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Are You Getting Enough Sleep? Why Women Struggle with Sleep Problems

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 18, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Good sleep equals good health, says Raul Noriega, manager of the Comprehensive Epilepsy and Sleep Disorders Center at Baylor Regional Medical Center at Grapevine. Yet more than half of women report problems with insomnia. ...





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A Job Today Helps Keep the Doctor Away

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Being without a job costs your health as well as your hip pocket.


Does Facebook usage contribute to jealousy in relationships?

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Aug 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

The more time college students spend on Facebook, the more likely they are to feel jealous toward their romantic partners, leading to more time on Facebook searching for additional information that will further fuel their ...


The vicious cycle of rainforest destruction

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 22, 2006 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Rainforests and savannas contain 70% of the world’s plants and are critical to the health of our planet. A new £1.6m international project involving researchers from the Leeds Earth and Biosphere Institute is looking at the ...


More reasons to hate humidity: It expands global warming, prof says

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 19, 2009 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (27) | comments 17

Here's yet another reason to hate humidity: it expands global warming, says a Texas A&M University professor.


Maths Research Tackles Problems of Bike + Car

Maths Research Tackles Problems of Bike + Car

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Oct 16, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The efforts to get more people out of cars and on their bikes in the UK could be being hampered by Governments' own transport strategies, claims new research from the University of Derby.


Researchers pioneer new treatment for social phobia and alcohol abuse

Researchers pioneer new treatment for social phobia and alcohol abuse

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jul 20, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- For many people, drinking is an essential part of a night out with friends. Alcohol is widely considered to be a social lubricant, so it's not surprising that social phobia, or extreme shyness, ...


B cells can act alone in autoimmune disease

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Aug 07, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

B cells, the source of damaging autoantibodies, have long been thought to depend upon T cells for their activation and were not considered important in the initiation of autoimmune diseases like lupus or rheumatoid arthritis.


Brain injury victims can seem OK, symptoms delayed (AP)

Brain injury victims can seem OK, symptoms delayed

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 20, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- At first, Natasha Richardson said she felt fine after she took a spill on a Canadian ski slope. But that's not unusual for people who suffer traumatic head injuries like the one that killed the actress.


Dried mushrooms slow climate warming in Northern forests

Biology /

created Nov 03, 2008 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (17) | comments 1

The fight against climate warming has an unexpected ally in mushrooms growing in dry spruce forests covering Alaska, Canada, Scandinavia and other northern regions, a new UC Irvine study finds.


Flowers' fragrance diminished by air pollution, study indicates

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 10, 2008 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (9) | comments 0

Air pollution from power plants and automobiles is destroying the fragrance of flowers and thereby inhibiting the ability of pollinating insects to follow scent trails to their source, a new University of Virginia study indicates. ...



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