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Top doctor backs BMA's call to ban alcohol advertising
The BMA's call to ban alcohol advertising because of its damaging effects on young people is 'a logical recommendation to attempt to reverse the all embracing pro-alcohol culture that has...
Alzheimer's art creates lasting memories
Nine paintings created through an Alzheimer's Association program called Memories in the Making are on display at UCI MIND.
Organic Weed Control For Dandelions
Spring and summer often find homeowners out in their yards, busily attempting to control the onslaught of dandelions in a quest for green, weed-free lawns. Responding to criticism that synthetic...
Work conditions impact parents' food choices
Since most parents in the US are employed, there are competing demands on their time that can compromise food choices for themselves and their children. How parents cope with these...
Why 09/09/09 Is So Special
Everyone from brides and grooms to movie studio execs are celebrating the upcoming calendrical anomaly in their own way.
Contraband cigarettes popular with teens
Teenagers are smoking a surprising amount of contraband cigarettes, which is undermining tobacco-prevention strategies, according to a new study.
Sticky mittens may help learn
Researchers are finding that babies given velcro mittens behave differently after – grabbing objects and watching people more.
Research Investigates Rebuilding Identity When Communication Is Impaired
What happens to a person`s identity when a stroke or a disease profoundly impairs the ability to communicate? In Neurogenic Communication Disorders: Life Stories and the Narrative Self, University of...
Brain defect implicated in early schizophrenia
In the first functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study of its kind, neurologists and psychiatrists at Columbia University have identified an area of the brain involved in the earliest stages...
Healthy older brains not significantly smaller than younger brains
The belief that healthy older brains are substantially smaller than younger brains may stem from studies that did not screen out people whose undetected, slowly developing brain disease was killing...
Science in schools 'remains elitist'
Boring lessons, geeky stereotypes and poor careers advice have turned many pupils off science. That has to change, says science minister Lord Drayson, as a new children's science education centre opens in London
Maldives to miss climate summit
The president of the Maldives says he will not go to key climate talks in Copenhagen in December unless someone else pays.
Scientist: Human brain could be replicated in 10 years
A model that replicates the functions of the human brain is feasible in 10 years according to neuroscientist Professor Henry Markram of the Brain Mind Institute in Switzerland. ‘I absolutely...
Scientist at Work: Chuck Savitt: Environmental Ideas Put in Print With Select Audiences in Mind
A niche publisher aims to spread knowledge, and faces challenges.
In Taming Dogs, Humans May Have Sought a Meal
A DNA study suggests a single domestication event in China, as well as a reason behind it.
Recipes for Health: Lunches for Picky Children
The school year returns, and with it a perpetual conundrum: what to pack in that lunchbox.
Women judge, but do they convict?
Researchers say the current "honesty test" should be reviewed after discovering big differences in judging what makes a dishonest act.
Study: Men Losing Their Minds Over Women
(PhysOrg.com) -- Research reported in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology has shown that men go ga-ga over pretty women. They simply lose their minds (while women keep theirs).
Obama gets conflicting tips on health care speech
(AP) -- President Barack Obama is getting no shortage of advice on what to say in his health care speech to Congress, and much of it conflicts.
Fallout from nuclear tests leads to health crisis
(AP) -- Pius Henry fears his adopted government will kill him, that the United States won't live up to a health care obligation to people from Pacific islands where...
Beatboxing and the Pestival
Dan Stowell, a computer scientist at Queen Mary University of London, demonstrates his research in which he digitally transforms the human voice in real-time to create weird musical instruments and interactive experiences. He...
Honesty not best policy, survey of public attitudes suggests
Hang your head in shame. A major survey of public attitudes towards dishonesty has revealed a nation dominated by chancers, cheats and petty thieves.
Recession? What recession? Unionization up on state, local levels
Against all odds, organized labor managed to make new inroads during the economic upheaval of the past year, new findings from UCLA's Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE)...
Why Cry? Evolutionary Biologists Show Crying Can Strengthen Relationships
Medically, crying is known to be a symptom of physical pain or stress. But now an evolutionary biologist looks to empirical evidence showing that tears have emotional benefits and can...
New Family Care Model Aids At-Risk Families
Many families struggle on a day-to-day basis with insufficient in-home care or problematic out-of-home care for their emotionally or behaviorally troubled children and adolescents. Researchers have recently shown that an...
That Late-night Snack: Worse Than You Think
Eat less, exercise more. Now there is new evidence to support adding another "must" to the weight-loss mantra: eat at the right time of day. A study has found that...
Autism and anorexia: what’s the relationship?
Until recently, I admired the autism parent community from afar. Like the parents who awakened and changed the schizophrenia treatment world, parents of autistic children have moved both treatment and...
Christian couples staying faithful online
(AP) -- Lance Maggiacomo was out of work, bored and lonely when he started hiding his online relationships from his wife.There was no affair, only chatting through e-mail, yet it...