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Study finds bullies and victims suffer equally
20/03/2014 - 13:45
According to Shahar, these findings have relevance for both the basic scientific understanding of adolescent violence and the development... →
Africa's air pollution underestimated in climate change models
14/03/2014 - 19:31
In order to fill this gap, the researchers drew up anthropogenic emission maps for 2005 for every country in Africa. To do this, they used... →
Blurred lines? Sexual boundaries are not really all that blurred
09/03/2014 - 18:56
"As noted recently by President Obama, sexual assault continues to be a pervasive problem in our society," added Jeanette Norris, a senior... →
Israeli researchers use nanotechnology to target drug-resistant ovarian tumors
04/03/2014 - 15:12
“Tumors become resistant very quickly. Following the first, second, and third courses of chemotherapy, the tumors start pumping drugs out... →
History of fear in America
24/02/2014 - 16:45
So you go back to the early years, the terrible enemy was the Indians, who were going to destroy us. The colonists were, of course,... →
Online trolls are psychopaths and sadists, psychologists claim
18/02/2014 - 16:37
It went on to claim that trolls are “agents of chaos” that exploit “hot-button issues” to inflame and exploit users’ emotions, "If an... →
Thatcher's policies condemned for causing 'unjust premature death'
14/02/2014 - 13:32
The researchers use figures from bodies such as the Office for National Statistics and the World Health Organisation, which show high... →
Galaxies stash mass in clouds of gas
05/02/2014 - 13:57
And that cooler gas has much more mass than scientists previously estimated, Jessica Werk reported Jan. 7. She presented her new findings... →
The brain can monitor decisions it has made
30/01/2014 - 17:30
What the professor doesn't mention is the emotional trauma that the brain must register for having made a crap decision. Like the split-... →
Carthaginians sacrificed own children
23/01/2014 - 18:41
Quinn and her colleagues, a group of Punic archaeologists and historians from Italy and the Netherlands, who publish their findings in the... →
Turning Off "Aging Genes"
18/01/2014 - 22:31
Some of the genes that the MTA identified were already known to extend the lifespan of yeast when turned off. Of the other genes she found... →
Israeli insight into depression could lead to new fast-acting drugs
12/01/2014 - 13:02
Of mice and microglia Most research into clinical depression targets the brain’s neuron cells, while the involvement of other types of... →

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