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Are angry women more like men?

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (13) | comments 4

"Why is it that men can be bastards and women must wear pearls and smile?" wrote author Lynn Hecht Schafran. The answer, according to an article in the Journal of Vision, may lie in our interpretation of facial expressions.


Study uses brain scans to discover how children 'read' faces

Study uses brain scans to discover how children 'read' faces

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Oxford University scientists are using brain-scanning technology to understand how we learn to recognise and 'read' faces as children.


Skin color gives clues to health

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (8) | comments 1

Researchers from the universities of Bristol and St. Andrews in the UK have found that the color of a person's skin affects how healthy and therefore attractive they appear, and have found that diet may be crucial to achieving ...


Ancient Greek Temple

Houses of the rising sun: Research sheds new light on Ancient Greeks

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 4

New research at the University of Leicester has identified scores of Sicilian temples built to face the rising Sun, shedding light on the practices of the Ancient Greeks.


The koala faces starvation as the nutritional quality of eucalyptus leaves declines, the report says

Koalas, penguins at risk of extinction: study

Biology / Ecology

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Climate change threatens the survival of dozens of animal species from the emperor penguin to Australian koalas, according to a report released Monday at the UN climate summit.


Does a placebo gene exist?

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A short time ago, Swedish scientists published a paper suggesting the existence of a genetic disposition to respond to placebo, thus giving rise to debate in the media about a possible "placebo gene." In the current issue ...


Commuters wait on the platform shrouded by fog in London

Climate change not man-made, say majority of Britons: poll

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 15, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (18) | comments 46

Less than half of Britons believes that human activity is to blame for global warming, according to a poll carried out for The Times newspaper and published on Saturday.


Study: Looking young may mean living longer

Medicine & Health / Health

created 21 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Those baby-faced people now have another reason to be smug: a new Danish study says looking young apparently means a longer life.


Bigger and bossier better for fish families

Bigger and bossier better for fish families

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- If you are spending the holidays with big Uncle Frank or bossy Aunt Minnie and wondering whether you would be better off with another family, spare a thought for the humble cichlid fish.


Television control for the remote

Technology / Telecom

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- A cheap way to deliver interactive communications to remote communities has been successfully tested in Brazil and Italy.



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