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Don’t Ask Dad about Drugs

01/03/2013

Parents talking about their own drug use to children could be detrimental as children respond better to antidrug messages when parents don't disclose past drug use....

Miscarriage and War Stress

28/02/2013

Rocket attacks in Sderot, Israel significantly increase the likelihood of miscarriages, according to a new study by Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researchers....

Stretchy Battery Completed

27/02/2013

Work completed on a rechargeable stretchy battery that can twist and bend -- and return to normal shape...

Snow Globe: Climate Change Shake Up

27/02/2013

A new climate change model predicts an increase in snowfall for the Earth's polar regions and highest altitudes, but an overall drop in snowfall for the globe, as carbon dioxide levels rise over the...

Alcohol Abusers’ Depression Related to Drinking

24/02/2013

Experts have long known that heavy drinking can spur temporary episodes of depression—what's known as "substance-induced depression."...

“Cities can cut greenhouse emissions by 70%”

21/02/2013

Cities around the world can significantly reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by implementing aggressive but practical policy changes....

New Bomb Detection Technique Discovered

20/02/2013

Explosive breakthrough in research on molecular recognition as researchers discover new bomb detection technique....

Name-brand or generic?

16/02/2013

Name-Brand or generic: Conservatives and liberals don't just differ when it comes to politics, they may also make different purchases at the grocery store. ...

Mental Health Infrastructure Forgets Youth

14/02/2013

Mental health facilities that provide outpatient specialty services for youth are a critical element of the mental health care infrastructure, especially for youth who are uninsured or publically...

Shark Attacks : Florida Leads

12/02/2013

In the case of a shark attack, researchers advise taking a proactive response, such as hitting the shark's nose, since they respect size and power....

Cats and Kids: the tale of Epilepsy

11/02/2013

Research shows cats and human have a similar form of epilepsy. ...

GM Tobacco Plants Treat Rabies

10/02/2013

Smoking tobacco might be bad for your health, but a genetically altered version of the plant might provide a relatively inexpensive cure for the deadly rabies virus....

Global warming less extreme than feared?

05/02/2013

Global warming less extreme than feared? Internationally renowned climate researcher Caroline Leck of Stockholm University has evaluated the Norwegian project and is enthusiastic....

30% of teen girls report meeting online friends

29/01/2013

Study highlights special risk faced by abused and neglected online teen girls. ...

Single Women, Sex and Colonial Religion

27/01/2013

Research reveals how single women shaped the religious culture of colonial Latin America...

The most surreal science article ever.

26/01/2013

transposable elements, or jumping genes, which are largely idle in mammals...

Babies learn In Utero

22/01/2013

Babies only hours old are able to differentiate between sounds from their native language and a foreign language....

How to treat heat like light

21/01/2013

New approach using nanoparticle alloys allows heat to be focused or reflected just like electromagnetic waves...

Galactic geysers fuelled by star stuff

20/01/2013

Seen from Earth, but invisible to the human eye, the outflows stretch about two-thirds across the sky from horizon to horizon....

Playing Sport for Fun

19/01/2013

To protect against injuries, young athletes may need to play more just for fun...

Girls better at school, worse at tests

14/01/2013

Why do girls get better grades in elementary school than boys—even when they perform worse on standardized tests?...

Let crying babes lie

13/01/2013

Let crying babes lie: Study supports notion of leaving infants to cry themselves back to sleep...

Magnetic fields created before the first stars

12/01/2013

"No one knows how magnets work!" - Bochum physicist calculates field strengths in the early universe...

The Benefits Cap: Four Things We Have Learned

12/01/2013

The Conservatives’ only hope is an improvement in economic growth, and as their actions have cut rather than encouraged consumer spending, this grows ever more unlikely....

Get moving on those resolutions

11/01/2013

For those short on time, aerobic, not resistance, exercise is best bet for weight, fat loss...

Head kids, hurt bad

10/01/2013

Second impact syndrome: A devastating injury to the young brain. Science shows that it's more or less okay to band kids on the head once. ...

Avoid Fructose!

09/01/2013

Fructose Ingestion and Cerebral, Metabolic, and Satiety Responses. Associations between fructose consumption and weight gain. Booze and fried bananas also implicated. ...

Space travel is harmful to the brain

08/01/2013

As if space travel was not already filled with enough dangers, a new study out today in the journal PLOS ONE shows that cosmic radiation could accelerate the onset of Alzheimer's disease....

Relax. You Can Change

02/01/2013

young people, middle-aged people and older people all believe that they have changed a lot in the past -- but that they will change relatively little in the future....

Higher, Drunker, Faster: Female Students Binge-Drinking

01/01/2013

The amount drunk per unit of time is higher among women. In other words, even though male students drink more often, females do so more intensively in shorter periods of time...

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