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Myth about 'dirty old men' supported by science

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 04, 2008 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (53) | comments 10

Middle-aged men want younger women, often touting their intelligence and their high income. This is shown in research at Gothenburg University and Oxford University that studied 400 lonely hearts ads to see how men and women ...





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Researchers shed new light on connection between brain and loneliness

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Feb 15, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (10) | comments 7

Social isolation affects how people behave as well as how their brains operate, a study at the University of Chicago shows.


Loneliness can be contagious

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 4

Loneliness, like a bad cold, can spread among groups of people, research at the University of Chicago, the University of California-San Diego and Harvard shows.


Researchers examine developing hearts in chickens to find solutions for human heart abnormalities (Video)

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

When it is head versus heart, the heart comes first. The heart is the first organ to develop and is critical in supplying blood to the rest of the body. Yet, little is known about the complex processes that regulate the heartbeat. ...


It started with a squeak: Moonlight serenade helps lemurs pick mates of the right species

It started with a squeak: Moonlight serenade helps lemurs pick mates of the right species

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created May 07, 2008 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Lonely hearts columns testify that finding a partner can be hard enough, but at least most human beings can be fairly certain that when we do we have got one of the right species. Things aren’t so simple for ...


New insights into cardiac aging

Medicine & Health / Research

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

Investigators at Burnham Institute for Medical Research (Burnham) have found that the conserved protein d4eBP modulates cardiac aging in Drosophila (fruit flies). The team also found that d4eBP, which binds to the protein ...


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The Beatles rock music invasion reborn in videogame

Technology / Software

created Aug 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

The Beatles rock-and-roll invasion that conquered the music scene in the 1960s has been reborn in a hotly-anticipated assault on the world of videogames.


A warm TV can drive away feelings of loneliness and rejection

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Apr 22, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Not all technology meets human needs, and some technologies provide only the illusion of having met your needs.


Hertfordshire team wins Humanoid Simulation League in Robot Football Cup

Technology / Engineering

created May 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The Bold Hearts, a student team from the University of Hertfordshire, has just won the Humanoid Simulation League in the Robocup German Open 2009.  The team is now preparing for the Robocup World Championships in Austria, ...


Scientists achieve repair of injured heart muscle in lab tests of stem cells

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 25, 2008 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (10) | comments 0

Researchers at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC have been able to effectively repair damaged heart muscle in an animal model using a novel population of stem cells they discovered that is derived from human skeletal ...


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First genetic link between reptile and human heart evolution

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Sep 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 8

Scientists at the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease have traced the evolution of the four-chambered human heart to a common genetic factor linked to the development of hearts in turtles and other ...



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