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Psychological headwind keeps women, minorities from sprinting ahead of their peers, study finds

(PhysOrg.com) -- Let's say a white student and a black student both score 1020 on their SATs. They're performing right around the national average, so based on their scores it stands to reason they're both typical students ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Feb 24, 2009 | popularity 2.6 / 5 (5) | comments 5




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Clinical trial teaches binge eaters to toss away cravings

Of 190 million obese Americans, approximately 10-15 percent engage in harmful binge eating. During single sittings, these over-eaters consume large servings of high-caloric foods. Sufferers contend with weight gain and depression ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Increasing healthy food options makes economic sense

If there is an obvious truth one can learn from perusing the various dining options on Lehigh’s sprawling Asa Packer campus—from the University Center and Rathbone Hall to the sorority and fraternity houses on “the ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Putting lab life under the lens

Scott Stern doesn’t work in a laboratory or have a degree in the hard sciences. You’ll never find him using a genome sequencer or an MRI scanner. Yet he knows more about some aspects of science than ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists identify most lethal known species of prion protein

Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute have identified a single prion protein that causes neuronal death similar to that seen in "mad cow" disease, but is at least 10 times more ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Barriers fall between TV, Internet

You say TV, I say Internet. Toe-mate-o, toe-mah-to.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers study parenting behaviors of stressed-out birds

Imagine an environment filled with wind, storms, predators, noise, and limited food and shelter. Then imagine providing and caring for a tiny egg or peeping baby bird in those conditions. The tree ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

PET techniques provide more accurate diagnosis, prognosis in challenging breast cancer cases

In two new studies featured in the February issue of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine, researchers are revealing how molecular imaging can be used to solve mysteries about difficult cases of breast cancer. One article focuse ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Pew study: Facebook users get more than they give

(AP) -- The goody-two-shoes among us say it's better to give than to receive. That's not true for the average Facebook user, though.

Technology / Internet

created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Compromises between quantity and quality common in animals: do the same holds for plants, flowers?

Most creatures face compromises when they reproduce — the more energy they devote to having lots of babies, the less they can invest in each one. But do the same tradeoffs hold true for plants? Biologists ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Impoverished schools, parent education key factors in student weight

Attending a financially poor school may have more of an effect on unhealthy adolescent weight than family poverty, according to Penn State sociologists.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1


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