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Report explains declining school performance in Sweden
Housing segregation, making schooling a community matter, special teaching groups, individualisation and the right to freely choose which school to attend are factors explaining why Swedish school children perform worse...
Electromagnetic field studies reach different conclusions
Some studies say a link between EMFs and health issues is possible, others don't. And scientists interpret the data differently. How could respectable scientists armed with the same data on electromagnetic fields end...
Science paper trade booms in China
The pressure to publish research in China has fuelled a five-fold increase in its scientific paper trade, new research shows.
Infants With Flat Head Syndrome At Risk For Developmental Delay - Study
Infants averaging six months of age who exhibited positional plagiocephaly (flat head syndrome) had lower scores than typical infants in observational tests used to evaluate cognitive and motor development, according...
Israel discovers large Byzantine-era wine press
Israeli archaeologists said Monday that they've discovered an unusually shaped 1,400-year-old wine press that was exceptionally large and advanced for its time. Israel - Byzantine Empire...
Bright, clean rooms promote good behaviour
The smell of citrus promotes generosity, while dim rooms increase dishonesty and selfish behaviour, psychological researchers suggest in recent studies.
Accidents of birth and trigger-happy pups
How rare is it really for three siblings to be born on the same date?Often one data point isn't enough to spot a pattern, or even to say that an event is...
Sauerkraut as a remedy for canker sores
Q: If I feel a canker sore coming on, I put a wad of chopped sauerkraut on the area, hold it there for a minute, then chew and swallow. I...
Quitting smoking especially difficult for select groups
With the national trend toward quitting smoking flat, psychologists are finding some success with treatments aimed at helping smokers from under-served groups, including racial and ethnic minorities and those with...
My Bummy Valentine
It’s Valentine Day, and children everywhere celebrated friendship and love by giving cards and candy to their friends. In what alien observers must consider one of the most bizarre human...
Feature: Boost for dementia research
Increased funding for research and education are bringing knowledge about dementia into the foreground of the Australian aged health agenda.
Constraints On The Higgs Mass From The Muon Anomaly
One of the positive side-effects of preparing a seminar is being forced to get up-to-date with the latest experimental and theoretical developments on the topic. And this is of particular...
Childhood Obesity Takes Psychological Toll, Too
Childhood obesity is linked with all sorts of health problems, but the psychological ones can be just as debilitating.
UK lawmaker fired for anti-Israel comments
LONDON (AP) -- A British lawmaker has been fired from her job as her party's health spokeswoman after she said that there should be a probe...
Wool growers getting older
The average age of wool-growers keeps rising, according to a recent study – the culture is changing, and children rarely stay on the farm.
Formula pops the question
Statisticians have created a formula that suggests when men should propose marriage – mostly as a joke, but it may actually work.
The Pragma Hypothesis
The Pragma Hypothesis A speculation on the possibility of the accurate prediction of future, hind-sight based, historical worldviews, and the application of such prediction to the current climate change debate. Pragma -...
People with anxiety disorder less able to regulate response to negative emotions
People with generalised anxiety disorder, or GAD, have abnormalities in the way their brain unconsciously controls emotions. That's the conclusion of a new Stanford University School of Medicine study, and...
What to do with a degree in: Psychology
Psychotherapy, counselling, advertising, marketing, retail … the list of careers open to psychology graduates is mind-bogglingWhat do actor Katharine Hepburn (right), Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner and serial killer Ted Bundy all have...
The Best of This Week in the Future
Our prolific future-reviewer Baarbarian has been illustrating our fevered future dreams into reality for several months now--creating a closet-full of fine T-shirts in his wake. This week he's taking a...
Do Technology and Romance Mix?
This Valentines Day, technology will allow couples to express their feelings for each other in more ways than ever before – but that's not necessarily a good thing.
Monkey Business
Most of us can understand how we feel if someone else gets a better reward for doing the exact same work we did. Researchers are studying how these feelings...
Love gets stronger with age: Canadian researchers
Older couples are more in love than most and continue to have satisfying sex lives, despite some physiological hurdles, according to Canadian researchers.
Older workers do not necessarily perform worse
Do older staff members earn more than they deserve? Dutch research carried out into productivity and incomes among older workers by labour economist Jan van Ours (Tilburg University) shows that...
Justice wants cell-phone locations without warrant
(AP) -- Should the government be able to track your movements based on cell-phone records, without evidence of criminal wrongdoing?
Backing grows for African research chairs
Leading organisations have expressed support for a scheme to fund 1,000 senior research positions in Africa's universities.
Bonobos Show Sharing's Not Exclusive To The Human Experience
It appears that the act of voluntarily sharing something with another is not entirely exclusive to the human experience. Researchers writing in Current Biology observe that bonobos—a sister species of...
A Mission Statement for Science Educators
The American Society of Agronomy announces the publishing of "Perspectives in Science Education" by Martin Druger. A professor emeritus at Syracuse University, Druger spent 55 years teaching science, primarily...