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Gardner wins accolade for research
Howard Gardner has been bestowed with the 2011 Prince of Asturias Award for Social Sciences, an award that honors individuals whose research has significantly contributed to the progress of their...
Children's earliest memories shift as they get older, study finds
The research could help psychologists better understand how people construct the life stories that help us understand ourselves, experts say.By quizzing small children about the first events they remember —...
Teens use peers as gauge in search for autonomy, and consistently assume others have more freedoms than they do
Two new studies find that teens' perceptions of peer freedom predicted their own desired levels of autonomy, and that teens consistently overestimated the actual levels of their peers' autonomy, assuming...
Marriage problems predict sleep difficulties in young children
A new study of more than 350 families has found that instability in the parents' relationship when the children are 9 months old predicted difficulties falling asleep and staying asleep...
Teens who feel responsible to their parents are more engaged in school
Researchers surveying 835 youths in suburban Chicago and Beijing have found that youths who feel more responsible to their parents stay engaged in school and perform better. The study was...
Mega Gift Strengthens UPenn Med School
A power couple in Philadelphia philanthropy, Raymond and Ruth Perelman, have made one of the...
It's official: art makes you happy - video
Scientists have discovered that looking at art induces the same feelings of pleasure as being in love
Resettlement is a positive move for homeless people
Resettlement services over the last few years have helped many homeless people make positive changes in their lives. The largest study in the UK of the resettlement of single homeless people...
US, Chinese children differ in commitment to parents over time
According to a new study, American, but not Chinese, children’s sense of responsibility to their parents tends to decline in the seventh and eighth grades, a trend that coincides with...
How Adversity Dulls Our Perceptions
Adversity, we are told, heightens our senses, imprinting sights and sounds precisely in our memories. But new Weizmann Institute research, which appeared in Nature Neuroscience this week, suggests...
Channel 4 to air live drug-taking
'Radical' science series to show people using class A drugs and alcohol under medical supervisionChannel 4 is planning to air live footage of people taking classs A drugs and alcohol to show...
The New Old Age: In the Dark, Maybe, but Not Lost
"Why are we in this tunnel?" my mother asks. If you'd been with us earlier in the day, you'd never have known she has dementia.
Honor for Native American
Harvard University announced today that it will honor one of the first Native Americans ever to attend Harvard College with a special posthumous degree at its 2011 Commencement exercises on May 26. Joel...
More than 1,100 rapes daily in DRCongo: study
More than 1,100 women are raped every day in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), making sexual violence against women 26 times more common than previously thought, a study concluded...
Well: Fidgeting Your Way to Fitness
If you can't squeeze a workout into the day's busy schedule, bobbing your foot, walking to the window or chopping onions for dinner may help to maintain or augment your...
Health union rejects 'totally inadequate' offer
The Health Sciences Association of Saskatchewan has broken off contract talks with the employer group known as SAHO, which bargains on behalf of the province's health organizations.
Marriage Choices May Widen Liberal-Conservative Gap
People gravitate toward those who vote like they do.
1% You (Didn't) Say?: EBCALA Press Conference On New Study On Autism And Vaccines
The “vaccine injury” community has been buzzing over the press conference and release of Holland et al’s supposedly earth shattering “study” published in the Pace Environmental Law Review. Some of...
Study: People choose mates on politics
HOUSTON, May 10 (UPI) -- Most people choose mates with matching political views, and those attitudes count for more than qualities such as personality or looks, U.S. researchers say.
GPS: What it can and can't do
Many drivers are abandoning paper maps entirely in favour of a glowing screen and a voice that politely tells them to "turn left in 300 metres" or "merge onto highway."...
How a person remembers a touch
Neuroscientists have now been able for the first time to document deliberate control of touch sensations in human working memory.
Record number of foreign MDs licenced in Ont.
A new report shows a record number of doctors were granted licences in Ontario last year and more than a third were from abroad.
New way to examine major depressive disorder in children
A landmark study has revealed a new way to distinguish children with major depressive disorder from not only normal children, but also from children with obsessive compulsive disorder.
Getting along with co-workers may prolong life: But support from the boss has no effect on mortality
People who have a good peer support system at work may live longer than people who don't have such a support system, according to new research.
Include indigenous communities in genomics research
Scientists must collaborate with indigenous communities to rebuild trust and ensure shared benefits, says geneticist Vanessa M. Hayes.
Fear of envy stifles agricultural innovation, study says
A study in Ethiopia suggests that the fear of a negative reaction from neighbours can deter villagers from adopting new technologies.
Computerized table lets students do virtual dissection
You make the diagnosis, said the anatomy instructor, looking up expectantly at his students.
The ecstasy of art
Scientists claim that beautiful paintings can induce pure pleasure in the beholder. So get thee to a gallery!So that's why I always feel so good after visiting London's National Gallery. A scientific study...