Science & Society

Golden Ratio Attractiveness Crosses Cultural Boundaries

In humans, faces are an important source of social information. One property of faces that is rapidly noticed is attractiveness. Research has highlighted symmetry and sexual dimorphism (how masculine/feminine a face is) as important variables that determin ...

Article - News Staff - May 6 2008 - 7:56pm

The Ocean Of Spacetime And The Higgs

With the Large Hadron Collider gearing up for its first test run this summer, physicists hope to discover the last missing particle predicted by the Electroweak theory, the Higgs boson.  Wrapped up in its own big theory, the Higgs Mechanism or Higgs Field ...

Article - Alan Gillis - Sep 1 2008 - 9:40pm

Teen Makes Simple DNA Fingerprinting Using Common Food Dyes

Most teenagers wouldn’t have a clue what agarose gel electrophoresis means, but middle school student Andrew Trigiano does- and as a result he's the youngest author to ever publish in the American Society of Horticultural Science’s journal HortTechnol ...

Article - News Staff - May 13 2008 - 1:46pm

The NBA And Firing Coaches- Is There Racism?

Do black NBA coaches have a harder time getting hired and an easier time getting fired? Not according to a new University of Michigan study, though it did find that white coaches with losing records got slightly longer opportunities before being fired than ...

Article - News Staff - May 14 2008 - 11:38am

Children Of Depressed Mothers 3X As Likely To Suffer Accidental Injury

Infants and toddlers whose mothers are severely depressed are almost three times more likely to suffer accidental injuries than other children in the same age group, according to a new study. The study’s findings, published today in the Advanced Access edi ...

Article - News Staff - May 14 2008 - 3:51pm

Striving Toward A Rational Stem Cell Research Debate

Professor John Burn is Medical Director of the Institute of Human Genetics at Newcastle University, where some of the most controversial stem cell research in the UK takes place. He's taking on a formidable task as the UK parliament debates controvers ...

Article - News Staff - May 15 2008 - 8:55pm

Women Make Lower Salaries Than Men Because They Ask For Less

Women ask for considerably lower salaries in salary negotiations than men but it may be because they are expected to do so, according to a dissertation in psychology by Una Gustafsson at Lund University in Sweden. Conceptions of good and poor negotiators a ...

Article - News Staff - May 18 2008 - 2:09am

Study Tackles Environmental Chemicals And Fertility

Each day we risk exposure to around 70,000 chemicals. In food packaging or even the air we breathe, contact with potentially-toxic substances could be affecting our health, including fertility. The Reproductive Effects of Environmental Chemicals in Females ...

Article - News Staff - May 20 2008 - 9:52am

Britian's NHS Tribulations As A Model For America's Health Care Future- Polyclinics And Cost

The government in the UK is proposing to change their NHS in response to complaints about waste, delays in treatment and quality concerns. The new idea is to create 'polyclinics'- general practitioners and specialists in one location. Will it lea ...

Article - News Staff - May 22 2008 - 7:14pm

Women In Bikinis Make Men Spend Stupidly- On Everything

It's no surprise that a woman in a bikini can increase a man's sexual appetite but research in the Journal of Consumer Research says that men who watched sexy videos or even handled lingerie had more appetite for everything- and it impacted their ...

Article - News Staff - May 30 2008 - 3:03pm