[img=1]A group of investigators at the Northeastern University and the University of Oxford says that mobile phone data are an abundant gold mine for extracting data on human reproductive strategies, as well as on their rel... [read more >>] Our perception of colors – while pretty good on some occasions – is entirely lacking on others. Researchers highlight two so-called “forbidden colors” that our eyes cannot see due to the very nature ... [read more >>] For decades, politicians and economists believed that happiness is linked with macroeconomic factors in modern societies. As this view began to change over the past few years, researchers started wondering about what actual... [read more >>] Psychologists from the University of Texas in Austin (UTA) say that individuals looking for mates are experiencing a type of self-deception that may, oddly enough, increase their chances at playing the mating game successfu... [read more >>] One of the most alarming trends researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) found in a new study is that the general public is becoming increasingly skeptical that global warming exists, even as the scien... [read more >>] Today, October 7, the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced that the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize will be split evenly between three activists, “for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women’s rig... [read more >>] According to an announcement made yesterday, October 5, by representatives from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry goes to investigator Dan Shechtman of the Technion – Israel Inst... [read more >>] The 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics goes out to three scientists, “for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae.” Saul Perlmutter will receive half of th... [read more >>] According to official statistics, the world's general population will reach the 7 billion mark in October, a few days from now. The billionth person was born in the early 1800s, which means that the globe's popula... [read more >>] In a study that is bound to entice numerous moral and ethical controversies, scientists at the University of California in Berkeley (UCB) announce the development of a new technique that allows them to tap into the human br... [read more >>] |
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