In one experiment, children aged 3 and 4 saw a puppet named “Squirrel” remove five toys of the same type from a container full of toys and happily play with…
Many Americans believe they can save energy with small behavior changes that actually achieve very little, and severely underestimate the major effects of…
Taking care of business is becoming an ever-growing, 24/7 challenge for the American worker. A new study out of the University of Cincinnati is examining the…
Researchers from Mount Sinai School of Medicine have found that hospitalized patients with dysphagia, or difficulty swallowing, averaged a 40 percent longer…
“The question we asked was whether children who are relatively young compared to their classroom peers were more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD,” says Dr….
Findings published in this month's edition of the British Journal of Pharmacology show that giving emodin to mice with diet-induced obesity lowered blood…
“This is the first study of how deaf people in the United States use mobile video phones,” said project leader Eve Riskin, a UW professor of electrical…
The first study to compare the effectiveness of the birth control pill in women with marked weight differences has found that the pill works equally well in…
A new study by researchers with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) shows that ozone can react with the nicotine in secondhand smoke to…
The study, reported in “Cell Stem Cell” (Aug. 6, 2010) and reviewed in Cell Stem Cell and Cell, opens a new frontier for studying the molecular underpinnings…
“There's a famous Einstein quote: 'God does not play dice.' Unfortunately, we all have to do so every day,” said Hong, assistant professor in IU's School of…
The research, published in prestigious scientific journal Brain, is based on a major population study of women from Gothenburg. A representative sample of…
A thesis from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, indicates that people are more negatively affected than previously reported in studies of involuntary…
A growing body of experimental evidence is lending support to the theory that an exotic state of matter called a quantum spin liquid actually exists. In a…
The evidence of increasing racial disparities for obesity underscores the need for more tailored intervention programs and policies that target high-risk…
A study of more than 13,000 middle and high school students across the country found that “only children” were selected as friends by their schoolmates just as…
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