News tagged with life factors

Searching for life on Mars

The first and only attempts to search for life on Mars were the Viking missions launched in 1975. Now scientists are suggesting the next decade of robotic probes sent to the red planet should make the search ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 11, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (12) | comments 11 | with audio podcast

Attitude and adaptation keys to reaching 100 hundred years of age

University of Georgia research has provided new clues on surviving to be 100 years old, finding that how we feel about ourselves and our ability to adapt to an accumulation of challenging life experiences may be as or more ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 01, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Research finds happiest US States match a million Americans' own happiness states

New research by the UK's University of Warwick and Hamilton College in the US into the happiness levels of a million individual US citizens have revealed their personal happiness levels closely correlate ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (6) | comments 18

How did higher life evolve? Scientists determine the complete genome sequence of brown alga

With the world's first complete sequencing of a brown algal genome, an international research team has made a big leap towards understanding the evolution of two key prerequisites for higher life on Earth ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jun 03, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Obesity will snuff out health benefits gained by smoking declines

If obesity trends continue, the negative effect on the health of the U.S. population will overtake the benefits gained from declining smoking rates, according to a study by U-M and Harvard researchers published today in the ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Many top US scientists wish they had more children

Nearly half of all women scientists and one-quarter of male scientists at the nation's top research universities said their career has kept them from having as many children as they had wanted, according to a new study by ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Aug 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

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

What makes a successful society? Social scientists find health care only one piece of the puzzle

(PhysOrg.com) -- New research argues that the health of the population and the success or failure of many public health initiatives hinge as much on cultural and social factors as they do on doctors, facilities, ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Oct 15, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1