Often illegal sales tactic contributed to housing crash
A study of home purchases during the real estate boom years in Chicago shows how one ethically murky – and [...]
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Physical activity a buffer for those at-risk for panic
Regular exercise may be a useful strategy for helping prevent the development of panic and related disorders, a new study [...]
Goalies Tend to Dive Right in World Cup Penalty Shoot-Outs When Their Team is Behind…Why?
In the quarterfinal of the 2006 Soccer World Cup, England and Portugal played for 90 tense minutes and 30 minutes [...]
Smart phones could change eyeglass prescriptions
Smart phone users reading text messages and internet pages hold their devices at a closer distance than they would for [...]
Good Posture Makes You Tougher
Mothers have been telling their children to stop slouching for ages. It turns out that mom was onto something and [...]
Minimally Invasive Treatment for Blocked Heart Valves
Heart experts at Johns Hopkins have begun testing a new device designed to replace blocked aortic valves in patients for [...]
Evidence for ‘Food Addiction’ in Humans
New research suggests that people can become dependent on highly palatable foods and engage in a compulsive pattern of consumption, [...]
Insight for new malaria treatment
La Trobe University research has revealed for the first time the mechanism by which current anti-malarial drugs kill the malaria [...]
Caffeine promotes drink flavor preference in adolescents
Research to be presented at the upcoming annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior (SSIB), the [...]
Chicks dig certain types of music
What accounts for the sounds we like to hear? Is it something about the properties of our auditory systems or [...]
Female minorities are more affected by racism than sexism
Studies by the University of Toronto’s psychology department suggest that racism may impact some female minority groups more deeply than [...]
Natural pain relief from poisonous shrub
An extract of the poisonous shrub Jatropha curcas acts as a strong painkiller and may have a mode of action [...]
Online Consumers Willing to Pay Premium for Net Privacy
Online consumers thought to be motivated primarily by savings are, in fact, often willing to pay a premium for purchases [...]
All-cause mortality rates are lower among moderate drinkers than among abstainers
The author of this paper set out to determine the extent to which potential “errors” in many early epidemiologic studies [...]
Study Finds Key Early Skills for Later Math Learning
Psychologists at the University of Missouri have identified the beginning of first grade math skills that teachers and parents should [...]
Out-of-body experiences linked to neural instability, biases in body representation
Although out-of-body experiences (OBEs) are typically associated with migraine, epilepsy and psychopathology, they are quite common in healthy and psychologically [...]
The perfect connection between guitar and computer
Guitar virtuosos have to master all kinds of playing techniques. But how can the intricate process of playing the instrument [...]
Underwater Antarctic volcanoes discovered in the Southern Ocean
Scientists from British Antarctic Survey (BAS) have discovered previously unknown volcanoes in the ocean waters around the remote South Sandwich [...]
