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Are the effects of pornography negligible?

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (19) | comments 5

A Université de Montréal researcher, funded by the Interdisciplinary Research Center on Family Violence and Violence Against Women, has launched a new study to examine the effects of pornography on men. "We ...


Gay, bisexual men who have social anxiety tend to engage in risky sex

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A Ryerson University HIV researcher has found a link between social anxiety and unsafe sexual activities among gay and bisexual men, some of whom are HIV-positive.


Distrust of Men Doesn't Keep Low-Income Mothers from Romantic Unions

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Contrary to popular scholarship that attributes low rates of marriage among low-income mothers to their general distrust of men, a new study led by a Duke University sociologist finds that gender distrust ...


Stopping rape as an object of war

Stopping rape as an object of war

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

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

(PhysOrg.com) -- It is a disturbing truth that sexual- and gender-based violence (SGBV) is used as a war tactic in developing nations. Silvia Dominguez, assistant professor of sociology at Northeastern University, ...


Poll finds sexting common among young people (AP)

Poll finds sexting common among young people

Technology / Other

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(AP) -- Think your kid is not "sexting"? Think again. Sexting - sharing sexually explicit photos, videos and chat by cell phone or online - is fairly commonplace among young people, despite sometimes grim ...


Researchers discover how a brain hormone controls insect metamorphosis

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A team of University of Minnesota researchers have discovered how PTTH, a hormone produced by the brain, controls the metamorphosis of juvenile insects into adults.


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Right/left handedness of snails changed in the lab

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Like most animals, snails have either left- or right-handed asymmetry (chirality), both internally and externally, and the handedness is hereditary. A new study has for the first time found ...


Study shows US lags behind in transit safety programs for female riders

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study by UCLA professor Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris documents the gap between women's transit safety needs and programs in the U.S. that respond to them.


First Pump-Probe Experiment at LCLS Completed

First Pump-Probe Experiment at Linac Coherent Light Source Completed

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (12) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The first experiment using the Linac Coherent Light Source to illuminate molecules via a "pump-probe" technique has been completed by an international team of more than 30 scientists from ...


High-risk women reluctant to take tamoxifen to prevent breast cancer, study finds

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Even when women at high-risk of breast cancer are well-informed about the risks and benefits of using the drug tamoxifen for prevention, only 6 percent said they were likely to take it.



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