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(AP) -- The University of Nebraska's governing board on Friday voted not to place tighter restrictions on embryonic stem cell research than those outlined under federal guidelines, which were expanded after President Barack Obama took office. http://www.physorg.com/news177924882.html Other Sciences Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:02:55 EST news177924882 (AP) -- Two fingers and a tooth removed from Galileo Galilei's corpse in a Florentine basilica in the 18th century and given up for lost have been found again and will soon be put on display, an Italian museum director said Friday. http://www.physorg.com/news178009204.html Other Sciences Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:00:32 EST news178009204 (AP) -- A Vatican researcher has rekindled the age-old debate over the Shroud of Turin, saying that faint writing on the linen proves it was the burial cloth of Jesus. Experts say the historian may be reading too much into the markings, and they stand by carbon-dating that points to the shroud being a medieval forgery. http://www.physorg.com/news177954765.html Other Sciences Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:53:35 EST news177954765 (PhysOrg.com) -- On the surface, English, Japanese, and Kinande, a member of the Bantu family of languages spoken in the Democratic Republic of Congo, have little in common. It is not just that the vocabularies of these three languages are vastly different; many of their rules of grammar diverge too. http://www.physorg.com/news177940651.html Other Sciences Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:58:56 EST news177940651 A mathematical model has explained some of the remarkable features of mosquito hearing. In particular, the male can hear the faintest beats of the female's wings and yet is not deafened by loud noises. http://www.physorg.com/news177918117.html Other Sciences Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:42:41 EST news177918117 (PhysOrg.com) -- With the severe national recession of the past two years finally behind us, the pace of economic recovery will be slow and unemployment will remain high for quite some time, say economists at the University of Michigan. http://www.physorg.com/news177873896.html Other Sciences Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:00:06 EST news177873896 Merely observing someone publicly blame an individual in an organization for a problem - even when the target is innocent - greatly increases the odds that the practice of blaming others will spread with the tenacity of the H1N1 flu, according to new research from the USC Marshall School of Business and Stanford University. http://www.physorg.com/news177874820.html Other Sciences Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:41:03 EST news177874820 Barack Obama promised to halve poverty within ten years. His Republican opponent, John McCain, vowed to "make the eradication of poverty a top priority of the McCain Administration." Even in the current economic situation, in developed countries, this kind of rhetoric about cutting "poverty" is misleadingly outmoded -because it implicitly suggests that government income transfers can be the vehicle for achieving substantial reductions in poverty. http://www.physorg.com/news177874324.html Other Sciences Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:35:16 EST news177874324 (PhysOrg.com) -- Toronto - The time has come to turn Canada's supplemental pensions jumble into a coherent system with a clear goal and a clear plan to achieve it, according to Keith Ambachtsheer, Director of the Rotman International Centre for Pension Management and an adjunct professor of finance at the Rotman School Management at the University of Toronto. http://www.physorg.com/news177869601.html Other Sciences Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:40:01 EST news177869601 William Shakespeare, who knew a thing or two about words, advised that "An honest tale speeds best, being plainly told." But the exact meaning of plain language isn't always easy to find. Even simple words like "most" and "least" can vary greatly in definition and interpretation, and are difficult to put into precise numbers. http://www.physorg.com/news177852815.html Other Sciences Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:00:02 EST news177852815 A suite of five ancient crocs, including one with teeth like boar tusks and another with a snout like a duck's bill, have been discovered in the Sahara by National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Paul Sereno. The five fossil crocs, three of them newly named species, are remains of a bizarre world of crocs that inhabited the southern land mass known as Gondwana some 100 million years ago. http://www.physorg.com/news177851529.html Other Sciences Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:17:59 EST news177851529 (PhysOrg.com) -- An October survey of 3,800 consumers by the National Foundation for Credit Counseling found that more than two thirds (68 percent) planned to pay in cash for their holiday purchases this year, while only 22 percent planned to charge them to their credit cards. http://www.physorg.com/news177846854.html Other Sciences Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:55:01 EST news177846854 Researchers from Stony Brook University Medical Center in New York have confirmed that Homo floresiensis is a genuine ancient human species and not a descendant of healthy humans dwarfed by disease. Using statistical analysis on skeletal remains of a well-preserved female specimen, researchers determined the "hobbit" to be a distinct species and not a genetically flawed version of modern humans. Details of the study appear in the December issue of Significance, the magazine of the Royal Statistical Society. http://www.physorg.com/news177828426.html Other Sciences Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:48:32 EST news177828426 (PhysOrg.com) -- Decades into the era of two-earner households, the virtues of family-friendly policies are all but universally assumed in the corporate world. But now new research suggests serious potential pitfalls for women in those policies, hazards stemming from persistent misconceptions about women's susceptibility to conflicts between their family commitments and workplace responsibilities. http://www.physorg.com/news177787163.html Other Sciences Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:20:01 EST news177787163 (PhysOrg.com) -- For most Americans, Thanksgiving Day means a flurry of food, family and football. But the