Children who have a good relationship with their teacher may be protected from expressing aggression and being the target of aggression at school. That's the key finding in a new study of Canadian first graders that appears ...
Social Sciences
Oct 26, 2011
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The unification of quantum mechanics and Einstein's general relativity is one of the most exciting and still open questions in modern physics. General relativity, the joint theory of gravity, space and time gives predictions ...
Quantum Physics
Oct 19, 2011
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Cultural scholar Cynthia Wu has spent years studying Chang and Eng Bunker, a pair of Asian-born, co-joined, entrepreneurial, self-promoting "human marvels." "The Bunker twins," she says, "have served for more than 100 years ...
Social Sciences
Aug 16, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Last month, Dr. Michael Stadler and his Computational Biology group at the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research became a member laboratory of the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics. This is ...
Biotechnology
Aug 9, 2011
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Nurture matters - in plants as well as people. Cloned trees raised in different places and environments react differently to drought conditions even though they're genetically identical, scientists have found.
Biotechnology
Jul 25, 2011
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Double your pleasure... Double your fun... Double twin planets found orbiting a double sun! Are you ready for the weird, true and freaky? Then check out what Drs. Stephen Potter and Encarni Romero-Colmenero from the South ...
Astronomy
Jun 15, 2011
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It's pretty remarkable to have one astronaut in a family. But having two? Who happen to be identical twins? And will be in space together at the same time?
Space Exploration
Oct 8, 2010
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Each year in August, the aptly named town of Twinsburg, Ohio, is the site of the largest official gathering of twins in the world. Open to all multiples -- identical and fraternal twins, triplets and quads from newborns ...
Computer Sciences
Sep 8, 2010
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A new study from North Carolina State University shows that genetics play a key factor in whether someone is willing to take a survey.
Social Sciences
Aug 30, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Many people associate viruses with disease. But a largely unexplored world of viruses make their home in the lower intestine, and new research at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis suggests ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 14, 2010
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