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Researchers discover new 'golden ratios' for female facial beauty

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

Dec 16, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (23) | 14

(PhysOrg.com) -- Beauty is not only in the eye of the beholder but also in the relationship of the eyes and mouth of the beholden. The distance between a woman's eyes and the distance between her eyes and ...

Researcher explains mystery of golden ratio

Other Sciences / Mathematics

Dec 21, 2009 | 2.6 / 5 (20) | 7

The Egyptians supposedly used it to guide the construction the Pyramids. The architecture of ancient Athens is thought to have been based on it. Fictional Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon tried to unravel ...

Biology, training and profit sharing make best traders

Other Sciences / Mathematics

Nov 25, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (2) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cambridge researchers have identified a group of traders consistently able to outperform the market, even during the credit crisis.

Extraterrestrial platinum was 'stirred' into the Earth

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Jul 30, 2009 | 4.6 / 5 (10) | 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- A research program aimed at using platinum as an exploration guide for nickel has for the first time been able to put a time scale on the planet’s large-scale convection processes.

Selective sex abortion causes 32 million excess males in China

Medicine & Health / Other

Apr 10, 2009 | 4 / 5 (7) | 18

Selective abortion in favour of males has left China with 32 million more boys than girls, creating an imbalance that will endure for decades, an investigation released on Friday warned.

Nanowire technology could make LCDs brighter, thinner, and cheaper

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

Oct 03, 2008 | 4.5 / 5 (57) | 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- As nanoimprinting technology advances, scientists have shown that using nano-sized polarizers could significantly enhance the contrast ratio in liquid crystal displays (LCDs). For consumers, ...

Why an Hourglass Figure isn't Always Perfect for Women

Biology /

Dec 03, 2008 | 4.3 / 5 (29) | 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Having an imperfect body may come with some substantial benefits, according to a new article in the December issue of Current Anthropology.

A boy for every girl? Not even close

Biology / Plants & Animals

Sep 10, 2009 | 2.3 / 5 (3) | 0

In a perfect world, for every boy there would of course be a girl, but a new study shows that actual sex ratios can sometimes sway very far from that ideal. In fact, the male-to-female ratio of one tropical butterfly has ...

Financial restructuring in fresh-start chapter 11 reorganizations

Other Sciences / Economics

Nov 30, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

The effectiveness of the existing bankruptcy code has long been a source of vigorous debate. More and more lately, high-profile firms like General Motors, Enron, and K-Mart are seeking protection from creditors through Chapter ...

LG & Sony: See Visions of OLED TVs On Christmas Morning 09

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

Apr 22, 2009 | 3.7 / 5 (7) | 9

Slow down or low down financial catastrophe is not going to spoil the high-end entertainment products industry next Christmas. LG confirmed its plans to deck the halls with an OLED display by Christmas 2009. ...

Computer model documents the history of the West Antarctic ice sheet

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Aug 28, 2009 | 3.4 / 5 (10) | 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- One major threat of planetary warming is the melting of the great polar ice sheets, and the resulting rise in global sea level. Particularly worrisome to researchers is the fragility of the ...

Walking often and far reduces risks in heart patients

Medicine & Health / Health

May 11, 2009 | 4 / 5 (1) | 0

An exercise program that burns a lot of calories reduced cardiac risk factors better than standard cardiac rehabilitation in overweight coronary patients, researchers report in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart As ...

Zooming in on data

Technology / Software

Nov 03, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Companies of all sizes are struggling with the growing flood of data and information. Staff can quickly lose sight of impending risks or hidden opportunities. Now a new zoom software is helping users get ...

Scientists uncover miscalculation in geological undersea record

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Sep 10, 2008 | 4.5 / 5 (28) | 3

The precise timing of the origin of life on Earth and the changes in life during the past 4.5 billion years has been a subject of great controversy for the past century. The principal indicator of the amount of organic carbon ...