real frenzy begins the day after, say researchers at the University of Michigan and Western Michigan University. http://www.physorg.com/news177786938.html Other Sciences Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:16:15 EST news177786938 You can make major discoveries by walking across a field and picking up every loose item you find. Dutch researcher Eva Kaptijn succeeded in discovering - based on 100,000 finds - that the Zerqa Valley in Jordan had been successively inhabited and irrigated for more than 13,000 years. But it was not just communities that built irrigation systems: the irrigation systems also built communities. http://www.physorg.com/news177784568.html Other Sciences Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:00:09 EST news177784568 (PhysOrg.com) -- The Association for Women in Mathematics has named Hannah Alpert, a third-year mathematics major at the University of Chicago, a co-winner of the 2010 Alice T. Schafer Prize for excellence in mathematics by an undergraduate woman. Alpert will receive the award in January at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in San Francisco. http://www.physorg.com/news177780944.html Other Sciences Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:10:01 EST news177780944 (PhysOrg.com) -- Many of us will sit down with our families to a wonderful turkey dinner this Thanksgiving. But statistics increasingly show that Americans consider turkey a year-round staple. http://www.physorg.com/news177781595.html Other Sciences Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:03:17 EST news177781595 In their competition with brick-and-mortar stores, online retailers will do best if they promote the ability to search out and obtain niche products online, according to the Management Insights feature in the current issue of Management Science, the journal of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS). http://www.physorg.com/news177772797.html Other Sciences Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:50:03 EST news177772797 The more prominent and financially successful a corporation becomes, the more likely it is to break the law, according to a new study led by a Michigan State University scholar that challenges previous research. http://www.physorg.com/news177772914.html Other Sciences Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:23:13 EST news177772914 A study by researchers from the Spears School of Business at Oklahoma State University explored the competitive advantage organizations gain when hiring key employees away from a competitor. The loss of a key employee can hinder organizational performance, even in superior organizations that have established advantageous routines via strategic initiatives that set them apart from their competitors, because the lost employees bring strategic knowledge with them to the hiring firm. http://www.physorg.com/news177768841.html Other Sciences Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:14:56 EST news177768841 Although the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 overturned segregation within many U.S. metropolitan communities and districts, school districts were slow to change and have remained segregated between districts. A recent study in Law & Social Inquiry examines how the political process of creating new school districts in Southern communities changed the nature of segregation and seriously affected municipalities and districts now divided along racial lines. http://www.physorg.com/news177768079.html Other Sciences Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:02:03 EST news177768079 (PhysOrg.com) -- The evolutionary history of New Zealand's many extinct flightless moa has been re-written in the first comprehensive study of more than 260 sub-fossil specimens to combine all known genetic, anatomical, geological and ecological information about the unique bird lineage. http://www.physorg.com/news177760311.html Other Sciences Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:00:02 EST news177760311 Tax increases are the only solution to a widening budget crisis that a new study says has landed Illinois among the nation's most financially troubled states, a soon-to-be-released report by a team of University of Illinois economists warns. http://www.physorg.com/news177761361.html Other Sciences Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:30:03 EST news177761361 Consumers who stand on carpeted flooring feel comforted, but they judge products close to them to be less comforting, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research. http://www.physorg.com/news177703962.html Other Sciences Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:00:02 EST news177703962 In recent decades, a new global middle class has exploded, with a total population exceeding one billion people. A new study in the Journal of Consumer Research explores the consumption attitudes of some of these members of the "new class." http://www.physorg.com/news177703931.html Other Sciences Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:20:01 EST news177703931 Consumers will work harder on a task if they're expecting to have to do something difficult at a later time, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research. http://www.physorg.com/news177703849.html Other Sciences Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:10:01 EST news177703849 From simple decisions like "Should I eat this brownie?" to bigger questions such as "Should my next car be a hybrid?" consumers are involved in an inner dialogue that reflects thoughts and perspectives of their different selves, according to the authors of a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research. http://www.physorg.com/news177703735.html Other Sciences Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:10:02 EST news177703735 In today's world, legal issues and controversies are not only tried in the court of law, but also in the "court" of public opinion. However, corporate lawyers tend to separate legal activities from public relations strategies. In addition, they have often viewed media issues as separate from those involved in providing legal advice. http://www.physorg.com/news177692444.html Other Sciences Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:30:01 EST news177692444 If you feel like you're in a losing battle with a triple-chocolate cake, a "mental budget" can help, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research. http://www.physorg.com/news177701774.html Other Sciences Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:00:01 EST news177701774