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  • By Sci/Tech News Staff
  • May 25th, 2006
Neurons that Distinguish Swagger from Sway

Neurons that Distinguish Swagger from Sway

"If you want to appear particularly feminine you should walk behind a very masculine-looking male and vice-versa"

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  • By Sci/Tech News Staff
  • May 25th, 2006
If All Drivers Were Polite, They Would Get Where They're Going Faster

If All Drivers Were Polite, They Would Get Where They're Going Faster

Scientists think about how to improve the traffic

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  • By Sci/Tech News Staff
  • May 25th, 2006
How Neurons Grow and Connect to Each Other

How Neurons Grow and Connect to Each Other

Researchers unravel the mechanisms of axon growth

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  • By Sci/Tech News Staff
  • May 25th, 2006
Way Beyond Binge Drinking

Way Beyond Binge Drinking

A minority of students are consuming two to three times beyond the binge-drinking threshold

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  • By Sci/Tech News Staff
  • May 25th, 2006
Life's Harsh Lessons Make You Lose Your Self-Confidence

Life's Harsh Lessons Make You Lose Your Self-Confidence

People who have suffered life's hard knocks while growing up tend to be more gullible than those who have been more sheltered

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  • By Sci/Tech News Staff
  • May 24th, 2006
When It Comes to Privacy, Gender Matters

When It Comes to Privacy, Gender Matters

"You have zero privacy anyway ... Get over it."

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  • By Sci/Tech News Staff
  • May 22nd, 2006
Men Enjoy Amphetamines More than Women

Men Enjoy Amphetamines More than Women

This may explain why mental disorders such as schizophrenia are more prevalent in men

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  • By Sci/Tech News Staff
  • May 22nd, 2006
Careful What You Eat or You Might Have Twins

Careful What You Eat or You Might Have Twins

"The chance of having twins is affected by both heredity and environment, or in other words, by both nature and nurture"

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  • By Vlad Tarko
  • May 22nd, 2006
We Are a Million and a Half Years Younger than We Thought

We Are a Million and a Half Years Younger than We Thought

And there were 4 million years of human-chimpanzee hybridization

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  • By Sci/Tech News Staff
  • May 22nd, 2006
Apes Make Plans and Have a Certain Cognitive Understanding of the World

Apes Make Plans and Have a Certain Cognitive Understanding of the World

Researchers study bonobos' and orangutans' capacity to plan ahead

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  • By Vlad Tarko
  • May 19th, 2006
Schizophrenics Don't Understand Body Language

Schizophrenics Don't Understand Body Language

And medication doesn't seem to help them

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  • By Vlad Tarko
  • May 19th, 2006
Do We Need a Novel and Modern Definition of 'Family'?

Do We Need a Novel and Modern Definition of 'Family'?

The Economic and Social Research Council decided to study the issue

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  • By Vlad Tarko
  • May 19th, 2006
Gossip is a Good Thing?!

Gossip is a Good Thing?!

It creates friendships, it does not break them, study shows

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  • By Vlad Tarko
  • May 19th, 2006
Phones Have Changed, but the Girls Have Not

Phones Have Changed, but the Girls Have Not

Advertising almost half a century old might still work!

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  • By Vlad Tarko
  • May 19th, 2006
Mapping 'Self' and 'Other' in the Brain

Mapping 'Self' and 'Other' in the Brain

Why do we trust various people?

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  • By Vlad Tarko
  • May 18th, 2006
Haptic Communication: Two Are Better than One

Haptic Communication: Two Are Better than One

Communicating through touch and motion

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  • By Vlad Tarko
  • May 17th, 2006
Women Get Drunk, High and Addicted More Easily

Women Get Drunk, High and Addicted More Easily

Shows the US National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse

 
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