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Can I Trust My Gut to Know If I've Found My True Love?

Can you trust your gut to tell you who is a good choice to marry?  Is cohabitation a good way to assess if a true love will be likely to make a good mate? My answer to those last two questions would be no and no.  There's lots of folks that a given person can love. & …

Women's scientific achievements often overlooked and undervalued

A new study from Social Studies of Science (published by SAGE) reveals that when men chair committees that select scientific awards recipients, males win the awards more than 95% of the time. This new study also reports that while in the past two decades women have begun to win …

Bad Genius: The Link Between Arrogance and Creativity

1. My mother said to me, ‘If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.’ Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso. —Pablo Picasso

How Sleep-Friendly Is Your Bedroom?

There’s no room in our homes that we spend more time in than the bedroom. You can say I’m biased, but I think it’s the most important room in the house. The National Sleep Foundation has just released the results of its first-ever “Bedroom Poll …

Expensive hospital readmissions linked to health-care-associated infections

"Although much attention has been directed toward hospital readmissions and healthcare-associated infections as potentially preventable conditions and targets to reduce healthcare spending, to our knowledge, no studies have directly assessed the association between the two," wr …

Climatic effects of a solar minimum

Maar lake sediments reveal a grand solar minimum and the climate response recorded for the first time in the same climate archive highlights the need for a more differentiated approach to solar radiation.

Mobbing May Day: Beware the mob that advocates fairness.

The Occupy movement is celebrating May Day to emphasize the importance of workers’ rights by starting a general strike across the US. The strike is meant to show that “the 99 percent,” by sheer weight of numbers, are a force to be reckoned with.

Longer sleep times may counteract genetic factors related to weight gain

Toss out another old wives' tale: Sleeping too much does not make you fat. Quite the opposite, according to a new study examining sleep and body mass index (BMI) in twins, which found that sleeping more than nine hours a night may actually suppress genetic influences on body we …

An Intimate Wash That Exposes Our Dirty Psyche | Mumbai Boss

My vagina isn’t happy about what’s been happening recently in Indian media. In the age of Internet—if you value the freedom to roam around on the worldwide web, you really should sign this petition to protect Internet freedom—it’s easy to forget w …

Orangutans harbor ancient primate Alu

Alu elements infiltrated the ancestral primate genome about 65 million years ago. Once gained an Alu element is rarely lost so comparison of Alu between species can be used to map primate evolution and diversity. New research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Mo …

New method to measure work addiction

Researchers from Norway and the United Kingdom have developed a new instrument to measure work addiction: The Bergen Work Addiction Scale. The new instrument is based on core elements of addiction that are recognised as diagnostic criteria for several addictions.

Rutgers Study: Vitamin E in Diet Protects Against Many Cancers

While the question of whether vitamin E prevents or promotes cancer has been widely debated in scientific journals and in the news media, scientists at the Center for Cancer Prevention Research, at Rutgers Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, and the Cancer Institute of New Jersey, …

Nano-Devices that Cross Blood-Brain Barrier Open Door to Treatment of Cerebral Palsy, Other Neurologic Disorders

A team of scientists from Johns Hopkins and elsewhere have developed nano-devices that  successfully cross the brain-blood barrier and deliver a drug that tames brain-damaging inflammation in rabbits with cerebral palsy. 

Being Outdoors Can Help ADHD Symptoms

Seventeen children with professionally-diagnosed ADHD, ages 7 to 12, experienced three different treatments.  Two of the treatments consisted of a 20-minute guided walk in the city (one downtown, one in a neighborhood), while one treatment was a 20-minute guided walk throu …

Nutritional Brain Bomb: Thiamine Deficiency

Chronic thiamine deficiency is not curable and can result in a particular type of brain syndrome called Korsakoff's psychosis.  The afflicted will have poor memory and confabulate like crazy--meaning, you ask him a question, and he will not know the answer, but h …

Autism may be linked to obesity during pregnancy

Obesity during pregnancy may increase chances for having a child with autism, provocative new research suggests.

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nsf.gov - National Science Foundation (NSF) News - Burtele Foot Indicates Lucy Not Alone - US National Science Foundation (NSF)

A new fossil discovery from Eastern Africa called the Burtele foot indicates Australopithecus afarensis, an early relative of modern humans, may not have been the only hominin to walk the plains and woodlands of what is now the Afar region of Ethiopia some 3.4 million years ago …

PTSD genes identified by UCLA study

Why do some persons succumb to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) while others who suffered the same ordeal do not? A new UCLA study may shed light on the answer. UCLA scientists have linked two genes involved in serotonin production to a higher risk of developing PTSD. Pub …

Study: Exercise can lead to female orgasm, sexual pleasure

Findings from a first-of-its-kind study by Indiana University researchers confirm anecdotal evidence that exercise -- absent sex or fantasies -- can lead to female orgasm.

Discovery of hair-cell roots suggests the brain modulates sound sensitivity

The hair cells of the inner ear have a previously unknown "root" extension that may allow them to communicate with nerve cells and the brain to regulate sensitivity to sound vibrations and head position, researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicin …

Genetic manipulation boosts growth of brain cells linked to learning, enhances antidepressants

UT Southwestern Medical Center investigators have identified a genetic manipulation that increases the development of neurons in the brain during aging and enhances the effect of antidepressant drugs.

Spider silk could be the secret ingredient in tomorrow's electronics

Researchers have discovered that spider silk conducts heat more efficiently than almost any other material on Earth; which means the day could be fast approaching when spider webs actually belong on your electronics.

Antimatter Atom Measured for the First Time | LiveScience

Scientists have taken the first-ever measurement of an atom made of antimatter.

Missing: Electron antineutrinos; Reward: Understanding of matter-antimatter imbalance

 An international particle physics collaboration today announced its first results toward answering a longstanding question – how the elusive particles called neutrinos can appear to vanish as they travel through space.

Not snow: SPIDER WEBS blanket Australian countryside - NYPOST.com

Thousands of spiders have cast eerie webs over vast areas of flood-hit Australia after being forced to seek shelter by the rising waters.

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