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Clinical trials of spray-on skin to start in US

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Clinical trials comparing a spray-on skin product with skin grafts will start in the US in December. The trials, which are partly funded by a US army grant of $1.4 million, will last about a year and will ...


Distrust of Men Doesn't Keep Low-Income Mothers from Romantic Unions

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Contrary to popular scholarship that attributes low rates of marriage among low-income mothers to their general distrust of men, a new study led by a Duke University sociologist finds that gender distrust ...





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Witnesses to bullying may face more mental health risks than bullies and victims

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Students who watch as their peers endure the verbal or physical abuses of another student could become as psychologically distressed, if not more so, by the events than the victims themselves, new research suggests.


Evidence unearthed of possible mass cannibalism in Neolithic Europe

Evidence unearthed of possible mass cannibalism in Neolithic Europe

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (12) | comments 8

(PhysOrg.com) -- Archaeologists studying a 7,000-year-old site in what is now south-west Germany have found evidence suggesting that more than 500 people may have been the victims of cannibalism.


New forensic technique gives clues about sharks from bite damage

Biology / Other

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Hit-and-run attacks by sharks can be solved with a new technique that identifies the culprits by the unique chomp they put on their victims, according to a University of Florida researcher and shark expert.


Stopping rape as an object of war

Stopping rape as an object of war

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- It is a disturbing truth that sexual- and gender-based violence (SGBV) is used as a war tactic in developing nations. Silvia Dominguez, assistant professor of sociology at Northeastern University, ...


Digital avalanche rescue dog

Technology / Engineering

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

(PhysOrg.com) -- A novel geolocation system makes use of signals from Galileo, the future European satellite navigation system, to locate avalanche victims carrying an avalanche transceiver or a cellphone, to the precision ...


Obesity epidemic taking root in Africa

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The urban poor in sub-Saharan Africa are the latest victims of the obesity epidemic. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Public Health claim that overweight and obesity are on the increase among this group. ...


Chances of surviving cardiac arrest at home or work unchanged in 30 years

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The chance of surviving an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest has not improved since the 1950s, according to a report by the University of Michigan Health System.


New York autopsies show 2009 H1N1 influenza virus damages entire airway

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In fatal cases of 2009 H1N1 influenza, the virus can damage cells throughout the respiratory airway, much like the viruses that caused the 1918 and 1957 influenza pandemics, report researchers from the National Institutes ...


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Modified iPhones Are Compromised By New Worm

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Several research security firms have reported a new worm attack against jail broken iPhones, dubbed "Ikee.B or "Duh", this worm searches for personal and banking information.


Moral dilemma scenarios prone to biases

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Picture the following hypothetical scenario: A trolley is headed toward five helpless victims. The trolley can be redirected so that only one person's life is at stake. Psychologists and philosophers have been using moral ...



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