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Unique geologic insights from 'non-unique' gravity and magnetic interpretation

(PhysOrg.com) -- In many fields of applied science, such as geology, there are often tensions and disagreements between scientists who specialize in analyses of problems using mathematical models to describe sets of collected ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 02, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Antidepressant Can Change Patient's Personality

(PhysOrg.com) -- The nation is still debating the effects of antidepressant medications on brain chemistry almost 20 years after publication of the best-seller "Listening to Prozac." Though selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (12) | comments 0




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Scientists make stunning inner space observations

Scientists using high-powered microscopes have made a stunning observation of the architecture within a cell – and identified for the first time how the architecture changes during the formation of gametes, ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 01, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Arabic records allow past climate to be reconstructed

Corals, trees and marine sediments, among others, are direct evidence of the climate of the past, but they are not the only indicators. A team led by Spanish scientists has interpreted records written in Iraq ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Study shows income inequality a key factor in high US teen births

New research reveals the surprising economics behind the high U.S. teen birth rates, and why Texas teens are giving birth at triple the rate of Massachusetts youth: high income inequality and low opportunity cost.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

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

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

New research reveals food ingredients most prone to fraudulent economically motivated adulteration

In new research published in the April Journal of Food Science, analyses of the first known public database compiling reports on food fraud and economically motivated adulteration in food highlight the most fraud-prone ingred ...

Chemistry / Other

created Apr 05, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Size matters: Large Marine Protected Areas work for dolphins

Ecologists in New Zealand have shown for the first time that Marine Protected Areas – long advocated as a way of protecting threatened marine mammals – actually work. Their study, based on 21 years' ...

Biology / Ecology

created Mar 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

How species evolve: Epilogue to 'On the Origin of Species'?

(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the grand challenges in biology is to understand how species evolve. Today, more than 150 years after the publication of Darwin’s ‘On the Origin of Species’, we still do not truly understand ...

Biology / Evolution

created Mar 09, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Yosemite's alpine chipmunks take genetic hit from climate change

Global warming has forced alpine chipmunks in Yosemite to higher ground, prompting a startling decline in the species' genetic diversity, according to a new study by researchers at the University of California, ...

Biology / Ecology

created Feb 19, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 13 | with audio podcast

How successful Chinese entrepreneurs really think

(PhysOrg.com) -- Can you really learn to be an entrepreneur? A new in-depth study offers fresh insights into how successful business players teach themselves to become better and better at making money.

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Jan 16, 2012 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

The role of social media in protests

(PhysOrg.com) -- A study has explored the dynamics behind social network sites in recruiting and spreading  calls for action that contribute to riots, revolutions and protests.

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Dec 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0


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