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Ordinary T-shirts could become body armor
(PhysOrg.com) -- A simple cotton T-shirt may one day be converted into tougher, more comfortable body armor for soldiers or police officers.
Recipes for Health: Broccoli With Chile and Garlic
This simple preparation makes a wonderful side dish or pasta ingredient.
New aneurysm risk factors identified
NEW HAVEN, Conn., April 6 (UPI) -- A U.S.-led international team of scientists has identified three new genetic variants that increase a person's risk of developing brain aneurysms.
Economists need their own uncertainty principle
Bad risk management contributed to the current financial crisis. Two economists believe the situation could be improved by gaining a deeper understanding of what is not known, as Philip Ball...
Sibling conflict harms trust and communication between adolescent siblings
Whether it is about who gets to ride shotgun or who wore a shirt without asking, siblings fight. While seemingly innocent, a recent study at the University of Missouri reveals...
A sense of home important is in residential care for the elderly
Many elderly people in residential care feel insecure during relocation or renovation work - but there are ways of handling the situation. Those who manage to create a sense of...
'Failure is good'
`Greed is good` became a popular phrase in the aftermath of the 1987 movie Wall Street, implying that the riches of individual financiers were justified by the role those people...
Online interactions have positive effects for real-life communities
Online interactions not only have positive outcomes for real-life, place-based communities, but the intersection between online communication and the offline world also forms two halves of a support mechanism for...
Exposure to 3 classes of common chemicals may affect female development
Researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine have found that exposure to three common chemical classes -- phenols, phthalates and phytoestrogens -- in young girls may disrupt the timing of...
How Do Americans View Organ Donation?
43 percent of people are undecided, reluctant or do not wish to have their organs and tissue donated after their deaths, according to a new survey conducted by Donate Life...
Health care groups collaborate on new reference guides for personal health records
Several groups across the healthcare sector will rollout two new "Personal Health Record (PHR) Quick Reference Guides" in an effort to educate consumers and clinicians about how PHRs can be...
Are Men the More Belligerent Sex?
The notion that men have shorter fuses than women has acquired the status of a psychological shibboleth. More than 30 years ago Stanford University psychologists Eleanor Maccoby and Carol Jacklin...
Belief that intentional weight loss is harmful to seniors is unfounded
A new study by researchers at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Centre is the first to refute the widely held belief that intentional weight loss in older adults leads to...
Brian Cox: The man with the stars in his eyes
The new poster boy for science on TV is a research physicist likeable enough to draw five million viewers. But he's not afraid to speak his mind.In an increasingly fragmented culture, it's...
In Profile: Missy Cummings
Mary (Missy) Cummings was exhilarated the first time she landed a fighter jet aboard an aircraft carrier in 1989, but the young pilot's elation didn't last long. Seconds later, a close friend died...
Mephedrone: the anatomy of a media drug scare
Hysteria and inaccuracies have been the main ingredients of the media coverage of mephedroneNic FlemingEven Chris Morris might have had trouble making it up. In 1997, the celebrated satirist tricked public figures including...
Young travellers need health advice
A new study suggests most children and teens who travel overseas to visit friends and families risk getting deadly rabies and other preventable diseases because their parents don't seek medical...
Short-term program for binge eaters has long-term benefits, study finds
A new study finds that a self-guided, 12-week program helps binge eaters stop binging for up to a year and the program can also save money for those who participate....
For better romantic relationships, be true to yourself
Be true to yourself, and better romantic relationships will follow, research suggests. A new study examined how dating relationships were affected by the ability of people to see themselves clearly...
Keeping the weight off after a very-low-energy diet
Simple advice can reduce the risk of weight regain after a very-low-energy diet: the secret to keeping the weight off is to switch back to normal food gradually, reveals new...
God is attracting more debate than ever | Madeleine Bunting
The New Atheists did not manage to dent the growth of religion across the world. Instead, they only fed our interest in itOne shelf of my bookcase is now groaning under the weight...
A Simple Statement About Complexity
I was working on a paper recently, and my boss included a editing note that got me thinking. The topic dealt with certain circuits in the limbic network of the...
Does Old Age Bring Happiness or Despair?
Getting older is not all bad for many people. Mounting evidence suggests aging may be a key to happiness.
Email invasion causes stress
New technologies have blurred the line between work and home, with workers struggling to keep up, according to a study from the University of Sydney.
You're born a copy but die an original
The older we get, the more different we become. This is the conclusion of a study that followed people from their 70th to their 90th year of life. 'Old people...
Molecular middle managers make more decisions than bosses
Organisms are structured at the molecular level in ways similar to social hierarchies. In some, master genetic regulators call most of the shots, and in others most of life's activities...
Freedom Of Information And UK Law
Freedom Of Information And UK Law The UK's Freedom Of Information Act 2000 - FOIA - has been much in the news and public debate of late, mainly in connection with...
David Eagleman and his 40 afterlives | Interview
Seeing God as a microbe is just one way the neuroscientist's debut novel gets to grips with the afterlife In one of the stories in David Eagleman's first work of fiction, Sum:...