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Look Before You Leap: New Study Examines Self-control
Reckless decision-making can lead to dire consequences when it comes to food, credit cards, or savings. What's the key to making good decisions? A new study outlines a novel method...
Slide Rule Sense: Amazonian Indigenous Culture Demonstrates A Universal Mapping Of Number Onto Space
The ability to map numbers onto a line, a foundation of all mathematics, is universal, says a study published in Science, but the form of this universal mapping is not...
PHOTO IN THE NEWS: "Uncontacted" Tribe Seen in Amazon
New photos of reportedly uncontacted, painted Indians firing arrows at a plane could help protect the rain forest and its peoples, native-rights activists hope.
All Bets Are Off: Office Pools Lead to Unhappiness
Office pools for the NCAA basketball tournament or Oscar contests are fun, right? Not according to the Journal of Consumer Research. read more
Reporting from science conferences
Conferences can provide good news stories if you plan ahead, do your research, and mingle with the delegates, says K. S. Jayaraman.
University Director's Project Earns ENERGY GLOBE Award
An Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) administrator's novel scheme for replenishing forests in the Republic of Armenia while simultaneously fighting poverty in the former Soviet Union, is one of the...
Nurses' union opposes moving staff between hospitals
The P.E.I nurses union says it's against a provincial plan to move nursing staff between Island hospitals in order to fill a staffing shortage.
Police find stolen computer device containing health records
New Glasgow police say they've recovered a computer memory stick containing the personal information of 150 people who used mental-health services in Pictou County.
Ecosystem destruction costing hundreds of billions a year
The steeply accelerating decline of the natural world is already costing hundreds of billions of pounds a year, say leading economists
Scientists move a step closer to mind-reading
They have developed a computer model that can identify the words a subject is thinking from an MRI brain scan
Schools eyeing virtual campuses
An Internet fantasy universe teeming with faux worlds devoted to socializing and video games is expanding to include virtual classrooms and universities.
Dell shares get boost from strong earnings report
(AP) -- Growth in Asia and strong sales of notebook computers helped Dell Inc. beat Wall Street expectations for first-quarter sales and profit. That strong report pushed shares of...
Qualcomm bets on mobile new-age version of old-time TV
US wireless technology titan Qualcomm is rolling a new-age version of old-time broadcast television onto what analysts say is an unpredictable but inevitable mobile TV landscape.
Safety tips for travelers' protections
(AP) -- If you're traveling overseas, try to leave your computer at home. If you must have it, put only a few files on it and leave as many...
WHO slams tobacco industry's youth focus
MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- Tobacco companies are targeting the half billion young people in the Asia Pacific region by linking smoking to glamorous and attractive lifestyles, the U.N. World Health...
Courts Overturn 2 Vioxx Verdicts Against Merck
The major victories for Merck pushed the litigation over Vioxx closer to conclusion and highlighted the difficulty that plaintiffs’ lawyers are having in winning lawsuits against big drug companies.
Demand for biofuels boosting food prices
ROME, May 29 (UPI) -- The United Nations said food prices are being pushed higher by weather-related crop shortages and high demand for biofuels.
New Report Explores Different Production Methods for Rice Fortification in Developing Nations
A new report identifies the technical and economic feasibility of introducing cost-effective rice fortification programs in developing nations. The new report notes that the addition of essential nutrients through...
Scientists take the pop out of tiny bubbles
CHICAGO (Reuters) - The trouble with tiny bubbles is they pop, but U.S. researchers have made bubbles that last as long as a year -- a finding that could improve...
Researchers to examine video games and health
(AP) -- Why fight the proliferation of video games if you can use them to improve the nation's health? Health researchers are looking at ways that people's obsession with...
Google Health: A time saver, but privacy slayer?
Two giants in the online world, Microsoft and Google, have released web-based applications to manage health records. And while these programs could make managing your health records easier, experts wonder...
Anatomy of a Hack
Over the long weekend, the servers of the Internet TV site Revision3.com were brought down by what is called a "denial-of-service" attack (DoS)—one of the most common methods used to...
Green firms rewarded by financial markets
When a company improves its environmental performance, it is common to think that the accompanying economic improvements are based on the company's more efficient use of resources. However,
Buzz Lightyear Becomes Real Space Ranger
Buzz Lightyear will ride the space shuttle to promote science education.
Court to decide if chimps are people, too
Matthew, a 26-year-old chimp, is headed to court in Europe as part of a human effort to classify him as a person.
NIH Awards $20 Million CTSA Grant to Scripps Translational Science Institute
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced today that Scripps Translational Science Institute (STSI) is one of 14 research centers to receive a highly competitive $20 million Clinical and...
Iomega Intros eGo 1TB Desktop Hard Drives
Iomega Corp. today announced that stylish data security has reached the 1TB plateau with the worldwide introduction of the Iomega eGo 1TB Desktop Hard Drives.
Hackers take over Comcast portal for several hours
(AP) -- Hackers took over and defaced Comcast Corp.'s Web portal for several hours overnight, leaving a cryptic message on the site that the company's 14.1 million subscribers use...