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The oldest farming village in the Mediterranean islands is discovered in Cyprus

The oldest agricultural settlement ever found on a Mediterranean island has been discovered in Cyprus by a team of French archaeologists involving CNRS, the National Museum of Natural History, INRAP, EHESS ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created May 15, 2012 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (12) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Researchers shed new light on connection between brain and loneliness

Social isolation affects how people behave as well as how their brains operate, a study at the University of Chicago shows.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Feb 15, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (10) | comments 7

Russia locks up six for Mars experiment

The hatch slammed shut Tuesday behind six volunteers from Europe and Russia who will spend three months isolated in a capsule in Moscow to simulate conditions for a manned mission to Mars.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 31, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (8) | comments 5

Study examines sexual orientation and bullying among adolescents

The act and victimization of bullying continues to be a problem among today's youth. While many children are experiencing this form of violence, it is more prevalent in children that are different from the social norm. As ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 27, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Grinch likely depressed, suffers from lack of love, joy, expert says (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Being irritable, grumpy and seeking social isolation are also hallmarks of depression, and could explain the Grinch's disdain for the Who -- the tall and the small -- his mistreatment of his dog Max and, ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 3

More than half of stroke survivors suffer added burden of little known neurologic condition

A survey released today by National Stroke Association shows that 53 percent of stroke survivor respondents suffer from symptoms of another neurologic condition called pseudobulbar affect (PBA), a condition thought to be ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Oct 18, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0

By feeding the birds, you could change their evolutionary fate

Feeding birds in winter is a most innocent human activity, but it can nonetheless have profound effects on the evolutionary future of a species, and those changes can be seen in the very near term. That's ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 5

Marine scientists unveil the mystery of life on undersea mountains

They challenge the mountain ranges of the Alps, the Andes and the Himalayas in size yet surprisingly little is known about seamounts, the vast mountains hidden under the world's oceans. Now in a special issue ...

Biology / Ecology

created Sep 20, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Study surprise yields new target for assessing genes linked to autism

Researchers at Duke University Medical Center have uncovered a new genetic signature that correlates strongly with autism and which doesn't involve changes to the DNA sequence itself. Rather, the changes are in the way the ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Sociologists debate: Are Americans really isolated?

A widely publicized analysis of social network size, which reported dramatically increasing social isolation when it was published in 2006, has sparked an academic debate in the August issue of the American Sociological Re ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Aug 04, 2009 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (7) | comments 0

NASA Tests Unique Jumbo Jet with Opening in Side; Plane's Airborne Telescope Will Be Used to Study Cosmos

(PhysOrg.com) -- A NASA jumbo jet that will help scientists unlock the origins of the universe with infrared observations reached a milestone Friday when doors covering the plane's telescope were fully opened ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 3

Love-smitten consumers will do anything for their cars and guns

The way people treat their possessions looks like love, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Dec 22, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 11

Segregation in charter schools, research shows

When the charter school system was first proposed and developed two decades ago, it was heralded, in part, as a promising means of achieving classroom diversity. However, the incidence of racial isolation in those schools ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Feb 18, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Tropical birds waited for land crossing between North and South America: study

Despite their ability to fly, tropical birds waited until the formation of the land bridge between North and South America to move northward, according to a University of British Columbia study published this ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Earthquake simulation shows off the potential for safer bridges (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- With a series of computer-controlled earthquakes, simulating some of the most devastating in recent memory, Berkeley engineers Wednesday showed off new technology designed to keep bridges not just from collapsing ...

Technology / Engineering

created May 27, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast