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For a long time, ants have been appreciated by experts in the scientific community as some of the most intelligent and advanced creatures on the planet. Their complex network of interactions allowed them, over the years, to form some of the most complex societies in existence today, rivaling our own in number and spe... |
23 July 2009
02:51 GMT |
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Personality traits play an important part in one’s appreciation at the work place, both from a personal and a professional / financial point of view. While it’s common sense that those who display eagerness and conscientiousness be paid more than those who can be described as slackers, a new study comes t... |
14 July 2009
13:21 GMT |
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When meerkat cubs are born, the entire group is in attendance and, over the first 3 months or so of life, all of the adults stop at nothing to ensure that their little ones have all they need to survive. Researchers have even observed the fact that the older meerkats even give away some of their food to the begging y... |
23 May 2009
04:50 GMT |
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Researchers have long been trying to come up with a “recipe” for true love, one that would guarantee that a marriage lasts a lifetime. Despite all their efforts, the conclusion has seemingly been that, no matter how they tried, no one could predict whether a marriage would pass the test of time or not. No... |
26 March 2009
07:24 GMT |
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Scientists at the Arizona State University have managed to create one of the first software to predict the movement of the masses, in simulations meant to give analysts some insight into how people tend to clog up on narrow streets. This happens very often in real life, when citizens try to flee a danger zone, or are... |
19 March 2009
05:34 GMT |
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With increasing numbers of people connecting to social media networks, a new phenomenon is rising, and that is the “online death.” That is to say, when individuals who play online games or are involved in communities such as Flickr, MySpace, Facebook and the likes die in real life, their accounts remain h... |
16 March 2009
05:05 GMT |
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The implications of the latest advances in technology have often been discussed, with pros and cons weighed in the balance, but with seemingly no convenient conclusion or solution on sight. Neuroscientists and psychologists have again rallied to speak against the dangers of leaving children under seven in front of th... |
24 February 2009
16:31 GMT |
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Understanding dreams and their significance has been a long-standing goal of humanity since the dawn of time, as many people believe that their dreams are nothing less than a gateway into their own minds, to thoughts they cannot otherwise access. There are also those who say that they are hidden messages about things... |
18 February 2009
10:51 GMT |
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The human mind indeed works in mysterious ways, researchers from the University of Washington (UW), who have recently concluded a 7 year-long study designed to give them a new perspective on the triggering factors of depression in early adolescence, say. They learned that anti-social behavior and anxiety were the mos... |
18 February 2009
06:30 GMT |
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According to a new research, chimpanzees are very likely to form social bonds that keep them together for prolonged periods of time. This is especially true for males, which have been reported to remain in close contact with each other for as long as 7 years. Females, on the other hand, leave the colony when they bec... |
26 January 2009
08:48 GMT |
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Sociologists say that a new breed of scientists is currently gaining momentum in the academic community, one that uses its own children for harmless experimentation, instead of paying others to undergo the tests. The researchers who apply this method are saying that there's nothing wrong with, for example, attac... |
19 January 2009
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According to a new scientific research, the satisfied expression on the faces of those who just blasted a virtual opponent out of the screen in a video game doesn't come from them satisfying their blood-thirsty instincts, but from the fact that they are satisfied for mastering the challenge the game placed befor... |
16 January 2009
10:44 GMT |
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In a new scientific study, researchers noticed that young children are heavily influenced by the layout of the Internet page they are visiting. Namely, the way in which the content of the site is structured exerts a heavy influence on the small ones' ability to process and later recall the information they see. ... |
15 January 2009
09:36 GMT |
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According to a new scientific study, published in the January 15th issue of the journal Neuron, humans tend to follow the crowd because of an innate mechanism inside their brains, which triggers an alert signal when an individual's opinion diverges from the general one. This signal could be the one that dictates... |
15 January 2009
07:57 GMT |
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A new, first-of-its-kind study shows that people are more likely to buy an object if they actually hold the item, and are also willing to outbid others in an auction for it. Because of the emotional attachment that forms within the first 30 seconds of touching it, they are also more likely to pay more than the retail... |
8 January 2009
02:47 GMT |
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It's common knowledge that melamine and bisphenol-A are just two of the compounds that go into plastic that are certainly unhealthy, and potentially lethal for humans. The impact that plastic leaves on the environment is also long-lasting and harmful, so it would stand to reason that a large number of people are... |
5 January 2009
07:30 GMT |
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Over the past few years, advancements in the field of genetics offered countless scientists, who would have otherwise had no funds for their work, the possibility of experimenting with increasingly cheaper materials, in the comfort of their own home, or garage. Now, the academic community is worried that so much free... |
29 December 2008
03:03 GMT |
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For centuries, researchers have been trying to understand exactly what it is that drives people's facial expressions in specific situations, such as a victory or a defeat in a sports game, or in an award ceremony. Most psychologists thus far believed that this behavior was learned through the power of habit, as ... |
29 December 2008
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In an attempt to answer millenia-old questions, researchers at the Missouri University, led by Brick Johnstone, conducted a new set of scientific experiments in an attempt to decipher exactly what makes some people more religious than others. Instead of opting for numerous MRI scans, they turned to a classic method o... |
28 December 2008
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There are numerous scientific studies that argue the benefits of crying for most people, in terms of letting go of their inner emotions and of whatever bothers them. But a new research, conducted by researchers at the University of South Florida and the Tilburg University, in The Netherlands, shows that these benefit... |
28 December 2008
04:13 GMT |
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That women are addicted to shopping and fashion is no longer something many are ignorant of, but the greatest mystery related to this compulsive behavior, as it’s been deemed, meaning, for whom women dress, still remains unsolved. A couple of days ago, the girls from fashion-oriented website TheFashionistaDiari... |
26 December 2008
03:11 GMT |
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Recent psychological analysis revealed, to the amazement of scientists, that the human mind perceives a hit or injury as being more painful if the person who caused it did it on purpose. That may be the case if we stop for a moment and think about silly house accidents that inevitably take place when there's mor... |
23 December 2008
11:08 GMT |
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Despite popular belief, recent scientific studies prove the fact that on-line games are less and less dominated by males, as the stereotype goes. Rather, more than 40 percent of players in popular games such as EVE, World of Warcraft, MU and others are females, the new results show. Gamers who spend more time on thei... |
23 December 2008
08:50 GMT |
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Psychologists say that there is a sort of natural drive that makes people want to lie uncontrollably when they find themselves in certain situations, where telling the truth could make them look bad in the eyes of close friends, relatives, co-workers or peers. A low sense of self-esteem can also trigger a higher inci... |
22 December 2008
18:01 GMT |
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It's common knowledge that men may sometime act foolishly when in the presence of women, so as to attract them and prove that they are very skilled at what they do. This is true for rock climbers, parachutists and other males engaged in very dangerous and life-threatening extreme sports. A new study suggests tha... |
22 December 2008
08:58 GMT |
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Raising a child is no easy task, and this is something that every parent will tell you. Getting them to have confidence in themselves is very hard, and some parents never succeed in doing so. But a recent study suggests that children who do have a high degree of self-esteem are very likely to manifest aggressively, i... |
22 December 2008
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A new scientific study finally shed some light on one of the most mysterious human behaviors, namely the yawn. While most people know that yawning occurs when they are sleepy, they are not aware of the fact that this process also serves to a variety of other purposes, all tied to the optimum functioning parameter... |
19 December 2008
19:01 GMT |
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In a replicated experiment, scientists discovered the fact that people were very likely to continue administering electric shocks to other people, if they were told to do so by an authoritarian figure. The first conclusion of this kind belonged to an experiment conducted in 1961 by Professor Stanley Milgram, of Yale ... |
19 December 2008
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A new scientific study proves that video gamers who crave to play their favorite game exhibit about the same symptoms, neurologically speaking, as drug addicts looking to score their next dose. The same areas of the brain lit up, when MRI imaging was used on a few “game addicts,” whereas in the control gr... |
19 December 2008
03:57 GMT |
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Synaesthesia is a very rare condition, having as main feature the fact that it triggers strong emotions in people who have it, when they touch various objects. For instance, while some fabrics, such as cotton and silk, may be a source of happiness and positive feelings, denim can trigger hate or anguish. There are se... |
19 December 2008
02:54 GMT |
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Behavior and health experts at the University of Michigan (UM) found that walking outside, in parks or in nature, helps improve conditions such as memory deficit, inattentiveness and other forms of mental fatigue. Even the cold weather is good enough, as the team says that the cold stimulates the brain to be more ale... |
17 December 2008
06:16 GMT |
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Researchers at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, say that women can quit smoking just as easily as men, but that they require a different kind of support than men do in order to succeed. Though the scientists have found no relevant differences between the numbers of men and women that managed to stay free of s... |
17 December 2008
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Depression and anxiety are two medical conditions that are extremely difficult to treat by doctors, mostly because they have to do with a person's state of mind, and not necessarily with something going wrong inside their body. However, these diseases can also affect the body, in light of the actions people suff... |
16 December 2008
03:20 GMT |
