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Cannabis damages young brains more than originally thought, study finds
The damaging effects of the illicit drug Cannabis on young brains are worse than originally thought, according to a psychiatric researcher. A new study suggests that daily consumption of cannabis...
Sex in university may be better for mature audiences
New university students might be thinking about exploring another rite of passage when they get to campus: the joy of sex. However, depending on their level of maturity, some students...
New support tools point way to better health policymaking
A comprehensive review of evidence-informed health policymaking was recently launched in BioMed Central's journal Health Research Policy and Systems. This free supplement, entitled 'SUPPORT tools for evidence-informed health policymaking' provides...
Dyslexia: Some very smart accomplished people cannot read well
Contrary to popular belief, some very smart, accomplished people cannot read well. This unexpected difficulty in reading in relation to intelligence, education and professional status is called dyslexia, and researchers...
The Truth About Hangovers Revealed in Drunken Study
Bourbon gives you a worse hangover than vodka, but both beverages impair your performance by the same amount, a new study says.
New research explains orchids' sexual trickery
A new study reveals the reason why orchids use sexual trickery to lure insect pollinators. The study, published in the January issue of The American Naturalist, finds that sexual deception...
Racing, shooting and zapping your way to better visual skills
Do your kids want a Wii, a PlayStation or an Xbox 360 this year? This holiday gift season is packed with popular gaming systems and adrenaline-pumping, sharpshooting games. What's a...
Study finds orphanages are viable options for some children
A Duke University study of more than 3,000 orphaned and abandoned children in five Asian and African countries has found that children in institutional orphanages fare as well or better...
Am I too nice to get a girlfriend?
The Guardian's Evolutionary Agony Aunt Carole Jahme shines the cold light of evolutionary psychology on readers' problemsMan up!From Stephen, age 24What can I do to get a girlfriend? I have been in...
Fathers face postnatal depression too | Richard Adams
My new son has turned my life upside down – but for some men becoming a parent can lead to mental illnessSince my son was born at the end of last year...
Turns out, sunshine states really are happiest
WASHINGTON (AP) -- People in sunny, outdoorsy states - Louisiana, Hawaii, Florida - say they're the happiest Americans, and researchers think they know why. A new...
Nonverbal communication of race bias on TV influences viewers' own bias
Subtle patterns of nonverbal behavior that appear on popular television programs influence racial bias among viewers. Black characters elicit especially negative nonverbal responses, such as facial expressions and body language,...
Privacy concerns could limit benefits from real-time data analysis
Society will be unable to take full advantage of real-time data analysis technologies that might improve health, reduce traffic congestion and give scientists new insights into human behavior until it...
Gender divide in children's use of cell phone features, study finds
A recent sociological study finds that the way the kids will use their new phones depends on their gender.
Want to live well? Harvard experts offer pragmatic pointers on getting healthy and staying there
You are what you eat. You're also how you feel, how you exercise, how you sleep, how you handle money, how you relate to people, and what you value.
Letters: The EU must step up in Copenhagen
Gordon Brown is right to warn that failure at Copenhagen is a real possibility (Report, 16 December). If the talks do fail, it will be in no small part down to the...
YouTube music label means all artists are with the bandwidth
Craig Benzine had weathered almost 10 years with his band, Chicago-based indie rockers Driftless Pony Club -- self-releasing two albums along the way -- with no luck.
Pass the Sorghum, Caveman
Stone age tools suggest that humans may have begun eating cereals much earlier than previously thought. [Read more]
Year's Best Gift Could Be A Job From Santa
In this year's myriad discussions of stimulus and jobs programs, no one has yet publicly raised the idea to ask Santa Claus to take Christmas Eve off. Outsourcing his job...
About 25 percent of Arabs in Greater Detroit reported abuse post Sept. 11
Ann Arbor, Mich. -- One quarter of Detroit-area Arab Americans reported personal or familial abuse because of race, ethnicity or religion since 9/11, leading to higher odds of...
Elpida Completes Development of 65nm XS Version 1-Gigabit DDR3 SDRAM
Elpida Memory, Japan's leading global supplier of Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), today announced that it had completed development of a 65nm XS extra-shrink version 1-Gigabit DDR3 SDRAM that is...
Research finds happiest US States match a million Americans' own happiness states
New research by the UK's University of Warwick and Hamilton College in the US into the happiness levels of a million individual US citizens have revealed their personal happiness...
Probing Question: Is the death penalty on the decline in America?
In November, the Commonwealth of Virginia executed John A. Muhammad, the infamous `D.C. sniper` responsible for 10 murders seven years earlier. On the eve of his execution, a Washington Post...
Gadgets: Great gadgets, as a gift or not
Officially this is not another gift guide. Instead I'd rather consider it the first of two roundups either of products I just haven't gotten to this year or some I...
Miramichi launches autism registry
Miramichi has launched a new autism registry for first responders, which is believed to be a first in Canada.
China rapidly catching up in research impact
Data from a recent Thomson Reuters study show that Chinese research output has increased from just over 20,000 papers in 1998 to nearly 112,000 in 2008.
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