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East views the world differently to West

Cultural differences between the West and East are well documented, but a study shows that concrete differences also exist in how British and Chinese people recognise people and the world around them. Easterners really do ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 8

Researchers: Societal control of sugar essential to ease public health burden

Sugar should be controlled like alcohol and tobacco to protect public health, according to a team of UCSF researchers, who maintain in a new report that sugar is fueling a global obesity pandemic, contributing to 35 million ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 2.9 / 5 (9) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

NASA sees development of tropical storm 09S in southern Indian Ocean

NASA's Aqua satellite passed over the low pressure system called System 97S on Jan. 24 and observed a large area of strong thunderstorms around its center that hinted at further development. On Jan. 25, the ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 25, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Food fried in olive or sunflower oil is not linked to heart disease

Eating food fried in olive or sunflower oil is not linked to heart disease or premature death, finds a paper published in the British Medical Journal today.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 24, 2012 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Neanderthals and their contemporaries engineered stone tools

(PhysOrg.com) -- New published research from anthropologists at the University of Kent has scientifically supported for the first time the long held theory that early human ancestors across Africa, Western ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jan 24, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

French breast implant scare reaches around the world

Hundreds of thousands of women in more than 65 countries, mainly in South America and western Europe, have received breast implants that are at the centre of a health scare.

Medicine & Health / Other

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

A new wild ginger discovered from the evergreen forest of Western Ghats of South India

Intensive botanical explorations for taxonomic studies on the members of the ginger family (Zingiberaceae) in India by V.P. Thomas and M. Sabu of the University of Calicut, have resulted in the discovery of ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jan 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

How poor maternal diet can increase risk of diabetes -- new mechanism discovered

Researchers have shown one way in which poor nutrition in the womb can put a person at greater risk of developing type 2 diabetes and other age-related diseases in later life. This finding could lead to new ways of identifying ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Milk consumption in adolescence may increase prostate cancer risk

(Medical Xpress) -- While people have been told for years about the importance of milk in a diet for children, a new study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology says that milk consumption in large quantities in ado ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 02, 2012 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (9) | comments 12 | with audio podcast report

Breast implant maker used non-approved gels: lawyer

The founder of the French firm that made breast implants feared to be at risk of rupturing has admitted using non-approved but non-toxic silicone gels, his lawyer said Tuesday.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Dec 27, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Research may hold key to a happy marriage

With every third marriage in Australia ending in divorce, the secrets to a happy marriage continue to elude many couples. But not for much longer with University of Queensland researchers on the case.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Dec 22, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Herbal amphetamine increases risk of death and stroke in those with heart disease

Chewing the natural stimulant khat increases the risk of death and stroke in patients with heart disease compared to those who are not users, according to new research in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.

Medicine & Health / Cardiology

created Dec 12, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Mistaken identity: New report highlights the global impact of medical misdiagnosis

Researchers have discovered that over a million people worldwide diagnosed with TB go on to develop an incurable but manageable fungal infection which is usually left untreated because it is mistaken for a recurrence of the ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 01, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Interactions between classical, African and Middle Eastern cultures explored

Academics from the Universities of Oxford and Warwick have shed new light on the history of interactions between the classical world, Africa and the Middle East.

Other Sciences / Other

created Nov 25, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Thai floods ripple through global supply chain

Thailand's worst floods in decades may gradually be subsiding but ripples will be felt by companies and consumers for months to come, analysts say, underlining the fragility of the global supply chain.

Technology / Business

created Nov 18, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0