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Female Soccer Players Preen and 'Flop' Less Than Men, Studies Find
Analysis of game tape shows that women soccer players tend to flop and preen less than their male counterparts.
Penalty goalkeepers go right more often, study says
Goalkeepers defending against penalty kicks tend to dive right, says a study - but only if they are on a losing team.
OPINION: All in the mind: when your brain tricks you into feeling the pain of others
Bernadette Fitzgibbon explains why some of us experience pain synaesthesia – feeling the pain of others of phantom pains.
Empathic mum: kind kids
Children whose mothers have higher levels of empathy are more likely to adopt positive social behaviour, a new study shows.
Marketing instructor predicts Olympic locales
Greg Dumont doesn't need a crystal ball to predict where the next Olympic Games will be held ... he has science on his side.
Latino teens key for campaigns reaching out to immigrant families, study finds
Latino adolescents who share knowledge from the classroom, new media and information technology among immigrant families function as "civic information leaders," a new study by the University of Colorado Boulder...
Expert questions Lansley's claim that NHS spending will become unaffordable
England's health secretary Andrew Lansley has said that if England keeps on spending on health at the current rate, the NHS will be unaffordable in 20 years' time. But in...
Family planning in conflict
Many areas of the world are at war and both the conflict and aftermath have dire consequences for the health of people affected. New research published in BioMed Central's open...
Accentuating the positive may eliminate the negative in teenagers with anxiety
Training teenagers to look at social situations positively could help those with anxiety and may help prevent problems persisting into adult life, new research from Oxford University is beginning to...
Well: Can Shoes Really Tone the Body?
In one study, toning shoes provided benefits, but for only a limited time and not to the big, showy muscles in the wearers' calves and buttocks. And lawsuits have been...
Some Rare Agreement on Debt Talks: Health Groups Dislike Proposals
Proposals from budget negotiators to cut Medicare and Medicaid have provoked opposition from almost every major group that represents beneficiaries and health care providers.
Menopausal women don't need 'fixing', psychotherapist argues
Menopause shouldn't be seen as a medical problem that needs fixing but as a life-affirming and normal process that women go through. This is one of the findings by psychotherapist...
Parrotlet Chicks Learn Their Calls From Mom and Dad
First study of wild parrot chicks' calls show similarity to speech of human infants
Steroid stats promising among youth
But some say numbers could be misleading and masking true rates of useSteroid use among teens rose in 2010, but those crusading against steroids, like Bears legend Dick Butkus, believe...
Video: News of the World and "investigative journalism"
What's Trending panelists director Jason Pollock and actor/comedian Joshua Malina discuss what "investigative journalism" is today in light of the News of the World phone hacking scandal. Also in the...
How the connection to the future self impacts financial decision-making
How consumers feeling or not feeling connected to their future selves impacts their spending and savings decisions.
Family meals remain important through teen years, expert says
As children become teenagers, it may be more challenging to regularly include them in family meals, but doing so is key to heading off such problems as eating disorders, obesity,...
Should parents lose custody of super obese kids?
(AP) -- Should parents of extremely obese children lose custody for not controlling their kids' weight? A provocative commentary in one of the nation's most distinguished medical journals argues...
Kickstarter Science Catches On
Must be a zeitgeist thing. Our own Ground Station Calliope kickstarter fundraiser succeeded, to help fund our Science 2.0 Project Calliope. Now the NY Times is reporting that other scientists...
Video: Playing ball in Arizona for the All-Star Game
Baseball's annual All-Star Game is being held in Arizona this year amidst controversy over its harsh immigration bill. Our friends at Column Five Media give us some stats on what...
Out-of-Body Hallucinations Linked to Brain Glitch
Our brain's ability to understand and interpret where its individual parts are can be distorted, even in normal, healthy people.
Video: NeighborGoods: Borrowing sugar just got social
NeighborGoods.net is an online resource where you can share your household items with the people next door, saving both money and time all the while forming new connections with a...
Teen weight began to rise in 1990s, new study finds
A new study that looks at weight change over decades finds that the obesity epidemic in teens and young adults has its roots in the late 1990s and early 2000s,...
Deeper insight in the activity of cortical cells
Visual and tactile objects in our surroundings are translated into a perception by complex interactions of neurons in the cortex. The principles underlying spatial and temporal organization of neuronal activity...
Peru's new president makes ambitious plans for science
Ollanta Humala Tasso hopes to increase the country's science spend seven-fold by 2016 and improve public universities.
Well: The Voices of Macular Degeneration
Six men and women talk about coping with the loss of vision that occurs with macular degeneration.
Who wouldn't want to take the sting out of painful memories?
Research suggests a simple way to neutralise memories that evoke fear, but perhaps it is by learning to cope with life's random tragedies that we develop as humans?In some extreme cases people can...
How psychological cues can limit black students' academic learning, success
(PhysOrg.com) -- Like a gnawing stomach or pesky runny nose, a looming stereotype can make it difficult to focus and perform well in school. Based on existing research, black students,...