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Sifaka Male with infant

Scatological clues lead to an intimate view

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Mar 04, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

The guys were all stressed out. There were new infants in the community, and the guys knew from experience that that's when invaders were likely to come and kill the babies, particularly the male infants. ...





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Santa is ready to ride! (w/ Video)

Medicine & Health / Other

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

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of UNC medical experts say that Santa is tanned, rested and ready for the big ride he has coming up.


Why do autumn leaves bother to turn red?

Biology /

created Oct 25, 2007 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (12) | comments 0

Soils may dictate the array of fall colors as much as the trees rooted in them, according to a forest survey out of North Carolina.


Cognitive rehab helps people with acquired brain injury

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jan 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Cognitive rehabilitation after a serious brain injury or stroke can help the mind in much the same way that physical therapy helps the body, according to a new meta-analysis. Because the data suggest that treatment may work ...


R u learning? Health educator experiments with using text messaging to teach

Medicine & Health / Other

created Apr 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Most parents hate text messaging. Adults find it annoying because teenagers text constantly - during dinner, in class, while they are doing homework, while the parent is trying to talk to them. Judith Cornelius, assistant ...


Study shows brief training in meditation may help manage pain

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Living with pain is stressful, but a surprisingly short investment of time in mental training can help you cope.


Deer crashes continue to rise in North Carolina

Biology / Other

created Oct 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Motor vehicles crashes involving deer rose to an all-time high in North Carolina in 2008, even as the total number of motor-vehicle crashes and total vehicle miles driven dropped from the previous year.


No crystal ball necessary: New tool IDs predictable economic variables

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Jul 21, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 4

You don't need a crystal ball to tell you what is going to happen next in the economy. You need a statistical model. A new method from North Carolina State University can help researchers determine which economic variables ...


Environmental manganese good in trace amounts but can correlate to cancer rates

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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

In the first ecological study of its kind in the world, a Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center researcher has uncovered the unique finding that groundwater and airborne manganese in North Carolina correlates with ...


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 ...


Study: Teachers choose schools according to student race

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created May 27, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 2

A study forthcoming in the Journal of Labor Economics suggests that high-quality teachers tend to leave schools that experience inflows of black students. According to the study's author, C. Kirabo Jackson (Cornell Univer ...



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