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Healthy marriage interventions: A boon or a bust?

Conventional wisdom, backed by years of research, suggests that healthy marriages equals a healthy society. And politicians and government officials have taken note, investing hundreds of millions of dollars each year in ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created May 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Kepler announces 11 planetary systems hosting 26 planets

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Kepler mission has discovered 11 new planetary systems hosting 26 confirmed planets. These discoveries nearly double the number of verified Kepler planets and triple the number of stars ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (24) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Fermi observations of dwarf galaxies provide new insights on dark matter

(PhysOrg.com) -- There's more to the cosmos than meets the eye. About 80 percent of the matter in the universe is invisible to telescopes, yet its gravitational influence is manifest in the orbital speeds ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Apr 02, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (16) | comments 77 | with audio podcast

Research team gives drug dropouts a second chance

(Phys.org) -- A cross-disciplinary team of researchers at the University of Maryland has designed a molecular container that can hold drug molecules and increase their solubility, in one case up to nearly ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created May 07, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Kepler confirms its first planet in habitable zone of sun-like star

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Kepler mission has confirmed its first planet in the "habitable zone," the region where liquid water could exist on a planet’s surface. Kepler also has discovered more than 1,000 ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 05, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (29) | comments 41 | with audio podcast

New Limits on the Origin of Dark Matter

(PhysOrg.com) -- Determining the identity of dark matter, the mysterious stuff thought to make up the vast majority of matter in the universe, is one of the most fundamental challenges facing modern physics. Through theory ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 27, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (23) | comments 21 feature

Scientists develop new class of small molecules through innovative chemistry

Inspired by natural products, scientists on the Florida campus of the Scripps Research Institute have created a new class of small molecules with the potential to serve as a rich foundation for drug discovery.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Looks like a winner: Scientists demonstrate how much candidate appearances affect election outcomes

When you vote in an election, your choice is surely not influenced by anything as superficial as a candidate's looks, right?

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jul 21, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (8) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Unconscious racial attitudes playing large role in 2012 presidential vote

After the 2008 election of President Barack Obama, many proclaimed that the country had entered a post-racial era in which race was no longer an issue. However, a new large-scale study shows that racial attitudes have already ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created May 07, 2012 | popularity 2.2 / 5 (9) | comments 6

Two genes do not make a voter: new research

Voting behavior cannot be predicted by one or two genes as previous researchers have claimed, according to Evan Charney, a Duke University professor of public policy and political science.

Other Sciences / Other

created Feb 29, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Physicists detect two candidate dark matter interactions, but say the data are not conclusive

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have spent decades searching for the elusive material known as dark matter, which is believed to make up 25 percent of the universe. On Thursday, Dec. 17, a team of physicists including ...

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 18, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (17) | comments 6

Scientists discover a way to kill off tumors in cancer treatment breakthrough

Scientists from the School of Pharmacy at Queen's University Belfast and Almac Discovery Ltd have developed a new treatment for cancer which rather than attacking tumours directly, prevents the growth of new blood vessels ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Apr 05, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (13) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

New microchip technology performs 1,000 chemical reactions at once

(PhysOrg.com) -- Flasks, beakers and hot plates may soon be a thing of the past in chemistry labs. Instead of handling a few experiments on a bench top, scientists may simply pop a microchip into a computer ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Aug 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 3

Subaru's sharp eye confirms signs of unseen planets in the dust ring of HR 4796 A

(PhysOrg.com) -- The SEEDS (Strategic Exploration of Exoplanets and Disks with Subaru Telescope/HiCIAO) project, a five-year international collaboration launched in 2009 and led by Motohide Tamura of NAOJ ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 30, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Promiscuous queen bees maintain genetic diversity

By mating with nearly 100 males, queen bees on isolated islands avoid inbreeding and keep colonies healthy.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Apr 16, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Candidate

A candidate is the prospective recipient of an award or honor or a person seeking or being considered for some kind of position; for example:

"Nomination" is part of the process of selecting a candidate for either election to an office, or the bestowing of an honor or award. "Presumptive nominee" is a term used when a person or organization believes that the nomination is inevitable. The act of being a candidate in a race is called a "candidacy."

"Candidate" is a derivative of the Latin "candida" (white). In Ancient Rome, people running for political office would usually wear togas chalked and bleached to be bright white at speeches, debates, conventions, and other public functions.

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