A new study forecasts when climate factors such as temperature, humidity and rainfall will match at geographically distant airline departure and destination…
The study, in the journal Hippocampus, shows that hippocampus size in physically fit adults accounts for about 40 percent of their advantage in spatial memory.The hippocampus, a curved structure deep inside the medial temporal lobe of the brain, is essential to memory formation. Remove it – as was done in the well-known case of surgical patient Henry Gustav Molaison – and a person’s ability to store most new experiences in memory is destroyed….
An extreme heat wave affected much of the state of California during mid- to late July 2006, breaking daily maximum temperature records in many regions of the…
A biochemical analysis of a rare Clovis-era stone tool cache recently unearthed in the city limits of Boulder, Colo., indicates some of the implements were…
Researchers, whose results appear in the March issue of the journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology, tested water over a one-year period in rivers and…
Transcendental Meditation may be an effective non-medicinal tool for students to buffer themselves against the intense stresses of college life, according to a…
The research-based initiative already has proven successful in the Lansing School District, based on a new study, and now is being replicated at a much larger…
She was probably paying more attention than you thought. In fact, a new study co-authored by a researcher from North Carolina State University says the…
A study of telephone call center employees is one of the first to suggest that previous work experience isn’t all positive for new employees. Workers may keep…
The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is titled “Assessing Dangerous Climate Change Through an Update of the IPCC…
The GISS analysis also showed that 2008 is the ninth warmest year since continuous instrumental records were started in 1880. The ten warmest years on record…
Even though conventional wisdom says choose the vacation, authors Leonardo Nicolao, Julie R. Irwin (both University of Texas at Austin), and Joseph K. Goodman…
A new study in the Journal of Consumer Research discovered a technique for helping consumers make sense of the ever-changing product landscape.According to…
That first “mini-stroke” may be more of a benign event for women than men, according to researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) and Yale…
High-flux hemodialysis (which removes large toxins) reduces the risk of premature death in many patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), according to a…
Vitamin D may be an important way to arm the immune system against disorders like the common cold, report investigators from the University of Colorado Denver…
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