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Marriage is good for the health: global study

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

Dec 15, 2009 | 3.7 / 5 (3) | 1

Despite the barbs of comedians and the spectacular bust-ups documented in the gossip magazines, marriage really is good for you, international research has found.

CERN Colour X-ray Technology Set to Save Lives

Medicine & Health / Research

Dec 15, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Medical studies are soon to start with the MARS scanner, a revolutionary CT scanner developed by the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. The scanner, which incorporates technology developed at the world's ...

Pores finding reveals targets for cancer and degenerative disease

Medicine & Health / Cancer

Dec 18, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

Walter and Eliza Hall Institute scientists have identified a key step in the biological process of programmed cell death, also called apoptosis.

Ecologists sound out new solution for monitoring cryptic species

Biology / Ecology

Nov 27, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

Ecologists have at last worked out a way of using recordings of birdsong to accurately measure the size of bird populations. This is the first time sound recordings from a microphone array have been translated into accurate ...

Are most consumers planners when it comes to time and money? New study shows some benefits

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

Dec 15, 2009 | 4 / 5 (1) | 0

Planning -- regarding money or time -- can bring tangible benefits to consumers. A new study in the Journal of Consumer Research discovered what makes planners tick.

Talking aloud helps solve mathematical problems more quickly, according to a study

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

Dec 18, 2009 | 3.5 / 5 (2) | 0

Those students who think aloud while solving a mathematical problem can solve it faster and have more possibilities of finding the right solution that those who do not do it. Likewise, drawing or making a pictorial representation ...

Bioactive glass nanofibers produced

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

Dec 18, 2009 | 3.8 / 5 (5) | 0

A team of researchers from the University of Vigo, Rutgers University in the United States and Imperial College London, in the United Kingdom, has developed "laser spinning", a novel method of producing glass ...

Researchers discover new 'golden ratios' for female facial beauty

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

Dec 16, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (18) | 11

(PhysOrg.com) -- Beauty is not only in the eye of the beholder but also in the relationship of the eyes and mouth of the beholden. The distance between a woman's eyes and the distance between her eyes and ...

How do we understand written language?

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

Dec 16, 2009 | 4 / 5 (4) | 1

How do we know that certain combinations of letters have certain meanings? Reading and spelling are complex processes, involving several different areas of the brain, but researchers from Johns Hopkins University in the ...