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Good conversation results in a 'mind meld'

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers studying human conversation have discovered the brains of listeners and speakers become synchronized, and this "neural coupling" makes for effective communication. In essence, ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jul 27, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (22) | comments 3 | with audio podcast report

Quick jolt of energy could improve energy harvesting by a factor of 40

(PhysOrg.com) -- Harvesting mechanical energy from the environment and converting it into electrical energy has recently become a viable method for powering low-energy electronics, such as sensors and actuators. ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jul 21, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (22) | comments 5 | with audio podcast feature

Opposites attract -- how genetics influences humans to choose their mates

New light has been thrown on how humans choose their partners, a scientist will tell the annual conference of the European Society of Human Genetics today. Professor Maria da Graça Bicalho, head of the Immunogenetics and ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created May 25, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (17) | comments 3

Animal cells communicate electrically over long distances via nanotubes

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study has discovered that animal cells communicate electrically with each other via tunneling nanotubes (TNTs). The membrane tubes contain a protein called F-actin and connect cells ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Sep 21, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (12) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Why you may lose that loving feeling after tying the knot

Dating couples whose dreams include marriage would do well to step back and reflect upon the type of support they'll need from their partners when they cross the threshold, a new Northwestern University study suggests.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Apr 22, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (13) | comments 7

Manipulating molecules for a new breed of electronics

(PhysOrg.com) -- In research appearing in today’s issue of the journal Nature Nanotechnology, Nongjian “NJ” Tao, a researcher at the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University, has demons ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 20, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (10) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Human brain to help computers analyze images

(PhysOrg.com) -- Brain-computer-interfaces (BCIs) are most often designed to help people (such as those with disabilities) do things they find difficult on their own, but a joint project by Columbia University ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 01, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 1 | with audio podcast report

Probing Question: What predicts a happy marriage?

You’ve planned the perfect Valentine’s Day, booked the candlelit restaurant, bought chocolate and flowers. (Or, depending on your darling's taste, bought tickets to a monster truck rally.) The night couldn’t have gone better… ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Feb 19, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 0

For better romantic relationships, be true to yourself

Be true to yourself, and better romantic relationships will follow, research suggests.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Mar 15, 2010 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (10) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Long-term couples know less about each other

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study has unexpectedly found that couples married for over 40 years know less about each other than couples who have been together for just a couple of years.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Oct 20, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (13) | comments 4 | with audio podcast report

How couples recover after an argument stems from their infant relationships

When studying relationships, psychological scientists have often focused on how couples fight. But how they recover from a fight is important, too. According to a new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Feb 18, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study shows real partners are no match for ideal mate

Our ideal image of the perfect partner differs greatly from our real-life partner, according to new research from the University of Sheffield and the University of Montpellier in France. The research found that our actual ...

Biology / Evolution

created Oct 01, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Lighten up: Polaritons with tunable photon-exciton coherence

(PhysOrg.com) -- Of the many exotic and counterintuitive aspects of particle and quantum physics, exciton and polariton quasiparticles are among the most interesting. An exciton forms when a photon is absorbed ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Jun 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast feature

Why young couples aren't getting married -- they fear the ravages of divorce

With the share of married adults at an all-time low in the United States, new research by demographers at Cornell University and the University of Central Oklahoma unveils clues why couples don't get married – they fear ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Dec 18, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (8) | comments 41

The language of young love: The ways couples talk can predict relationship success

We know that people tend to be attracted to, date, and marry other people who resemble themselves in terms of personality, values, and physical appearance. However, these features only skim the surface of what makes a relationship ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jan 25, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Couples

Couples is a 1968 novel by John Updike which focuses on a promiscuous circle of married friends in the fictional Boston suburb of Tarbox. Much of the novel (which takes place in 1963) concerns the efforts of its characters to balance the pressures of Protestant sexual mores against increasingly flexible American attitudes toward sex in the 1960s. The book suggests that this relaxation may have been driven by the development of birth control and the opportunity to enjoy what one character refers to as "the post-pill paradise." Its publication created a mild scandal and elicited a cover story in TIME magazine.

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