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BYU Study: Online RPGs Impact Marital Satisfaction

The study reports that 75 percent of spouses of sword-carrying, avatar-loving gamers wish they would put less effort into their guilds and more effort into…

Studies and Analyses

Larger Waistlines May Signal Memory Issues in HIV Patients

“Interestingly, bigger waistlines were linked to decreased mental functioning more than was general obesity,” said study author J. Allen McCutchan, MD, MSc, of…

Studies and Analyses

New Study by Biologist Finds Dramatic Improvements and Persistent Challenges for Women in Science

However, there have been few studies in which longitudinal data were used to assess changes over time. In a paper recently published in the journal BioScience,…

Physics & Astronomy

Hovering Not Hard if You’re Top-Heavy

Their findings, which appear in the journal Physical Review of Letters, are counter to common perceptions that flight stability can be achieved only through a…

Earth Sciences

Global Temperature Report: January 2012

January temperatures (preliminary)Global composite temp.: -0.09 C (about 0.16 degrees Fahrenheit) below 30-year average for January.Northern Hemisphere: -0.06…

Life & Chemistry

Explosive Evolution Need Not Follow Mass Extinctions

This discovery, based on new research, challenges the widely held assumption that a period of explosive evolution quickly follows for survivors of mass…

Earth Sciences

Fukushima’s Earthquake Risk: New Study Highlights Concerns

The new study, which uses data from over 6,000 earthquakes, shows the 11 March tremor caused a seismic fault close to the nuclear plant to reactivate. The…

Life & Chemistry

MDC Researchers Uncover Key Mechanism in Forebrain Anomalies

In holoprosencephaly (HPE), the forebrain (prosencephalon) is only incompletely formed. Here a binding site (receptor) for cholesterol plays a key role. If…

Science Education

Immigrant Youth Challenge School Integration Policy

They are wondering why they have to be mixed with other students in school when the entire society is so segregated. A new doctoral thesis from the University…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Nanotechnology’s Role in Energy-Efficient Electronics

Physicist Niklas Lindahl at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, has been studying the unique properties of the materials, which in future may result in…

Health & Medicine

Exercise in Your Twenties: Boost Bone Health and Lower Osteoporosis Risk

The strength of our bones is determined early in life. The more bone mass we put on when young, the smaller the risk of fractures as we grow older. Previous…

Science Education

New Computer Program Mimics Human Thinking Processes

Researchers at the Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, have created a computer programme that…

Physics & Astronomy

Two world records at the FRM II: The world’s strongest and purest neutron beam

But that is not all: During the long maintenance break in 2011, the instrument PGAA (Prompt Gamma Activation Analysis) was improved to give it the best ratio…

Life & Chemistry

Complex wiring of the nervous system may rely on a just a handful of genes and proteins

Researchers at the Salk Institute have discovered a startling feature of early brain development that helps to explain how complex neuron wiring patterns are…

Life & Chemistry

Exploring Molecules Faster with AI and Quantum Chemistry

By combining quantum chemistry with artificial intelligence (Machine Learning), researchers at the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics at the University…

Trade Fair News

French Food Innovators Shine at Hotelympia 2012

The French Trade Commission UBIFRANCE in the UK will showcase six French-based players specialising in a range of food products for caterers and chefs. The…

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