The good chemical and ecological status of water bodies as defined by the EU Water Framework Directive is unlikely to be attained in Germany by 2015. This is…
The study finds reveal that mental disorders have become Europe's largest health challenge in the 21st century. The study also highlights that the majority of…
From July 1, 2010, to June 30, 2011, unionization rates remained essentially flat in Los Angeles but fell close to a percentage point in California and tumbled…
Children who live in households where they are exposed to tobacco smoke miss more days of school than do children living in smoke-free homes, a new nationwide…
The first report of the presence of alternative lengthening of telomeres (ALT) in cancers arising from the bladder, cervix, endometrium, esophagus,…
The study, “A cross-linguistic perspective on speech information rate,” to be published in the September 2011 issue of the scholarly journal Language, is…
This project focuses on recent policies developed in response to the spread of avian influenza. In response to widespread avian influenza H5N1 outbreaks in…
Insomnia is costing the average U.S. worker 11.3 days, or $2,280 in lost productivity every year, according to a study in the September 1 issue of the journal…
A natural yellowing of the eye lens that absorbs blue light has been linked to sleep disorders in a group of test volunteers, according to a study in the…
“I examined the idea of ‘relative position,’ or where one fits into the income distribution in their local community, as it applies to both trust of neighbors…
A landmark study in the late 1960s and early 1970s used marshmallows and cookies to assess the ability of preschool children to delay gratification. If they…
Are new England's iconic maple trees at risk? If a beetle has its way, the answer may be yes.Results from the first study of the Asian longhorned beetle (ALB)…
The study, published online today in the journal Child Development, focused on epigenetics – the expression of genes as opposed to the underlying sequence of…
“You don't have to go out and party to be happy. That's the thing students feel they need to do, particularly when they're new to campus,” said Bernardo J….
New research from MIT suggests that there are parts of our brain dedicated to language and only language, a finding that marks a major advance in the search…
The research team, led by Christopher Trentacosta, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychology in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Wayne State…