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Researchers at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute, led by professor Bart Hoebel, have recently made public the results of their studies concerning the effects of sugar addiction in rats. They have concluded that sugar dependence leads to the same brain changes as alcohol, nicotine, or drugs addiction. More than tha... |
15 December 2008
03:29 GMT |
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Researchers at the University of Michigan, led by Daniel Weissman, studied the interactions that occur between multiple areas of the brain when boredom sets in, and discovered that, as attention fades, so does the intensity at which several nervous centers communicate. The results were obtained by keeping volunteers ... |
11 December 2008
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University of Newcastle Psychologist Daniel Nettle conducted a study on more than 100,000 children, in an attempt to determine exactly how a father's involvement in raising the children influences the little ones during their early teen years. The paper, published in the November 28 issue of the journal Evolutio... |
8 December 2008
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All over the world, people believe in a god. No matter its name, there is always a super-natural entity that people pray to, and whose representation they turn to in time of need. Author Guy P. Harrison, who traveled the world analyzing people's religions, reveals in his latest book the 50 main reasons why most ... |
8 December 2008
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Shopping during the Christmas season can be a very difficult and even deadly task, so before you set out make sure that you are armed with a few basic tips on how to minimize the time you spend in the store, or standing in line. The first time-saving thing you can do is to go out and buy the gifts you want as soon a... |
6 December 2008
04:15 GMT |
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Scientists studying human behavior learned that punishment among individuals in the same group could be a very effective way of promoting cooperation, rather than appealing to an individual's consciousness. Namely, if other members of the group have the capacity to sanction those who stray from the “path&r... |
6 December 2008
03:51 GMT |
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A 20 year-long study revealed that the happiness of just one person can affect a huge number of individuals for periods as long as one year. Their state of mind can influence their friends' and their friends' friends as well, spreading through social networks like an infectious disease. This proves that hap... |
5 December 2008
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Expert radiologists will, from now on, have the possibility to treat victims of self-embedding disorder themselves, as new techniques of identifying objects that were inserted under the skin became available. Both X-ray imaging and ultrasonic guidance can be used to remove all sorts of things from the bodies of teena... |
3 December 2008
06:57 GMT |
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Scientists at the Aberdeen University, UK, led by the psychologist Benedict Jones, have studied the way women who have not yet reached menopause react to other genuinely beautiful women. The results of the research proved that women still able to give birth considered the women in the photos presented to them less at... |
3 December 2008
06:26 GMT |
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Couples in which one of the partners exhibits high levels of relationship-contingent self-esteem (RCSE) may be placed under unnecessary strain, recent scientific studies show. Too much emotional weight placed in the relationship can scare the other partner away, or create uncomfortable situations that do more harm th... |
3 December 2008
02:35 GMT |
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A new research, published in the journal Pediatrics on Monday, showed that genetics played a very important role in the onset of night terrors in children aged under 18 months. The results were obtained after researchers at Montreal's Sacre-Coeur Hospital Sleep Disorders Center, in Canada, studied 390 twin pairs... |
1 December 2008
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New scientific study revealed that talking over the cell phone while driving a car was far more distracting for drivers than discussing something with a passenger inside the vehicle. The research, to be published in American Psychological Association's December issue of the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Ap... |
1 December 2008
02:49 GMT |
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New study further links the violence seen on TV with increasing rates of violent behavior among teenagers, but especially preschoolers. TV shows, action movies and extremely violent video games all have a very high impact on the way children and young adults view the world, especially if they've been exposed to ... |
27 November 2008
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Recent scientific studies revealed that children of those who started smoking when they were very young are far more likely to start smoking than their peers, whose parents started doing so later in life or not at all. The same holds true if parents keep on smoking steadily for many years, well into adulthood. T... |
24 November 2008
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Recent scientific studies show that people who experience new things and are also innovative display a stronger interaction between two nervous centers in their brains, namely the ventral striatum and the hippocampus. These regions are responsible for reward systems, and specific memory functions, respectively. The s... |
24 November 2008
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A new scientific study, published in the November edition of the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, revealed that women who had an unwanted or unplanned pregnancy as they were young are more likely than others, in a control group, to have another one within two years. Major factors that influence this pheno... |
21 November 2008
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Diagnosing autism is a challenging task for doctors, which is precisely why the average age for the discovery of the disease is about 3 years for children in the Untied States. These statistics are very concerning, as the affliction can be better treated if it's discovered early or even before it sets in. Recogn... |
7 November 2008
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