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Study challenges bird-from-dinosaur theory of evolution - was it the other way around?

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences provides yet more evidence that birds did not descend from ground-dwelling theropod dinosaurs, experts say, a ...

Women on board: Does forced diversity hurt firm performance?

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(PhysOrg.com) -- New SEC rules will require public firms to disclose what role, if any, diversity plays in appointing members to their corporate boards, but University of Michigan researchers say any forced restructuring ...

Baseball teams with more international players draw more fans, profits

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Ticket revenue increases by roughly half of a million dollars for each international player added to a Major League Baseball team, showing a sharp swing in fan favoritism for internationally diverse teams, ...

Study on 'untouchables' can help end human rights abuses, says Notre Dame scholar

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(PhysOrg.com) -- The largest-ever study on the Dalits -- the so-called "untouchables" of India -- reveals widespread caste-based discrimination in every aspect of daily life, according to Christian Davenport, professor of ...

People out and about make cities secure

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Young people who have experienced threats and violence feel more insecure than others in urban public spaces, especially when alone. This is one conclusion from researchers at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

Morality research sheds light on the origins of religion

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

Feb 08, 2010 | 4.6 / 5 (20) | 30 |

The details surrounding the emergence and evolution of religion have not been clearly established and remain a source of much debate among scholars. Now, an article published by Cell Press in the journal Trends in Cognitive Sc ...

New report argues that charter schools' political success is a civil rights failure

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

Feb 08, 2010 | 3.3 / 5 (4) | 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- Charter schools continue to stratify students by race, class, and possibly language, and are more racially isolated than traditional public schools in virtually every state and large metropolitan area in ...

Democracy put to the test

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

Feb 08, 2010 | 3.8 / 5 (4) | 4

Developing countries that free themselves from authoritarian governments are often called “experiments in democracy.” But what happens when a researcher runs an actual field experiment in democracy? A novel ...

Turkeys domesticated not once, but twice

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

Feb 08, 2010 | 4.7 / 5 (3) | 0

Turkeys, the only domesticated animals from the New World that are now used globally, were actually domesticated twice -- once in Mesoamerica as was previously believed and once in what is now the southwestern ...

Thousands of dinosaur footprints uncovered in China

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

Feb 07, 2010 | 4.4 / 5 (18) | 0

Archaeologists in China have uncovered more than 3,000 dinosaur footprints, state media reported, in an area said to be the world's largest grouping of fossilised bones belonging to the ancient animals.

Renewable oil companies

Other Sciences / Economics

Feb 05, 2010 | 1.4 / 5 (9) | 3

The entry of oil companies into the realm of renewable energy could present major obstacles for the development of a sustainable economy that is not based on carbon resources, according to a report in the International Jo ...

Explorers' century-old whisky found in Antarctic

Other Sciences / Other

Feb 05, 2010 | 4.7 / 5 (6) | 0

(AP) -- This Scotch has been on the rocks for a century.

Watch the Super Bowl and buy some stocks?

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Feb 05, 2010 | not rated yet | 0

Rice professors say publicly traded companies can expect increase in stock sales after big ad buys.

Scientists complete color palette of a dinosaur for the first time

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

Feb 04, 2010 | 5 / 5 (22) | 1 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- Deciphering microscopic clues hidden within fossils, scientists have uncovered the vibrant colors that adorned a feathered dinosaur extinct for 150 million years, a Yale University-led research ...

Fossils show earliest animal trails

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Feb 04, 2010 | 5 / 5 (8) | 0 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- Trails found in rocks dating back 565 million years are thought to be the earliest evidence of animal locomotion ever found, Oxford University scientists report.

Ancient remains put teeth into Barker hypothesis

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Feb 04, 2010 | 4.5 / 5 (4) | 1 |

Ancient human teeth are telling secrets that may relate to modern-day health: Some stressful events that occurred early in development are linked to shorter life spans.

Researcher to track spread of disease, malware and power outages

Other Sciences / Mathematics

Feb 04, 2010 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

An assistant professor with the Virginia Tech College of Engineering has won a $750,000 federal grant to formulate a mathematical framework that can track the spread of pandemics among populations and malware ...

Democratic, republican presidents have had similar economic records, says political scientist

Other Sciences / Economics

Feb 04, 2010 | 5 / 5 (3) | 0

In his recent book "Unequal Democracy," noted Princeton political scientist Larry Bartels reaches the controversial conclusion that Democratic presidents have generally done a better job in handling the economy.