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On the move: Personality influences migration patterns

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Sep 24, 2008 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

When meeting someone for the first time, the second question that is usually asked (following "what's your name?") is "where do you live?". Until recently, it was not apparent just how revealing that answer may be. Although ...





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Researchers find cells move in mysterious ways

Researchers find cells move in mysterious ways (w/ Video)

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Our cells are more like us than we may think. They're sensitive to their environment, poking and prodding deliberately at their surroundings with hand-like feelers and chemical signals as they decide whether ...


Human Mdm2: A new molecular link to late-stage metastatic breast cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A large proportion of late-stage breast cancers that have spread to other parts of the body (metastatic breast cancers) are characterized by overexpression of the protein Mdm2.


Grand Canyon to change 'unfair' permit system

Other Sciences / Other

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

(AP) -- Getting one of the roughly 11,500 permits granted each year to backpack overnight in the Grand Canyon has become so competitive and "unfair" that managers at the national park have decided to change the system.


Ted Turner gets OK for Yellowstone bison on ranch (AP)

Ted Turner gets OK for Yellowstone bison on ranch

Biology / Ecology

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- The head of Montana's wildlife agency has given preliminary approval to a plan calling for 74 bison from Yellowstone National Park to go to billionaire Ted Turner's private ranch.


'Volume dial' neurone may aid spinal disease

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scottish researchers have discovered a new class of neuron that may lead to new therapies for spinal injury.


Moral dilemma scenarios prone to biases

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Picture the following hypothetical scenario: A trolley is headed toward five helpless victims. The trolley can be redirected so that only one person's life is at stake. Psychologists and philosophers have been using moral ...


Using new technique, scientists find 11 times more aftershocks for 2004 quake

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using a technique normally used for detecting weak tremor, scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology discovered that the 2004 magnitude 6 earthquake along the Parkfield section of the San Andreas ...


Fault weaknesses, the center cannot hold for some geologic faults

Fault weaknesses, the center cannot hold for some geologic faults

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Some geologic faults that appear strong and stable, slip and slide like weak faults. Now an international team of researchers has laboratory evidence showing why some faults that "should not" slip are weaker ...


Cisco chief executive John Chambers

Cisco going from Internet plumber to platform

Technology / Business

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Cisco chief executive John Chambers said Tuesday that the computer switching colossus is changing from the Internet's "plumber" to a platform and provider of products for online work and leisure.


5-day delivery no sure cure for postal woes, economist says

Other Sciences / Economics

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Scaling back mail delivery from six days a week to five may be the best bet to stem mounting U.S. Postal Service losses, but could still be a gamble, says a University of Illinois economist who has studied the agency's persistent ...



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