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Father's Day at 100: How It Began, Why Dad Gets Fewer Gifts
With Father's Day 2010 here, find out why it's no Hallmark holiday, why Dad doesn't mind being shortchanged on gifts, and more. ...
Study: Why Women Are More Sensitive to Stress
Women may be more prone to psychiatric disorders such as depression due to differences in how their brain responses to certain hormones, a new study suggests.
Sexual trauma may spark mental health problems
Traumatic sexual incidents may cause serious mental health problems in the years after the events, new research has shown. Using a unique investigative method, researchers examined the mental health of...
Crayfish Brain May Offer Rare Insight into Human Decision Making
Crayfish make surprisingly complex, cost-benefit choices, finds a University of Maryland study -opening up a new line of research to help unravel the cellular brain activity involved in human decisions....
Mutations on three genes could predispose people to suicidal behaviour
Three genes that have barely been studied to date have now provided fresh knowledge about patients with suicidal backgrounds. Scientists found that several mutations are involved. This finding could help...
Emory study shows babies grasp number, space and time concepts
Even before they learn to speak, babies are organising information about numbers, space and time in more complex ways than previously realised, a study led by Emory University psychologist Stella...
UCLA scientists teach cultured brain cells to keep time
The ability to tell time is fundamental to how humans interact with each other and the world. Timing plays an important role, for example, in our ability to recognise speech...
Paediatricians can help parents recognise overweight preschoolers
Parents are more likely to underestimate their preschool children's weight when paediatricians do not tell them their children are overweight or gaining weight too fast, a study by the University...
Experience shapes the brain's circuitry throughout adulthood
The adult brain, long considered to be fixed in its wiring, is in fact remarkably dynamic. Neuroscientists once thought that the brain's wiring was fixed early in life, during a critical period beyond...
Debating Dawn's Drop in the Bucket
Procter & Gamble is calling attention to the use of Dawn, its dishwashing detergent, to clean oil-soaked birds in the gulf. While some see this as simply a marketing opportunity,...
Sex, drugs and moral goals: Penn study of reproductive strategies and recreational drug use
Why is there so much disagreement about whether using recreational drugs is morally wrong? A University of Pennsylvania psychology study shows that the debate about drugs might really be about...
Unesco Delays Decision on Prize Financed by Infamous Dictator
The international prize for Research in the Life Sciences has been widely criticized for being financed by President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo of Equatorial Guinea.
Email wishes set up for Regina hospitals
The Regina Qu'Appelle Health Region has developed a system to allow people to send "get well" messages electronically to friends and family members who are in hospital.
High expectations for Brazilian science
President Lula Da Silva leaves government with an investment of 1.43 per cent of GDP in R&D and a promising future for Brazilian science.
University rectors call for measures to curb brain drain
One thousand heads of Ibero-American universities have called on their governments to increase investment in science and halt the brain drain.
ScienceShot: How Strong Is a Man? Listen to His Voice
Humans can gauge a man's strength from the way he talks
Photos: Human Sacrifices Found at Ancient China Complex
How better to say "bless this house" than by sacrificing horse or human? A new dig in China sheds light on the ancient practice's beginnings. ...
New testimony sheds light on Mahony's role in notorious priest abuse case
Testimony by Cardinal Roger Mahony made public Tuesday gives the clearest account to date of how he handled the notorious case of Father Michael Baker, who is serving a 10-year...
To plan or not to plan is not the right question
(PhysOrg.com) -- New research from the Bettany Centre for Entrepreneurial Performance & Economics at Cranfield School of Management and the Centre for SMEs at Warwick Business School has revealed that...
Insomniacs have different brains, researcher says
The brains of older adults with chronic sleep problems look different from those of adults who have enjoyed enough sleep. Yet the older adults function well despite their lack of...
Working parents no longer have to do it tough
(PhysOrg.com) -- Many parents find balancing work and family tough but now help is available. Research from The University of Queensland has found parents who complete a parenting program targeted...
Speech Synthesizer Helps Movie Critic
The voices you hear on message services are often created artificially by fitting together short audio snippets from a large library of vocalized words and sounds. Scientists are now moving...
Charges filed in 1983 sexual assault, slaying of 8-year-old girl
The Los Angeles Police Department on Tuesday announced that detectives had issued an arrest warrant in the 1983 abduction and slaying of an 8-year-old girl in Watts.
Pill swallowing tip helps children
A simple change in how children position their heads when swallowing pills can make it easier for the medicine to go down, researchers in Calgary have found.
Faster employees may indirectly motivate colleagues to increase production
You wouldn't think that there would be much similarity between a hockey line and an automobile assembly line. However, University of Alberta management-science researcher Ken Schultz says that both groups...
IU professor's new textbook uses the best science writing from the New York Times
For decades, The New York Times has been one of the nation's premier outlets for stories about science. Now, a retired Indiana University journalism professor has put many of those...
Study of Dominant-Looking Men Yields Surprising Result
Something in the faces of brown-eyed white men makes them appear more dominant than their blue-eyed peers.
Net media are increasingly strong
University of Gothenburg, Sweden, conducts a yearly survey of Swedes' media use called Mediebarometern, which started in 1979. The results for the 2009 survey are now complete and show that...