The public should view crowd estimation with scepticism, say the authors of a study published today in Significance, the magazine of the Royal Statistical…
Aug 25, 2011
A study by researchers at the Stein Institute for Research on Aging at the University of California, San Diego finds that successful aging and positive quality of life indicators correlate with sexual satisfaction in older women.
Aug 24, 2011
University of Arkansas archaeologists have found evidence for the continuity of civilization across a time period when civilizations throughout the Middle East and elsewhere were collapsing.
Aug 24, 2011
An extreme form of pregnancy-related nausea and vomiting known as hyperemesis gravidarum (HG) takes a heavy toll on thousands of women each year and can lead to hospitalization and pregnancy termination.
Aug 23, 2011
In research that will help address a long-running debate and apparent contradiction between short- and long-term evolutionary change, scientists have…
Aug 22, 2011
University of Cincinnati geologists – who routinely find themselves between a rock and a hard place when collecting research samples – have become the…
Aug 22, 2011
Researchers funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) have discovered a new mechanism controlling ageing in white blood cells.
Aug 16, 2011
A compound found in green tea shows great promise for the development of drugs to treat two types of tumors and a deadly congenital disease.
Aug 15, 2011
Baylor University doctoral student Samuel Stroope, a researcher in the department of sociology, has been named recipient of a prestigious award given by the Association for the Sociology of Religion for outstanding student paper.
Aug 12, 2011
There are increasing pressures for health care providers to make individual-level data readily available for research and policy making.
Aug 8, 2011
Columbia University Medical Center researchers have shown that new, or "de novo," protein-altering mutations—genetic errors that are present in patients but…
Aug 8, 2011
In the first nationwide study of stray-bullet shootings, Garen Wintemute, professor of emergency medicine and director of the Violence Prevention Research…
Aug 3, 2011
Changes in ocean chemistry due to increased carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are expected to damage shellfish populations around the world, but some nations will…
Aug 2, 2011
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 25 percent of Americans have inactive lifestyles (they take fewer than 5,000 steps a day) and 75…
Aug 2, 2011
