to lose weight may not always be beneficial for their wellbeing reports a paper published online in the International Journal of Obesity.
Playboys have shorter lives
Males who are focused on pursuing sexual partners usually have stunted growth and die young as they neglect other essential needs.
A conversation with Stephen Hawking, aged five years old | Mark Vernon
If Stephen Hawking was a boy again, what questions would he ask, and what would be the answer?Imagine Stephen Hawking is reincarnated, and this time round his father is a philosopher. One day,...
Verbal snippets offer insights on well-being amid separation, divorce
A new study from the University of Arizona shows that people in the midst of a divorce typically reveal how they are handling things - not so much by what...
Non-invasive therapy significantly improves depression, UCLA researchers say
Major depression is a common and disabling brain condition marked not only by the presence of depressed mood but also by its effects on sleep, energy, decision-making, memory and thoughts...
Podcast: Early Feasts, Mama's Boys, and an 'Impossible' Soccer Goal
Listen to a roundup of some of our favorite stories from this week
Wanted: Flexible Astronaut, Works Well With Others
Mars500 project should reveal how six men physically and psychologically cope in long missions.
DVDs don’t turn toddlers into vocabulary Einsteins
But some parents mistakenly think kids do learn words from watching these popular programs
Close social networks influence health habits
People adopting new health practices are more likely to be influenced by close connections, including people they know well, than by social networks such as Facebook, research suggests.
U.A.E. calls BlackBerry a spy tool
Worries about spying by the U.S. and Israel spurred plans to sharply limit BlackBerry services in the United Arab Emirates, Dubai's police chief said in comments that suggest a tough...
Interview: Enthusiastic fantastic
Helma Wennemers is known for her contagious enthusiasm for science. Joanne Thomson gets infected
Labor Day Is No Vacation for a Growing Number of Workers
Hourly employees might not have that luxury of relaxing on labor day.
Borderland Russians
A new study looks at how living close to the border affects people, and whether borderland people are different from other people. The case in point is the Russians on...
Low grades in adolescence linked to dopamine genes
The academic performance of adolescents will suffer in at least one of four key subjects - English, math, science, history - if their DNA contains one or more of three...
Asimo the Robot Makes New Friends in Austria
Researchers Seek Feedback from Technology Fair Visitors to Help Make Honda's Battery-Operated Robot More Communicative
K-State research project offers insight into superstitious behaviour
People who believe that fate and chance control their lives are more likely to be superstitious - but when faced with death they are likely to abandon superstition altogether, according...
Science's policy clout diminished, but oil risk looms large
More people are likely to believe scientific studies claiming that oil drilling is riskier, not safer, than was previously thought, according to a new study of attitudes in California. What's...
Study finds students in standalone middle schools lag behind K-8 peers
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study that analyzes a decade of achievement data from New York City public schools reveals that the trajectories of math and English performance among students at...
Stress management with Chilean miners is tricky
A psychologist and stress expert at the University at Buffalo says research on traumatic experiences pinpoints specific sources of stress that the trapped Chilean miners and their rescuers will need...
Green revolution comes to urban neighborhoods
Low-income can also be environmentally friendly, with a little help.Kendrick Harris, a high school dropout who has been homeless and jobless, has had more pressing things to worry about than...
The Golden Rules Of Error Analysis
Giving any measurement value together with some educated guess on its accuracy or precision, is scientific standard praxis. I do not want to explain why here, but it is very...
Will Neuromarketing Save Print? New Scientist Has 12% Increase In Sales For Issue With NeuroFocus Cover
If you're a print magazine, or in marketing consumer goods, you care about packaging. The general science magazine "New Scientist" approached neuroscience marketing firm NeuroFocus to test three different cover designs...
Srinagar Journal: A Kashmir Hospital Is Witness to Conflict
Just getting to work is an ordeal for staff members, who have also had to face chanting protesters in their emergency room.
Computer technique could help partially sighted 'see' better
Thousands of people who are partially sighted following stroke or brain injury could gain greater independence from a simple, cheap and accessible training course which could eventually be delivered from...
In praise of … God | Editorial
The universe just ramped itself up. Simple. And yet doubts remain - spontaneous creation is, for most folk, just a contradiction in terms"Dear Sir: Your astonishment's odd; / I am always about...
Sask. schools grapple with Facebook
With students across Saskatchewan returning to school, teachers are divided about whether popular social networks like Facebook have a place in the classroom.
Chief rabbi challenges Stephen Hawking in row over origins of universe
Lord Sacks accuses astrophysicist of logical fallacy in book excluding possibility of supernatural creationThe chief rabbi, Lord Sacks, hit back at Stephen Hawking after the astrophysicist said God did not create the universe.In...
Acting selfish? Blame your mother
(PhysOrg.com) -- The fact that our female ancestors dispersed more than our male ancestors can lead to conflicts within the brain that influence our social behaviour, new research reveals.