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The influence of women in a man's life, from mother to wife to daughter, is likely to make him more generous, according to surveys of the male population and controlled laboratory studies.
A medical researcher at Imperial College London has created a smart knife which can tell doctors within three seconds if a group of tissue is cancerous or not, making biopsies possible during operations.
Recent studies have validated the essentially one-sided story that popular vitamin supplements are associated with high incidents of cancer, heart disease and death.
A pair of French researchers have discovered a virus of record-breaking size and mysterious genetic make up. Only seven percent of its genetic code matches that in existing databases.
A new review of 21 hunter-gather societies indicates that competition for territory may drive conflict, and that when territory is not up for grabs, widespread aggression generally does not occur.
Taking a pill could one day replicate many beneficial effects of exercising, according to a pair of studies that successfully simulated physical workouts at the cellular level.
In 2004, the UK thought it had found a suitable compromise to legalizing same-sex marriage. But civil partnerships, which are equal to marriage in every legal respect, have become insufficient.
The dollar is gaining in value relative to other world currencies, which economists say is due to several very recent changes in the economy as well as long-term growth in the national economy.
In the wake of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, Germany quickly declared that it would phase out nuclear power as a domestic energy source. But now, many of its citizens are crying foul.
In order to combat traffic jams and choking pollution, China will attempt to decrease the amount of cars in its major cities by imposing stricter limits on automobile purchases.
Obstacles are beginning to emerge in China's massive urbanization plan, which will see 250 million farmers migrate from rural settings to urban population centers over the next decade.
Japanese scientists have found that listening to sad music may actually evoke positive emotions, even though the experience of sadness itself is widely considered to be negative emotion.
Making the leap from renting to buying isn't always what it seems. Homeowners spend less time on leisure activities with friends and report that they derived some pain from homeownership.
Opposition to the ideas of others is too often framed in terms of cynicism, resulting in the objector being labeled as steadfastly against action, progress, change, and other forms taken to be universally good.
New research completed at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has identified a specific gene that may help manage our skill level for organizing things logically.
More important than the effect power has on its beholder is the person's intentions, outlook and values. That power corrupts tells us more about the person who held it than about an indelible nature of power.
Researchers at Harvard Business School have found that small mobile devices which close your posture off to the world also close your attention, weakening you ability to engage the world around you.
A new study published in the journal Environmental Research Letters found that air pollution, caused by fine particles capable of penetrating deep into the lungs, is responsible for 2.1 million deaths annually.
Even using unqualified life expectancy figures, the US is falling behind other nations, but we should not be blinded by our attempt to increase longevity without a concern for quality of life.
All that it takes to cope with the death of a loved one is the philosophical habit of turning easily understood ideas into the more difficult practice of how you perceive the world day by day.