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Artists have an implicit understanding of a universal biological principle: "people have limited attentional resources."
First instituted over 60 years ago to help care for war orphans, the schools eventually began to attract a more moneyed clientele. Today, supporters say they promote independence, while critics say they leave some kids feeling abandoned.
Prof. David Nutt is a man who needs no introduction. The expert psychiatrist, neuropsychopharmacologist and Chair of the Independent Scientific Committee on Drugs (ISCD) was made world famous by former […]
Following on other restrictions designed to "clean up" airwaves, officials have announced that, among other rules, infomercials can only air for a maximum of three minutes per hour, and breast firming products can't be advertised at all.
From Aeroflot to McDonald's and many other businesses in between, a new wave of service training aims to change the country's famously infamous treatment of customers.
According to a new study, the number of planets in our galaxy that could potentially support life as we know it could be as high as 40 billion.
Shortly after being hired by Equinox Fitness in 2004, the manager at one New York City club called a meeting for movement instructors of every discipline. Gathered one afternoon in […]
A Big Idea Prize has been announced that will award a full-ride scholarship to a Presidio degree program for the best "Big Idea" to move the needle in sustainability.
The plan would allow the world's space agencies to share information about potentially dangerous asteroids, create a special task group to detect smaller asteroids, and collaborate on ideas for diverting them from Earth.
What people often don’t tell you before you get to work is how important all of those things that aren’t part of our job description are.
Analytical thinking is not so hot at creating something that does not now exist. Intuitive thinking is not so hot at keeping the trains running. And so you need a combination of those two things.
By creating a computer-generated 10-year-old Filipina girl, Terre des Hommes Netherlands drew attention to the growing problem of webcam child sex tourism. To date they've given the identities of over 1,000 predators to authorities.
Engaging men in the advancement of women is the new frontier for every company in the 21st century.
Instead of predicting what a human might do, this computer is incredibly fast at recognizing what a human is doing.
Last week, the Syrian Electronic Army briefly hacked President Obama’s official Twitter account and claimed to have accessed some of his sensitive campaign emails. And this follows months of speculation that Chinese […]
"Today I'm going to work on my water machine to supply clean water to 4 billion people." Dean Kamen wouldn't be able to say that unless he happened to be an eternal optimist.
Brigham Young researchers discovered that the type and frequency of texts sent between people in committed relationships reflected the quality of that relationship.
These two images represent what is known as a hybrid eclipse, which involves both a total eclipse and an annular eclipse. That is what happened this weekend. The image comparison above is from 2005.
Anecdotal evidence has now been backed up by research: Using eyetracking technology, scientists found that both men and women looked at sexualized body parts when asked to evaluate appearance.
Until now, it was hard for geneticists to tell which parent or family line was the source of a particular genetic variant. The technique will enable improved risk assessment for diseases and refine organ matches for donors and recipients.