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Birth order affects cooperation in later life

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 2 weblog

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new scientific study has found that at least some of the stereotypes associated with older siblings are true: the oldest sibling is often less trusting, less cooperative, and less reciprocating ...


One of the most important problems in materials science solved

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Feb 23, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (24) | comments 39

Together with three colleagues Professor Peter Oppeneer of Uppsala University has explained the hitherto unsolved mystery in materials science known as 'the hidden order' - how a new phase arises and why. This discovery ...


When using gestures, rules of grammar remain the same

When using gestures, rules of grammar remain the same

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jun 30, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (46) | comments 8

The mind apparently has a consistent way of ordering an event that defies the order in which subjects, verbs, and objects typically appear in languages, according to research at the University of Chicago.





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A facial expression is worth a thousand words

A facial expression is worth a thousand words

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 28, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Moving pictures are more suitable to interpret the mood of a person than a static photograph.


Do computers understand art?

Do computers understand art?

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Dec 23, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A team of researchers from the University of Girona and the Max Planck Institute in Germany has shown that some mathematical algorithms provide clues about the artistic style of a painting. The composition ...


FCC seeking to close programming access loophole

Technology / Telecom

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

(AP) -- Federal regulators are seeking to close a loophole that allows cable TV operators to withhold sporting events and other popular programming that they own from rival providers such as satellite TV.


Teenagers use violence to boost their social standing

Teenagers use violence to boost their social standing

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

A new study looks in depth at the social relationships between male and female teenagers, relational violence, and psycho-social adjustment factors such as loneliness, self-esteem and satisfaction with life. ...


Entropy alone creates complex crystals from simple shapes, study shows

Entropy alone creates complex crystals from simple shapes, study shows

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (21) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a study that elevates the role of entropy in creating order, research led by the University of Michigan shows that certain pyramid shapes can spontaneously organize into complex quasicrystals.


Syntax in our primate cousins

Syntax in our primate cousins

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A study carried out in Ivory Coast has shown that monkeys of a certain forest-dwelling species called Campbell's monkeys emit six types of alert calls. The primates combine these calls into ...


Researchers discover a way to strengthen proteins

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Proteins, which perform such vital roles in our bodies as building and maintaining tissues and regulating cellular processes, are a finicky lot. In order to work properly, they must be folded just so, yet many proteins readily ...


Argonne scientists use bacteria to power simple machines (w/ Video)

Argonne scientists use bacteria to power simple machines (w/ Video)

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory and Northwestern University, Evanston, have discovered that common bacteria can turn microgears when suspended in ...


Student ordered to destroy downloaded music files

Technology / Internet

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(AP) -- A college student found guilty of copyright infringement has to destroy files he illegally downloaded years ago.


Where are the female scientists in research articles?

Where are the female scientists in research articles?

Other Sciences / Other

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (5) | comments 2

A recent research article published in the journal Scientometrics by a team from the University of Extremadura (UEX) has proved something that was already obvious to its scientific community - the extreme imbala ...



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