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New Method To Study Gambling Addictions Developed
Researchers have created the world's first animal laboratory experiment to successfully model human gambling. The advance will help scientists develop and test new treatments for gambling addictions, a devastating condition...
Robbery Suspects Nabbed By Google's Camera
Dutch Police Make Arrests After Victim Spots Suspects Following Him On Street View
Teens Are Heading In Wrong Direction: Likely To Have Sex, But Not Use Contraception
Between 2003 and 2007, the progress made in the 1990s and early 2000s in improving teen contraceptive use and reducing teen pregnancy and childbearing stalled, and may even have reversed...
Stroke survivors report loss of sexual desire, blurred gender roles, anger and fatigue
Suffering a stroke can have a profound effect on relationships and lead to significant changes in how couples relate to each other on a physical, psychological, social and emotional level,...
How We Recognize What Is True And What Is False
A recent neuroimaging study reveals that the ability to distinguish true from false in our daily lives involves two distinct processes.
4,900% markup on some text messages, researcher estimates
It costs a cellphone company a mere third of a cent to transmit a text message that it charges customers as much as 15 cents to send, estimates a University...
Test That Found Widespread Unconscious Racial Bias Validated
A new study validates the controversial finding that the Implicit Association Test indicated that about 70 percent of those people who took a version of the test that measures racial...
Study promotes educational reform based on school self-management
Researchers from the University of Murcia (UM) have investigated the issue of cooperation between families and schools, and are proposing changes be made to the organisational structure of schools to...
Wrong type of help from parents could worsen child's OCD
For most parents, soothing a child's anxiety is just part of the job. But for a parent whose child has obsessive-compulsive disorder, soothing anxiety and helping with behaviours linked to...
Texting in class
Texting in class usually gets kids in trouble. But some writing instructors, intrigued by the popularity of cell-phone novels in Japan, are considering phone composition as a way to get...
Anime's fan girls
Girls are gathering online to remake male-oriented Japanese animation videos into romances -- and in the process are picking up skills in film editing, storytelling and feminist literary criticism.
Apology empty, says woman wrongly given chemotherapy drugs
An eastern Newfoundland woman who was mistakenly given a powerful cancer-fighting drug says she is not satisfied with a written apology she has received.
Israeli scientists show bacteria can plan ahead
Bacteria can anticipate a future event and prepare for it, according to new research at the Weizmann Institute of Science. In a paper that appeared today in Nature, Prof. Yitzhak...
Japanese study shows overweight people live longest
Good news at last for chubby people having a few love handles may help a person live longer, a recent study showed.
Gap between boys and girls persists in tech
My 4-year-old daughter Kalian has become fascinated about printing on the -- "'puter," as she calls it. My wife or I will open a Word file on our family PC,...
Tweet success: It's easy to lose interest in Twitter, but there are reasons to stick with it
You've created an account and started following some users. You may have even sent a few tweets out into the world, expressing how you feel about the economy or the...
Jury 'Lottery' Goes On Trial
The current legal system relies on the moral compass of each individual jury to decide the outcome of a trial. This method could be viewed more as a lottery than...
Video: Internet's Role In Iran
Iran has a history of riots and protests. Students rioted in 1999 and 2003, but were put down quickly. The difference this time is the internet. Bob Orr reports.
YouTube's Role In Iran's Protests
Steve Grove Discusses How The Video Portal Is Helping Document And Share News In Iran
Research parks feel the economic pinch
Once lauded as incubators of high-tech jobs, science parks find themselves struggling in the new financial environment.
Study discovers clues into how eyes search
Like the robots in the "Terminator" movies, our eyes move methodically through a scene when seeking out an object. If we don't immediately find what we're searching for, our attention...
Group Health Cooperative shows investing in more primary care pays for itself
SEATTLE -- An evaluation of recent innovations in delivering primary care at a Group Health Cooperative medical center shows significant success and rapid return on investment. The data led to...
Scientists search for sleepless souls suffering lifelong insomnia
Most people have experienced the odd sleepless night before a crucial exam, a job interview or before going on holiday, but few people get by with just a couple of...
UCLA Appeals Citations
University admits no fault in death of laboratory worker; family wants sanctions increased.
Broadband Access Jumps
Some 63 percent of U.S. adults have high-speed Internet connections at home as of April, compared to 55 percent a year prior.
Twitter brings new language to old institution, the Senate
Sen. Charles Grassley was darned annoyed when he saw that President Barack Obama was having a good time in Paris. So Grassley tweeted in protest: "Pres Obama while u sightseeing...
Employers avoid ethnic names
A study has found that people with ethnic names are more likely to have their job applications rejected early, regardless of qualifications.
Literacy Programs
Between 80-85 percent of children learn to read by the middle of first grade and a good number of those children will learn without the advantage of picture reading programs...