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Investing in Happiness: The Child Paradox Explained

The more children young parents have, the unhappier they are. From age 40 on, however, it is the other way round. Then, more children generally mean more…

Information Technology

NASA and other satellites keeping busy with this week's severe weather

Today the eastern third of the U.S. is being buffered by a large storm that stretches from southeastern Minnesota east to Wisconsin and Michigan, then south…

Life & Chemistry

H1N1: Insights Into Its Impact and Historical Context

In the fall of 1917, a new strain of influenza swirled around the globe. At first, it resembled a typical flu epidemic: Most deaths occurred among the elderly,…

Life & Chemistry

New Study Uncovers Three Layers of Brain’s Working Memory

Researchers from Rice University and Georgia Institute of Technology have found support for the theory that the brain has three concentric layers of working…

Life & Chemistry

Researchers Control Brain Anxiety Pathways: Study Insights

A new study sheds light–both literally and figuratively–on the intricate brain cell connections responsible for anxiety.Scientists at Stanford University…

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Giving children the power to be scientists

The research project led by The University of Nottingham and The Open University has shown that school children who took the lead in investigating science…

Life & Chemistry

Researchers develop synthetic compound that may lead to drugs to fight pancreatic, lung cancer

The researchers are testing the compound's effectiveness at fighting tumors in mice. If it is successful, they will then work to develop a drug based on the…

Life & Chemistry

New UF study shows some sharks follow 'mental map' to navigate seas

Researchers found tiger and thresher sharks showed the ability to orient at large distances, with tiger sharks swimming in direct paths at least 4 miles away…

Life & Chemistry

New Biomarker Discovered for Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease

The finding, published in the March 9th issue of PLoS ONE, a scientific journal produced by the Public Library of Science, provides a basis for developing a…

Life & Chemistry

Nottingham scientists identify trigger in cat allergy

The team of immunologists led by Drs Ghaem-Maghami and Martinez-Pomares in the University's School of Molecular Medical Sciences, and funded by the charity…

Health & Medicine

Passive smoking increases risk to unborn babies, study says

The study, published in the April edition of the journal Pediatrics, found passive smoking increased the risk of still birth by almost one-quarter (23 per…

Studies and Analyses

Hopkins Children's study finds some patients with cerebral palsy have asymmetric pelvic bones

Johns Hopkins Children's Center researchers have discovered that most children with severe cerebral palsy have starkly asymmetric pelvic bones. The newly…

Life & Chemistry

Brandeis Researchers Visualize Gene Splicing Using Lasers

From neurosurgery to bar code readers, lasers have been used in a myriad of applications since they were first introduced in the late 1950's. Now, with the…

Studies and Analyses

Link Between Low Birth Weight and Later Obesity Explained

Providing further understanding of the link between low birth weights and obesity later in life, researchers found nutritionally deprived newborns are…

Life & Chemistry

Scientists Discover Key to Effective Meningitis Vaccine

The study, authored by Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute (CHORI) scientists Dan Granoff, MD, and Peter Beernink, PhD, and colleagues at the…

Life & Chemistry

Genebanks Could Be Storing the Wrong Seeds

However, genebanks are modern institutions that were established after many of the old cultivars were no longer in use. The seeds stored for old cultivars were…

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