News tagged with special section


Looking past the 'down low:' New research

Medicine & Health / Other

created Sep 23, 2008 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (5) | comments 1

The popular media in the U.S. have focused too much on moral issues surrounding black bisexual men who do not disclose their same-sex behaviors to female lovers, otherwise known as men "on the Down Low," with this focus creating ...





Search results for special section


Closing in on dark matter?

Physicists detect two candidate dark matter interactions, but say the data are not conclusive

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 18, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (14) | comments 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have spent decades searching for the elusive material known as dark matter, which is believed to make up 25 percent of the universe. On Thursday, Dec. 17, a team of physicists including ...


Calif. space tourism firm launches S. Korea deal

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- A California company developing a rocket plane for space tourism announced Thursday that it has an agreement with a nonprofit group in South Korea to conduct launches in that nation.


Want to live well? Harvard experts offer pragmatic pointers on getting healthy and staying there

Want to live well? Harvard experts offer pragmatic pointers on getting healthy and staying there

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (9) | comments 1

You are what you eat. You're also how you feel, how you exercise, how you sleep, how you handle money, how you relate to people, and what you value.


Year's Best Gift Could Be A Job From Santa

Year's Best Gift Could Be A Job From Santa

Other Sciences / Other

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In this year's myriad discussions of stimulus and jobs programs, no one has yet publicly raised the idea to ask Santa Claus to take Christmas Eve off. Outsourcing his job by asking mere mortals to deliver ...


Monument lifted from Cleopatra's underwater city (AP)

Monument lifted from Cleopatra's underwater city

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(AP) -- Archaeologists on Thursday hoisted a 9-ton temple pylon from the waters of the Mediterranean that was part of the palace complex of the fabled Cleopatra before it became submerged for centuries in ...


Heme channel found

Heme channel found

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In some ways a cell in your body or an organelle in that cell is like an ancient walled town. Life inside either depends critically on the intelligence of the gatekeepers.


Want privacy on Facebook? Here is how to get some (AP)

Want privacy on Facebook? Here is how to get some

Technology / Internet

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(AP) -- Over the past week, Facebook has been nudging its users - first gently, then firmly - to review and update their privacy settings.


Ardi

Science's breakthrough of the year: Uncovering 'Ardi'

Other Sciences / Other

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 2

The research that brought to light the fossils of Ardipithecus ramidus, a hominid species that lived 4.4 million years ago in what is now Ethiopia, has topped Science's list of this year's most significant s ...


Facebook mines Census data to track its diversifying users

Technology / Internet

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In its earliest days, Facebook was primarily a white and Asian phenomenon. No more. In the first-ever study of the race and ethnicity of its U.S. users, Facebook said Wednesday that blacks and Latinos have joined the social ...


Exposure to young triggers new neuron creation in females exhibiting maternal behavior

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Maternal behavior itself can trigger the development of new neurons in the maternal brain independent of whether the female was pregnant or has nursed, according to a study released by researchers at Tufts University's Cummings ...



List of search results for special section