Psychologists explore public policy and effects of media violence on children
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 21, 2007 |
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Although hundreds of studies link media violence to aggression in children and adolescents, most public policy attempts to reduce children's media violence exposure in the U.S. have failed. Efforts to restrict children's ...
A helping hand from the grandparents
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Dec 21, 2007 |
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A team of scientists led by the University of East Anglia has discovered the existence of ‘grandparent’ helpers in the Seychelles warbler – the first time this behaviour, which rarely occurs except in humans, has been observed ...
Songbirds offer clues to highly practiced motor skills in humans
Dec 21, 2007 |
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The melodious sound of a songbird may appear effortless, but his elocutions are actually the result of rigorous training undergone in youth and maintained throughout adulthood. His tune has virtually “crystallized” by maturity. ...
Shopping on-line reduces a midnight clear's carbon dioxide
Dec 21, 2007 |
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Holiday shoppers who do most of their gift gathering on-line are saving more than wear and tear on their toes. They are also trimming emissions of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere by nearly half a million ...
New Wireless Devices Could Help Consumers Keep Track of their Vital Signs
Dec 21, 2007 |
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Forget about videogames or driving directions. Paul Blair thinks the next ‘killer’ mobile applications will be for monitoring your health. The Calit2 staff researcher should know; he is working on a range ...
Predator pressures maintain bees' social life
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Dec 21, 2007 |
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The complex organisation of some insect societies is thought to have developed to such a level that these animals can no longer survive on their own. Research published in the online open access journal BMC Ev ...
How one pest adapted to life in the dark
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Dec 21, 2007 |
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A type of beetle that lives its entire life burrowing through stored grain has been found to lack full colour vision, and what’s more the vision it does have breaks the rules. Most other insects have trichromatic vision – ...
Food quality can re-wire young appetite control
Dec 21, 2007 |
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A University of Alberta researcher has discovered evidence that suggests the part of our brain that controls appetite changes along with our diets during infancy - a fact that could lead to a greater understanding of childhood ...
Light powered platinum more targeted and 80 times more powerful than similar cancer treatments
Dec 21, 2007 |
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Researchers from the Universities of Warwick, Edinburgh, Dundee and the Czech Republic’s Institute of Biophysics have discovered a new light-activated platinum-based compound that is up to 80 times more powerful than other ...
Tyson to change 'no antibiotic' labels
Dec 21, 2007 |
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Tyson Foods said it has reached an agreement with the U.S. Department of Agriculture in a dispute over the labeling of poultry products.
You can teach an old dog new tricks: anti-malarial prevents cancer in mice
Dec 21, 2007 |
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New data generated by a team of researchers from St Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, and Scripps Research Institute, Jupiter, have indicated that the antimalarial drug chloroquine effectively prevents cancer in ...
NASA Delays Mars Scout Mission to 2013
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 21, 2007 |
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NASA announced today that the next mission in the Mars Scout program, originally planned for launch in 2011, is now targeted for launch in 2013. The schedule slip is because of an organizational conflict of interest that ...
Workplace, community engagement key to interracial friendship
Dec 21, 2007 |
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People who are involved in community organizations and activities and who socialize with their co-workers are much more likely to have friends of another race than those who do not, according to a landmark study of interracial ...
Sea cucumber protein used to inhibit development of malaria parasite
Dec 21, 2007 |
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Scientists have genetically engineered a mosquito to release a sea-cucumber protein into its gut which impairs the development of malaria parasites, according to research out today (21 December) in PLoS Pathogens. Resear ...
Cancer stem cells: know thine enemy
Dec 21, 2007 |
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Stem cells -- popularly known as a source of biological rejuvenation -- may play harmful roles in the body, specifically in the growth and spread of cancer. Amongst the wildly dividing cells of a tumor, scientists have located ...
