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New study finds severe financial vulnerability among African-American and Latino seniors
Millions of African-American and Latino seniors are living on the edge of financial collapse, according to a new report, Severe Financial Insecurity among African American and Latino Seniors. Released today...
Mumbai gunman sentenced to death
The Pakistani national was convicted on 86 counts, including murder and waging war, in the 2008 attack that killed 166 people in India. ...
Study Reveals How to Get Kids to Eat More Fruit
Kids eat more fruit when it's presented in a visually appealing manner
Trauma-induced changes to genes may lead to PTSD
A study by researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health suggests that traumatic experiences 'biologically embed' themselves in select genes, altering their functions and leading to the development...
Kids with hearing loss in 1 ear fall behind in language skills
By the time they reach school age, one in 20 children have hearing loss in one ear. That can raise significant hurdles for these children, say the results of a...
Copycat behaviour in children is universal and may help promote human culture
Children learn a great deal by imitating adults. A new study of Australian preschoolers and Kalahari Bushman children finds that a particular kind of imitation - overimitation, in which a...
Inbreeding may have caused Darwin family ills
Charles Darwin's worries about possible adverse effects of inbreeding in his family seem to have been justified, according to a study described in the May 2010 issue of BioScience. Darwin...
Risk of suicide, suicide attempt similar across types of antidepressant medication
Among adults beginning antidepressant therapy, the risk of suicide or suicide attempts does not appear to vary by individual type or class of medication, according to a report in the...
Revolution with a salad spinner
A simple salad spinner will save lives this summer, if everything goes as planned by two Rice University undergraduates...
Earlier, later puberty may trigger aggression in boys
Puberty that arrives earlier or later in adolescent boys relative to their peers can trigger chemicals that are related to antisocial behaviour, according to researchers, whose findings have key implications...
Brain changes associated with fragile X take place before age 2
Brain changes associated with the most common cause of mental retardation can be seen in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans of children as young as one to three years old,...
Actress Lynn Redgrave dies of cancer at 67
'Child of whom nothing was really expected' in famed acting family was nominated for two Academy Awards and won two Golden Globes. Lynn Redgrave, a member of the distinguished British acting family who...
Brain Study: Sensitive Persons' Perception Moderates Responses Based On Culture
(PhysOrg.com) -- Building on previous brain imaging research that revealed cultural influences play a role in neural activation during perception, Arthur Aron, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology at Stony Brook University,...
Naftogaz-Gazprom link opposed
KIEV, Ukraine, May 3 (UPI) -- A possible merger between Russian gas monopoly Gazprom and Ukrainian utility Naftogaz contradicts Ukrainian national interests, a former president said.
Nutrition assistance programs for children
The American Dietetic Association has published an updated position paper on nutrition assistance programs for children that reviews existing programs and their value, discusses barriers to participation and encourages more...
Too Much TV Makes Kids Fat And Stupid
Watching too much TV may make children fat, bad at math and expose them to all kinds of other evils, say "child experts" writing in the Archives of Pediatrics&Adolescent Medicine....
Vital Signs: Students Who Are Addicted to Indoor Tanning
Researchers in New York found that among 421 university students in a 2006 study, 229 had used indoor tanning facilities and 70 to 90 students in that group appeared to...
Watching TV at Age 2 Linked to a Host of Problems at 10
Too much TV at a young age is associated with academic, social and health problems later in life, a new study finds.
Testosterone directly amplifies but does not program male behaviors
New research uncovers some surprising information about how sex hormones control masculinization of the brain during development and drive gender related behaviors in adult males. The study demonstrates that direct...
Pope Nearly Endorses the Shroud of Turin, But Is It Real?
Pope Benedict XVI said the Shroud of Turin's message is keeping up hope. But is the supposed burial cloth of Jesus real?
Iraqi election recount begins and criticism quickly follows
A key supporter of Prime Minister Nouri Maliki, whose party wanted a recount, demands that the number of ballots be compared with the number of voter registration signatures. The dispute...
It's not sexist to accept that biology affects behaviour | Simon Baron-Cohen
Biological determinism has been attacked for underpinning gender stereotypes but this is to misunderstand our workNatasha Walter suggests women are invisible in public life because of "boxing them up into tired old stereotypes"...
Immigration a hot topic in Whitman and Poizner's last debate
The GOP rivals trade attacks over Arizona's new law, as well as each other's business dealings and consistency on policy issues. ...
Mathematics For Amphibians
One of the disappointments experienced by most mathematics students is that they never get a course in mathematics. They get courses in calculus, algebra, topology, and so on, but the...
Indian science needs irreverence
Indian science must embrace a spirit of irreverence to succeed in the 21st century, says R. A. Mashelkar.
Proposed test of weak equivalence principle could be most accurate yet
(PhysOrg.com) -- The weak equivalence principle (WEP) - which states that all bodies fall at the same rate in a gravitational field, regardless of structure or composition - is one...
Science in God's image | Steve Fuller
The greatest scientific advances presuppose something that looks very like the mind of GodThe question: Is intelligent design bad theology?Intelligent design theory (ID), the latest version of scientific creationism to challenge the Darwinian...
Letters: The fears and facts of VBACs
As a still-practicing obstetrician of over 30 years, I extend kudos to your freelance writer Taffy Brodesser-Akner for her wonderful first-person piece "The Birth of a Dilemma" [April...