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Ethnic pride key to black teen mental health

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 2.6 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Ethnic pride may be as important as self-esteem to the mental health of young African-American adolescents, according to a new study in the Nov/Dec issue of the journal Child Development.


Computer identifies authentic Van Gogh

Computer identifies authentic Van Gogh

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Dutch researcher Igor Berezhnoy has developed computer algorithms to support art historians and other art experts in their visual assessment of paintings. His digital technology is capable ...


Emotions an overlooked key to whistle-blowing, study says

Other Sciences / Economics

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

A gut-level connection with workers may be the key to encouraging whistle-blowing that could chip away at an estimated $652 billion lost to fraud annually by U.S. businesses, an ongoing University of Illinois study suggests.


Newly discovered mechanism allows cells to change state

Newly discovered mechanism allows cells to change state

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Cells are not static. They can transform themselves over time — but change can have dangerous implications. Benign cells, for example, can suddenly change into cancerous ones.


NIST develops experimental validation tool for cell phone forensics

Technology / Software

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

Viewers of TV dramas don't focus on the technology behind how a forensics crime team tracks a terrorist or drug ring using cell phone data, but scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology do. NIST researchers ...


Study: Race, class and gender shape religion's effect on American voters

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- How Americans vote is strongly linked to their religious identities, but it is not an independent influence that transcends race, socio-economic class and gender, reports a new Cornell study.


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 3.5 / 5 (4) | 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. ...


The battle of the sexes

Ovaries must suppress their inner male

Biology / Biotechnology

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (9) | comments 0

For an ovary to remain an ovary, the female organ has to continuously suppress its inner capacity to become male. That's the conclusion of a study in the December 11th issue of the journal Cell revealing that t ...


Facebook profiles capture true personality, according to new psychology research

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Online social networks such as Facebook are being used to express and communicate real personality, instead of an idealized virtual identity, according to new research from psychologist Sam Gosling at The University of Texas ...


Scientists take a step towards uncovering the histone code

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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

Researchers at Emory University School of Medicine have determined the structures of two enzymes that customize histones, the spool-like proteins around which DNA coils inside the cell.



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