Friday, February 17, 2012
Reporter Shadid Dies in Syria
Newswise honors New York Times reporter Anthony Shadid, who died today while on assignment covering the uprising in Syria.
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Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Lovelorn Liars Leave Linguistic Leads
Online daters intent on fudging their personal information have a big advantage: most people are terrible at identifying a liar. But new research is turning the tables on deceivers using their own words.
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Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Mom’s Love Good for Child’s Brain
School-age children whose mothers nurtured them early in life have brains with a larger hippocampus, a key structure important to learning, memory and response to stress. The new research, by child psychiatrists and neuroscientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, is the first to show that changes in this critical region of children’s brain anatomy are linked to a mother’s nurturing.
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Friday, January 20, 2012
Snakes Improve Search-and-Rescue Robots
Georgia Tech researchers have studied the movements of snakes to create more efficient search-and-rescue robots.
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Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Scientists Discover the First Physical Evidence of Tobacco in a Mayan Container
Their discovery represents new evidence on the ancient use of tobacco in the Mayan culture and a new method to understand the ancient roots of tobacco use in the Americas.
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Wednesday, January 04, 2012
Best of 2011: Top News Releases of the Year
The top 10 most popular news releases of 2011 on Newswise
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Wednesday, January 04, 2012
Heather Has Two Mommies, Is Psychologically Healthy
Opponents of same-sex couples adoption and marriage rights have long claimed that children of same-sex parents will suffer psychological damage as a result of their non-traditional upbringing. A new study in the Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics shows that children of same-sex parents experience as good quality of life as those with heterosexual parents
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Friday, December 16, 2011
GDP Up, Happiness Down
Happiness has dropped over the last two years, University of Vermont research shows.
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Thursday, December 01, 2011
Food Served in Children’s Hospitals Is Largely Unhealthy
Given the obesity epidemic among the nation’s young, one would hope that children’s hospitals would serve as a role model for healthy eating. But hospitals in California fall short, with only 7 percent of entrees classified as “healthy.”
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Tuesday, November 22, 2011
People with Early Alzheimer’s Disease May Be More Likely to Have Lower BMI
Studies have shown that people who are overweight in middle age are more likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease decades later than people at normal weight, yet researchers have also found that people in the earliest stages of Alzheimer’s disease are more likely to have a lower body mass index (BMI). A current study examines this relationship between Alzheimer’s disease and BMI. The study is published in the November 22, 2011, print issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
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