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Must Insurers Cover Adult Children Never Before on a Parent's Plan?
As long as the plan covers dependents and the adult child can't get coverage through his own job, the new health care law requires that the insurer allow him to...
Reading the look of love
How fast you can judge whether a person of the opposite sex is looking at you depends on how masculine or feminine they look, according to a new study. The...
Science Of Soccer Balls - Houston, We Have A Drag Crisis
It's World Cup time and that means sports fans worldwide are focused on important issues, like complaining about vuvuzelas and this year's soccer ball, the Jabulani, which will push fan...
Video: Al Gore Sex Scandal Goes Virtual
Noted for a previous recreation of the Tiger Woods sex scandal, a Taiwanese production company is at it again, this time with Al Gore. Gary Hamilton reports.
US Supreme Court avoids clarifying patent stance
A highly anticipated case yields disappointingly vague results.
Weight and children with developmental coordination disorder
Children with developmental coordination disorder are at greater risk of being overweight or obese, according to a new study.
Studies of women's attitudes to 'social egg freezing' find reasons differ with age
Women of different ages differ in their reasons for wishing to undergo egg freezing, show two studies presented to the 26th annual meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction...
The image in the mirror and the number on the scale both count
Adolescent girls who think they are overweight, but are not, are at more risk for depression than girls who are overweight and know it, according to Penn State sociologists...
Memories are made of this
New research led by the University of Leicester and published in a prestigious international scientific journal has revealed for the first time the mechanism by which memories are formed.
Virus 'explorers' probe inner workings of the brain
Imagine an exceedingly complex circuit board. Wires often split -- seemingly at random -- and connect in strange and unexpected ways.
Men: When You Compete Are You A Bonobo Or A Chimp?
Men will sometimes blame hormones for how women act but it isn't just one gender - one thing that sets off hormone changes in men is competition, says a new...
Rice-run poll: Houstonians favor term limits for elected officials, but willing to modify them
(PhysOrg.com) -- Houstonians support term limits for the city's elected officials, but are willing to change the length of those limits, according to a new poll conducted by Rice University...
Nature's wrath in 2009 tallied by country
Asia took the brunt of natural disasters in 2009, experiencing more than 40 percent of Mother Nature's havoc, with the Americas coming in second, according to a new report. ...
9 in 10 docs blame lawsuit fears for overtesting
9 in 10 docs blame lawsuit fears for overtesting By LINDSEY TANNER 2010-06-28T20:10:22Z CHICAGO (AP) --...
Scientists reveal dolphins' diplomatic social behaviour
Scientists from the Bottlenose Dolphin Research Institute (BDRI) on the island of Sardinia off the coast of Italy have published the most complete repertoire ever of sounds made by bottlenose...
Internet dependence and gambling addiction are not linked
A study of university students found no overlap between those reporting excessive Internet use and those with problem gambling. However, both addictive behaviors are associated with psychological issues such as...
Scientist Turned in by Grad Students for Misconduct Pleads Guilty
Four years after a group of graduate students faced the agonizing experience of turning...
Piglets open doors to study infant brain development
URBANA — Events occurring during the development of an infant’s brain can leave behind fingerprints. And researchers at the University of Illinois are interested in learning how these...
Impromptu Simon Jenkins spoof rallies the defenders of science
The latest attack on science from Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins has sparked an unconventional and often hilarious reaction, writes physicist Jon ButterworthWell, wow. Ever rolled a little snowball for fun and seen an...
Study finds health insurance inequities for same-sex couples
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers found that men and women in same-sex relationships in California are far less likely than their married heterosexual counterparts to get employer-sponsored dependent health insurance.
Fund aims to turn African science ideas into business
African micro-entrepreneurs need help turning scientists' ideas into action, say the launchers of a fund that seeks to help them.
Recipes for Health: Carrot Gratin With Béchamel
How to get more carrots into your diet? Here’s a wonderfully simple answer.
Cellphone Crime Solvers
Inside a cellphone clutched in a murder victim's hand may be the clues that lead to her killer.
Supreme Court extends 2nd Amendment protection to state, local levels
The court's 5-4 decision comes in a case involving Chicago's ban on handguns. ...
Reports: Jennifer Capriati hospitalized because of possible drug overdose
According to TMZ, and also reported by the London newspaper the Mail, former tennis star Jennifer Capriati, 34, is in a Florida hospital after a possible drug overdose.
Woman accused of beating, starving and tying up her children is to be arraigned
A woman accused of beating, starving and tying up her two small children so that she could sleep better at night is scheduled to be arranged in an Orange County...
Relativistic interpertation of Casimir effect Expanded
A relativistic interpretation of Casimir effect could help explain the numerous claims of abnormal states of hydrogen and deuterium by researchers around the world without mention of Zero Point...
Students face deportation to countries they don't remember
Thousands of young illegal immigrants were brought to the U.S. as children and have gone on to college. Proposed legislation would grant them legal status, even as more of them face removal....