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White House rhetoric is important in forming foreign policy opinions

White House rhetoric is important in forming foreign policy opinions

Other Sciences / Other

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Surveys have shown that the public pays little attention to foreign policy, but politicians regularly cite the importance of public support for military actions overseas. Now, a new study has found that these ...


Can thinking of a loved one reduce your pain?

Can thinking of a loved one reduce your pain?

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- "The very thought of you ... the mere idea of you" -- from the song "The Very Thought of You" by Ray Noble. Can the mere thought of your loved one reduce your pain?


NJIT receives funding to improve Big Bear Telescope, study solar energy

NJIT receives funding to improve Big Bear Telescope, study solar energy

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 1

NJIT researchers are at work on many scientific and technological frontiers. The National Science Foundation has recently provided support that totals nearly $4.3 million for the diverse efforts of the following ...


University of Colorado butterfly payload to launch Nov. 16 on space shuttle

Butterfly payload to launch Nov. 16 on space shuttle

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

When NASA's space shuttle Atlantis launches for the International Space Station on Nov. 16 it will carry a University of Colorado at Boulder butterfly experiment that will be monitored by thousands of K-12 ...


New Data Support Use Of Instant Run-Off Voting

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- New data collected as part of a North Carolina State University study during the 2009 municipal election in Hendersonville, N.C., show that voters prefer instant run-off voting (IRV) to traditional voting ...


39 percent of Britons polled said climate change had not yet been proven to be man-made

Half of Britons deny climate change man-made: poll

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 06, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (10) | comments 23

Almost half of Britons do not believe human behaviour is the main cause of global warming, a new poll showed Sunday, a day before world leaders begin crunch climate talks in Copenhagen.


A closer look at the Hudson Canyon shows why the canyon is critical for fish

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

A series of newly discovered pits in the bottom of the Hudson Canyon, 100 miles southeast of New York Harbor, may be a key ingredient for the abundant and diverse marine ecosystem in and around the canyon, according to research ...


Physicist Jack Harris Is Honored by DARPA as One of Nation's 'Rising Stars'

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Jack Harris, an associate professor of physics, has received one of this year's Young Faculty Awards (YFA) from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). He is one of 33 "rising stars" across ...


Research backs theory on autism, schizophrenia

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (11) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- New research by Simon Fraser University evolutionary biologist Bernard Crespi reinforces his theory that autism and schizophrenia are diametric or opposite conditions based on genes.


Goddard Team Develops New Carriers for ISS

Goddard Team Develops New Carriers for ISS

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

In a partnership that exemplifies the One NASA theme, Goddard Space Flight Center engineers teamed up with the External Payloads Group at Johnson Space Center and the ISS Payload Ground Processing support ...



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