7-8-2008
Seeing her baby smile lights up the reward centres in the mother’s brain in a way similar to that observed in experiments on drug addiction, said US and UK researchers who hope the findings give further insight into the development of the mother-baby bond, and how it can sometimes go wrong.
The study is the work [...]
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13 Apr 2008Female penguins mate with males who bring them pebbles to build egg nests. Hummingbirds mate to gain access to the most productive flowers guarded by larger males.
New research shows that even affluent college students who don’t need resources will still attempt to trade sexual currency for provisions, said Daniel Kruger, research scientist at [...]
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11 Apr 2008
Social integration affects the mental health of non-Western male immigrants in a positive way. For women however, social integration gives an increased risk for mental problems according to a new study from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH).
We found that social integration among non-Western immigrants is linked to good mental health in [...]
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02 Apr 2008
If you are struggling to retrieve a word that you are certain is on the tip of your tongue, or trying to perfect a slapshot that will send your puck flying into a hockey net, or if you keep stumbling over the same sequence of notes on the piano, be warned: you might [...]
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27 Mar 2008
Can we train ourselves to be compassionate? A new study suggests the answer is yes. Cultivating compassion and kindness through meditation affects brain regions that can make a person more empathetic to other peoples’ mental states, say researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Published March 26 in the Public Library of Science One, the [...]
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26 Mar 2008
A “large and growing” disparity exists between the life expectancies of higher- and lower-income U.S. residents, according to a new federal study, the New York Times reports. For the study, Gopal Singh, a demographer from HHS, and Mohammad Siahpush, a professor at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, used census data for all [...]
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The birth of U.S. colleges can be traced to events spread between 1636 when the Massachusetts legislature passed a bill that would pave the way in 1639 for the chartering of Harvard College (later Harvard University). In the next one hundred and thirty years a number of colleges would be created, though none would [...]
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Mar 20, 2008
Snorers have always been the butt of jokes. In cartoons, their nasal roar lifts the roof off houses. In sitcoms, there’s the wife who rolls her eyes at her snoring bedmate. But in reality, it’s not all that funny. In fact, snoring can be a nightmare for snorers and their beleaguered partners, [...]
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BDA China, a Beijing-based consulting and research firm has announced that there are 220 million Web surfers in China, a number which slightly surpasses the 217 million in the United States and makes the country the largest Internet-connected population in the world.
By the end of the year it is expected that China’s surfers will number [...]
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11 Mar 2008
Today’s video games and online virtual worlds give users the freedom to create characters in the digital domain that look and seem more human than ever before. But despite having your hair, your height, and your hazel eyes, your avatar is still little more than just a pretty face.
A group of researchers from [...]
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