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Rating attractiveness: Study finds consensus among men, not women

Hot or not? Men agree on the answer. Women don't.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jun 26, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (12) | comments 5

It's the network: Researchers examine behavior influenced by network structure

A team of computer scientists at the University of Pennsylvania investigating the political, social and economic struggle between individual self-interest and the need to build a consensus have learned that, depending only ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jan 28, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Statistical analysis projects future temperatures in North America

For the first time, researchers have been able to combine different climate models using spatial statistics - to project future seasonal temperature changes in regions across North America.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 15, 2012 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (21) | comments 50 | with audio podcast

Less knowledge, more power: Uninformed can be vital to democracy, study finds

Contrary to the ideal of a completely engaged electorate, individuals who have the least interest in a specific outcome can actually be vital to achieving a democratic consensus. These individuals dilute the ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (8) | comments 163 | with audio podcast

Why 'scientific consensus' fails to persuade

Suppose a close friend who is trying to figure out the facts about climate change asks whether you think a scientist who has written a book on the topic is a knowledgeable and trustworthy expert. You see from the dust jacket ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Sep 14, 2010 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (37) | comments 64 | with audio podcast

Picky preschoolers: Young children prefer majority opinion

When we are faced with a decision, and we're not sure what to do, usually we'll just go with the majority opinion. When do we begin adopting this strategy of "following the crowd"? In a new report in Psychological Science, a jour ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Mar 13, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Yahoo! dumping products in turn-around plan

Yahoo! is dumping products along with workers in a quest to return the faded Internet star to glory.

Technology / Business

created Apr 18, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

UN meets to mull climate change quick-fix options

On the heels of another halting round of talks on climate change, UN scientists this week will review quick-fix options for beating back the threat of global warming that rely on technology rather than political ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 19, 2011 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (8) | comments 31

Experts advocate realigning type 2 diabetes treatments with disease's natural history

A new consensus statement published in the September, 2010, issue of The Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM) finds that the increasing recognition that beta-cell failure occurs much e ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Oct 06, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Outside science academies to review warming panel

(AP) -- The beleaguered global warming panel has found an outside group to review how it writes its reports.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 09, 2010 | popularity 2.6 / 5 (5) | comments 3

Expect a tough round of climate talks in Durban: S.Africa

The upcoming UN climate talks in South Africa will be "tough" despite progress in moving toward a new round of Kyoto Protocol commitments, South Africa's foreign minister said Friday.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

As climate talks sputter, UN scientists vet 'Plan B'

On the heels of another halting round of talks on climate change, UN scientists this week will review quick-fix options for beating back the threat of global warming that rely on technology rather than political wrangling.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 18, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (6) | comments 33

Frequent inaccuracies in testosterone testing lead to call for standardization

The use of testosterone assays for patient care and research is on the rise as new research links testosterone to a variety of diseases and conditions. Although the assays are heavily used, discrepancies and inaccuracies ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Oct 08, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

AAO-HNS releases consensus statement: diagnosis and management of nasal valve compromise

Today, the American Academy of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery (AAO-HNS) announced the release of a consensus statement to address ambiguities and disparities in the diagnosis and management of nasal valve compromise ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jul 01, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Television has less effect on education about climate change than other forms of media

Worried about climate change and want to learn more? You probably aren't watching television then. A new study by George Mason University Communication Professor Xiaoquan Zhao suggests that watching television has no significant ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Oct 16, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0