January 2012
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Virtual ghost town: Study reveals only 1 in every... →
Is social media platform Twitter a virtual ghost town? That’s what a new research study says: Only 1 in every 4 Twitter accounts are actively posting tweets. Between Twitter’s 2006 launch and January 1, 2012, an estimated 383 million users (108 million in the U.S.) have signed up to either post tweets, or actively follow those who do. But a new study from social media research firm...
New study shows contamination is possible from... →
A new study by researchers at Laval University in Quebec City shows us that paper towels, especially those that are made from recycled paper, could actually carry germs. Researchers also found that contaminants can be found on everyday items including toilet paper, newspapers and business cards.
Main contaminats comes from something called Bisphenal-A, or BPA. The study is the first of its kind...
Study finds laxatives may help kids who wet the... →
First the good news: bed-wetting is actually fairly common among young children. It’s generally a sign that the child’s young bladder has yet to develop enough so that it wakes a happily sleeping kid up, out of a warm bed and into a seat on a cold toilet. According to the Mayo Clinic bed-wetting is still a problem for about 15 percent of kids by the age of 5. Between the ages of 8 and 11, that...
Raising min wage razes jobs: study →
As state Assembly Democrats rolled out a bill to boost the state’s minimum wage yesterday, a new study revealed that such a hike could lead to double-digit job losses among the hardest-to-employ New Yorkers. The proposal to boost the minimum wage by $1.25, to $8.50 an hour, would be the first increase since 2009, when it was raised to meet the federal minimum. But a study by the Washington-based...
New study confirms that mom's love good for... →
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. Their research is published online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Early Edition. This study validates something that...
Federal work pays better, government study finds →
Federal civilian workers, on average, get 16 percent more in wages and benefits than their private-sector counterparts, according to a study released Monday by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. The study found that the pay differential varied significantly by education level but on average, the federal government paid its civilian employees 2 percent higher wages and 48 percent more in...
Pythons likely wiping out Glades mammals, study... →
MIAMI — For the first time, scientists have put numbers to the toll Burmese pythons have had on native wildlife in the Everglades. But one word can sum it up: carnage. In the decade since the giant constrictors started showing up in significant numbers, mammals once among the most common in Everglades National Park have declined dramatically, according to a study published...
Study Finds Romania Vulnerable To Corruption →
By Samuel Rubenfeld A gulf between the law and its implementation leaves Romania vulnerable to corruption, a study found. The study of Romania’s national integrity system, conducted by Transparency International and released Thursday, cited a lack of resources and independence of Romanian institutions from political interference as reasons for the rating. Moreover, the dominance of the...
Study Finds 55 Percent of Nurses Are Overweight or... →
Researchers at the University of Maryland’s School of Nursing found that 55 percent of the 2,103 female nurses they surveyed were obese, citing job stress and the effect on sleep of long, irregular work hours as the cause. The study, which measured obesity using estimates of body mass index, found that nursing schedules affected not only the health of the nurses but the quality of patient...
Study shows marijuana use declining, prescription... →
A recent U.S. government study has revealed a decrease in the use of marijuana and cocaine, in every generation since the 1960s, along with a large increase in the abuse of prescription medication by young people. Richard Miech, professor at the University of Colorado at Denver, presented the statistics and analysis of his study in a lecture titled “Trends in Illegal Drug Use Over the Past 25...
Love Hurts (Other People), New Study Finds →
Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writer Date: 30 January 2012 Time: 01:15 PM ET
SAN DIEGO - The singers who croon Love Hurts are right — but it’s not just jilted partners and unrequited romantics who are at risk. It turns out that romantic love can also burn innocent third parties...
Study Shows New Mattress Can Rev Up Romance →
NEW YORK, NY, Jan 30, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — Could a new mattress be the secret to a better romantic life for couples?
In a new study released just in time for Valentine’s Day, nearly a quarter of Americans surveyed say they experience diminished romance when sleeping on a mattress over ten years old. Of those respondents, 83%...
New IT in the Toilet Study Shows Americans Aren't... →
ALEXANDRIA, Va.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Three-fourths of Americans with mobile phones report they use their phones in the bathroom, according to a new study by 11mark, a new integrated marketing agency. Americans are texting, emailing, and yes – as you may have heard – talking on the phone in the bathroom. Approximately one quarter of Americans report they...
Young children would be 'sad' without internet... →
One in five youngsters under 12 admit they would be lonely without the internetStudy highlights the strong emotional attachment children have to the web By Anthony Bond Last updated at 10:11 AM on 30th January 2012 Almost half of all children under the age of 12 would be sad without access to the internet with one in five admitting they would be lonely. A total of 1,000 youngsters in the...
