News tagged with differences

Neighboring chimp communities have their own nut-cracking styles

People don't always do as their neighbors do, and the same is true of neighboring chimpanzees. That's according to a report published online on May 10 in Current Biology featuring observations of wild chimps ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 10, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Language diversity will make London a true global player

Understanding linguistic diversity among London's schoolchildren is key for the city's future as a 'global player', research shows. A study funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) mapped the distribution ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created May 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 3

Biologists turn back the clock to understand evolution of sex differences

Sex differences account for some of the most of the spectacular traits in nature: the wild colours of male guppies, the plumage of peacocks, tusks on walruses and antlers on moose. Sexual conflict – the ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 03, 2012 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Tale of two e-retailers: study finds U.S. online consumers bigger risk-takers, more trusting than Korean shoppers

U.S. online shoppers more likely to be risk-takers compared to their Korean counterparts, says Professor Frances Gunn, Ted Rogers School of Retail Management. She is the Canadian co-author of an international study that examined ...

Technology / Internet

created May 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Google online translation tops 200 mln users

Google Translate marked its sixth birthday on Thursday with news that more than 200 million people use the free online translation service monthly.

Technology / Internet

created Apr 26, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers announce GenomeSpace environment to connect genomic tools

Researchers from the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have announced that GenomeSpace, a software environment that seamlessly connects genomic analysis tools, is now available to the scientific community. During her keynote ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Apr 25, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study finds significant skull differences between closely linked groups

In order to accurately identify skulls as male or female, forensic anthropologists need to have a good understanding of how the characteristics of male and female skulls differ between populations. A new study ...

Biology / Other

created Apr 12, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Study links Google search behavior to GDP

Internet users from countries with a higher per capita gross domestic product (GDP) are more likely to search for information about the future than information about the past, a quantitative analysis of Google search queries ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Apr 05, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study reveals impact of socioeconomic factors on the racial gap in life expectancy

(PhysOrg.com) -- Differences in factors such as income, education and marital status could contribute overwhelmingly to the gap in life expectancy between blacks and whites in the United States, according ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Apr 05, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Research on stickleback fish shows how adaptation to new environments involves many genes

A current controversy raging in evolutionary biology is whether adaptation to new environments is the result of many genes, each of relatively small effect, or just a few genes of large effect. A new study ...

Biology / Evolution

created Apr 03, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Where the wild winds blow: Stanford engineers use weather models to site offshore wind farms

(PhysOrg.com) -- Politics aside, most energy experts agree that cheap, clean, renewable wind energy holds great potential to help the world satisfy energy needs while reducing harmful greenhouse gases. Wind ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Apr 03, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Study examines why people choose same-sex schools

In the last decade, same sex schools and classes have increased dramatically across the United States. Many studies have examined the differences in the education students receive in a same sex school versus co-ed institutions. ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Apr 02, 2012 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Afghans share unique genetic heritage, DNA analysis shows

A study by The Genographic Project has found that the majority of all known ethnic Afghans share a unique genetic heritage derived from a common ancestral population that most likely emerged during the Neolithic revolution ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Mar 27, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Using game theory to understand the physics of cancer propagation

In search of a different perspective on the physics of cancer, Princeton University and University of California, San Francisco researchers teamed up to use game theory to look for simplicity within the complexity of the ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Mar 27, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Subtle differences can lead to major changes in parasites

Researchers have found the subtle genetic differences that make one parasite far more virulent than its close relative.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Differences

"Differences" is the title of a number-one R&B single by singer Ginuwine. The hit song spent four weeks at number-one on the US R&B chart.This is Ginuwine's best selling and top charting single yet in his career, also peaking at number four on the main US pop chart.

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