Studies and Analyses

Studies and Analyses

Rich people don't need friends

In The symbolic power of money: reminders of money alter social distress and physical pain published in the journal Psychological Science, Xinyue Zhou,…

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Designing Greener Consumer Products: A New Screening Method

Until now, there was no clear way to answer that question. Scientists are reporting development of a new method for screening molecules and predicting how…

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Chronic Angina Patients Face Poor Quality of Life, Study Reveals

The collaborative project between the University of Adelaide and Servier Australia surveyed more than 2000 chronic angina patients throughout Australia and has…

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Spanking’s Negative Impact on Low-Income Toddlers Revealed

Verbal punishment is not associated with such effects, especially when it is accompanied by emotional support from moms. In addition, 1-year-olds' fussiness…

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High-Quality Child Care Boosts Success for Low-Income Kids

For low income parents, finding high quality child care not only boosts the performance of their children in school, but actually combats the effects of…

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New Insights on Acne Challenges for Teens: A Global Study

University of Oslo researcher Jon Anders Halvorsen together with co-authors from Lhasa (Tibet) and Boston (US) studied 3775 adolescents to explore the possible…

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New Approaches to Education: Insights from UPV-EHU Research

A research group from the University of the Basque Country (UPV-EHU) has studied substituting the current way in which education is structured for a new one…

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Northwestern United States could face more tamarisk invasion by century's end

If the future warming trends that scientists have projected are realized, one of the country's most aggressive exotic plants will have the potential to invade…

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Children under 3 can't learn action words from TV — unless an adult helps

The study, by researchers at Temple University and the University of Delaware, can be found in the September/October 2009 issue of the journal Child…

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Understanding the Prevalence of Common Mental Disorders

It depends on how one goes about measuring.Duke University psychologists Terrie Moffitt and Avshalom Caspi and colleagues from the United Kingdom and New…

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Arctic Changes Signal Future Global Environmental Shifts

Researchers at the University of Helsinki have participated in two new studies indicating that the changes are astonishingly fast. Many original species of…

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Unlocking Antarctic Formation Secrets with New CO2 Data

A team of scientists from Cardiff, Bristol and Texas A&M universities braved the lions and hyenas of a small East African village to extract microfossils in…

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Fewer Americans Low Risk for Heart Disease, Report Finds

After two decades of improvement, the percentage of Americans without major heart disease risk factors is dropping, according to a report in Circulation:…

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Showerheads Expose Hidden Pathogens in Daily Showers

The researchers used high-tech instruments and lab methods to analyze roughly 50 showerheads from nine cities in seven states that included New York City,…

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Study Finds Kids With Minor Head Trauma Often Skip CT Scans

A substantial percentage of children who get CT scans after apparently minor head trauma do not need them, and as a result are put at increased risk of cancer…

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Controlling Swine Flu: 70% Vaccination Key for U.S.

Published in the Sept. 11 issue of Science Express, the early online edition of the journal Science, the study – which includes the first estimate of the…

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