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Heartbreak puts the brakes on your heart

Social rejection isn't just emotionally upsetting; it also upsets your heart. A new study finds that being rejected by another person makes your heart rate drop for a moment. The study is published in Psychological Science, a jour ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Sep 28, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

To publish or not to publish? That is the question

For more than 50 years medical research has been vetted through the peer-review process overseen by medical journal editors who assign reviewers to determine whether work merits publication. A study published in PLoS One invest ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created May 21, 2010 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

New drug for kidney transplant recipients effective in humans

Initial results of a study conducted at 100 centers worldwide indicate that belatacept, a first-in-class costimulation blocker can prevent the immune system rejecting new organs. The results also suggest that it may provide ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Feb 17, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Kidney transplant survival can be long-term for people with HIV

A Johns Hopkins study finds that HIV-positive kidney transplant recipients could have the same one-year survival rates for themselves and their donor organs as those without HIV, provided certain risk factors for transplant ...

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Jan 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0




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Game theory, in the real world

For students in New York and Boston, who have a range of options beyond their neighborhood school, choosing a high school used to be a maddeningly complicated guessing game. In Boston, for instance, many students would list ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created May 02, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

FCC: TV stations must post rates for campaign ads

(AP) -- The Federal Communications Commission voted Friday to require broadcast TV stations to post online the advertising rates they charge political candidates and advocacy groups.

Technology / Telecom

created Apr 27, 2012 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Sales-tax collection likely in Amazon's future

When word emerged that Amazon.com Inc. was hunting for new warehouse sites, leaders in this business-friendly Southern state rolled out a welcome mat of tax breaks to lure the Internet retailer.

Technology / Business

created Apr 08, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 23

New research points to erosional origin of linear dunes

Linear dunes, widespread on Earth and Saturn's moon, Titan, are generally considered to have been formed by deposits of windblown sand. It has been speculated for some time that some linear dunes may have ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 24, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Australian women reject 'I love u' texts

Australian women may have embraced the digital era, but they prefer a face-to-face declaration of affection to an "I love u" text and find men addicted to their mobile phones a major turnoff.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Feb 13, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Groupon fails to turn profit as revenue grows

Daily deals site Groupon on Wednesday issued its first earnings report as a publicly traded company, saying it failed to turn a profit despite revenue nearly tripling from a year earlier.

Technology / Business

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Monogamy reduces major social problems of polygamist cultures: study

In cultures that permit men to take multiple wives, the intra-sexual competition that occurs causes greater levels of crime, violence, poverty and gender inequality than in societies that institutionalize and practice monogamous ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jan 23, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (12) | comments 15 | with audio podcast

'Alien' eggs benefit mockingbirds

(PhysOrg.com) -- Mockingbirds rarely remove the ‘alien’ eggs parasitic cowbirds lay in their nests because keeping them dilutes the risk of their own eggs being attacked.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

The future cometh: Science, technology and humanity at Singularity Summit 2011 (Part II)

(PhysOrg.com) -- In its essence, technology can be seen as our perpetually evolving attempt to extend our sensorimotor cortex into physical reality: From the earliest spears and boomerangs augmenting our arms, horses and ...

Technology / Other

created Dec 02, 2011 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (23) | comments 42 | with audio podcast feature

New simulations suggest runaway stars may be outcasts from binaries

(PhysOrg.com) -- For at least half a century, astronomers have been perplexed by so-called runaway stars; big monsters that hurtle around galaxies at some thirty kilometers per second without apparent reason. Now however, ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 18, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 5 | with audio podcast report


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