The study, in the July/August 2009 issue of the journal Child Development, was carried out as part of the Bucharest Early Intervention Project, a longitudinal…
In the last decade, a group of regions has been discovered in the human brain that are specifically used for social cognition. A new study in the July/August…
Brain scans of teens sizing each other up reveal an emotion circuit activating more in girls as they grow older, but not in boys. The study by Daniel Pine,…
These findings help address a longstanding debate about whether learning such information might cause lasting psychological harm, at least among those with a…
Conventional means of internal reinforcement for concrete member in buildings involve steel bars. Yet for structures that function in harsh environments like…
Apoptosis is a carefully orchestrated sequence of intracellular events that leads to the cell's death. “The cell takes itself apart in a finite series of…
One of the continuing mysteries of the HIV/AIDS epidemic is why women usually develop lower viral levels than men following acute HIV-1 infection but progress…
PBDEs have been measured in dust, air and both animal- and plant-derived foods. Dust has been thought to be the foremost route of exposure to PBDEs, but the…
This new finding also challenges the idea that early milk should be pumped and discarded as a means of reducing infant exposure to persistent organic…
The study, led by Murray Huff of the Robarts Research Institute at The University of Western Ontario looked at a flavonoid (plant-based bioactive molecule)…
Now, University of Missouri researchers have found that curcumin, a popular Indian spice derived from the turmeric root, could reduce the cancer risk for women…
University of Denver (DU) researchers find that couples who live together before they are engaged have a higher chance of getting divorced than those who wait…
Authors of the study published in Europe's leading cardiology journal, the European Heart Journal [1] today (Wednesday 15 July), analysed data from a group of…
The study is published this week in the Journal of Environmental Monitoring and will be used to interpret the data from the soil temperature sensor of NASA's…
Speciation, the process by which different populations of the same species split into separate species, is central to evolution. But it's notoriously hard to…
Heavy drinking, being 45 to 49 years old, type 1 diabetes or having a preceding infection are associated with more than twice the risk of death in stroke…