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UCF Professor Debunks Ghost and Vampire Myths This Halloween

As the weather cools and Halloween approaches, chilling creaks in the stairs, bloodcurdling screams from the attic and other paranormal activity become more…

Health & Medicine

Further evidence that moderate drinking reduces men's heart attack risk

A new study led by researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) helps answer this question….

Studies and Analyses

Eye Color Clues: How Blue Eyes Hint at Paternity

Before you request a paternity test, spend a few minutes looking at your child’s eye color. It may just give you the answer you’re looking for. According to…

Life & Chemistry

Diabetes Gene TCF7L2: Risks Comparable to Obesity

The collaborative team led by UCL Professor Steve Humphries studied the TCF7L2 gene, which was discovered to be implicated in diabetes earlier this year by a…

Life & Chemistry

Scientists find a key to immune system's ability to remember

Its ability to accurately catalog and recall long past encounters with viruses, bacteria and other pathogens is why we only get the measles or chicken pox…

Earth Sciences

Steep oxygen decline halted first land colonization by Earth's sea creatures

The mysterious lull in vertebrate colonization of land is known as Romer's Gap, named for the Yale University paleontologist, Alfred Romer, who first…

Life & Chemistry

Groups and grumps: Study identifies 'sociality' neurons

Led by James Goodson, associate professor of psychology and neuroscience, and detailed in this week's early online edition of the Proceedings of the National…

Health & Medicine

Obesity in Indo-Asian Populations: WHO’s New BMI Guidelines

As a result, the World Health Organization has suggested lower BMI cutoff values for the definitions of overweight and obesity in Asian populations. Using…

Social Sciences

Crime­a problem for the poor

“This is not because poor people often live in segregated areas or that the poor have a different life style than other people. It appears, rather, that…

Social Sciences

Climbing the Property Ladder: A Look at Class Divisions

Despite the nation's seeming obsession with property, the class system is alive and well when it comes to moving house. The research from Sheffield Hallam…

Information Technology

W3C Launches First GRDDL Specification for Semantic Web Integration

Today, the World Wide Web Consortium forged an important link between Semantic Web and microformats communities. With “Gleaning Resource Descriptions from…

Physics & Astronomy

Hubble Confirms Stellar Sorting in Globular Star Clusters

This is the just the kind of challenge faced by astronomers trying to understand the dynamics of the swarm of stars in the globular star clusters that orbit…

Health & Medicine

Psoriasis Awareness: Uncovering Hidden Symptoms This World Day

World Psoriasis Day will have a more poignant focus this year as the International Psoriasis Council (IPC) issues a ‘call to action’ to medical experts to…

Life & Chemistry

Killing Brain Tumors From Within: a ‘Trojan Horse’ Approach Developed by Hebrew University and German Researchers

Alexander Levitzki, who is the Wolfson Family Professor of Biochemistry, his research associate, Dr. Alexei Shir, and his colleagues from the…

Life & Chemistry

University of Manchester Opens £38M Interdisciplinary Institute

The Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre (MIB) will bring together experts from a wide range of disciplines in order to tackle major challenges in…

Studies and Analyses

Women’s Trust in Workplace Relationships: Key Insights Revealed

Dr Simon Pervan interviewed 400 senior men and women marketing managers about their relationships with people from other companies in the advertising and…

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