Sleep-deprived toddlers more likely to have... →
A toddler’s missed naps could lead to more than just the short-term crabbiness familiar to parents of sleep-deprived tots. A lack of afternoon shut-eye could also increase the odds of emotional problems later in life, according to a new study on nap-deprivation in young children. Toddlers need naps, said Monique LeBourgeois, director of the sleep and development laboratory at the University...
Study finds off-campus party hosts drink more than... →
Whether it’s beer, wine or liquor, a new study says that off-campus-party hosts tend to drink more alcoholic drinks than their guests.
The study also found that on any given weekend, at least 10 percent of students could be hosting a party.
Natalie Milliron, a first-year in business marketing, said this research is definitely in line with her personal experiences.
Whenever, I go...
Car parking? Best leave it to the missus! Study... →
By Ray Massey Last updated at 12:19 AM on 30th January 2012 It will leave most male drivers astounded and probably surprise a large proportion of female motorists too. A study today makes the controversial claim that women are actually better at parking. Although they take appreciably longer than men, they are more proficient at finding a space and positioning the car centrally within it. ...
Most Americans underestimate weight and exaggerate... →
When asked, most Americans underestimate their weight and overestimate their height, according to a new study. Whites are more likely to do so than Blacks or Hispanics, the study — which appears in the journal Ethnicity & Disease — found. The study relied on data from the 2007-2008 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey and looked at reports from 2,672 men and 2,671 women,...
Don't blame C-sections for fat kids: study →
By Andrew M. Seaman NEW YORK | Sun Jan 29, 2012 3:48pm EST (Reuters Health) - Kids born by Cesarean section are no more likely to become obese than if they are born vaginally, a new study concludes. Past research from Brazil had found a link between excessive poundage and C-sections, leading some scientists to suggest that not being exposed to...
Study Elaborates on Brainiac Babies →
ISLAMABAD: A new study at Northwestern University has found the evidence that intuitive physics occurs in infants as young as two months. This is the earliest age at which testing can occur. Intuitive physics includes skills that adults use all the time. For example, when a glass of milk falls off the table, a person might try to catch the cup, but they are not likely to try to catch the milk...
Study Reveals Men Have Increasing Obsession With... →
Court House Clinics reveal that men use cosmetic treatments to rid themselves of unwanted body hair as much as women do. LONDON, ENGLAND, January 29, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ — Court House Clinics have revealed a dramatic increase in the number of men undergoing laser hair removal treatments in the past year. The options for men looking to get rid of unwanted body...
Low IQ Reason Behind Conservative Beliefs, Racism... →
In a new study, bound to stir controversy, researchers have found that people with low IQ tend to have socially conservative ideals and prejudiced attitudes toward others, including people of different races and homosexuals. The new study published earlier this month in the journal Psychological Science found that British children with lower general intelligence factor (similar to...
Enema transplant works for stubborn infection,... →
Print Email Share Comments Recommend Tweet For patients with nearly no options to treat a persistent bacterial infection wreaking havoc on their bowels, a transplant of someone else’s fecal matter, delivered by enema, helps heal in nine out of 10 cases, according to a new study. It’s unbelievably effective, said Dr. Neil...
We Feel Hurt Even When Strangers Ignore Us, Study... →
No one likes feeling left out, and a new study shows that even being ignored by a stranger hurts. The study, published in the journal Psychological Science, is based on the idea that people need to feel connected to be happy, and that a person can be negatively affected when even a stranger doesn’t acknowledge his or her presence, researchers said. To test this idea, researchers from...
Study Reveals New Dangers of High Heels →
Updated: 01/26/2012 10:35 AM
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A new study in the Journal of Applied Physiology may make women think twice about wearing towering heels everyday.
Researchers...
Sperm Can Be Stored In Females' Bodies For Years,... →
Sometimes babies come along at inopportune times - after sex, the human body can only delay fertilization for 3 to 5 days. But what if each woman had her own personal sperm bank? What if she could hold on to sperm until she felt ready to get pregnant? Researchers have found many females in the natural world possess the nifty ability to store sperm within their bodies for weeks and even years. In...
Mysterious skin condition 'Morgellons' not... →
Print Email Share Comments Recommend Tweet The cause of a mysterious condition that haunts its sufferers with sensations of crawling bugs and fibrous material embedded in the skin may be one step closer to being found, a new study suggests. The condition, commonly referred to as Morgellons, does not appear to be contagious, according to a...
Brits are more accepting of extramarital affairs... →
Britons are so much more dishonest than in 2000 that extramarital antics, drink-driving, underage sex and lying are seen by many as reasonable behaviour. Some 70 per cent claimed having an affair was never justified at the turn of the century but this dropped to 50 per cent last year. But we are less tolerant of benefit cheats, with 78 per cent condemning them in 2000 and 85 per cent in 2011. ...
Harvard study finds the iPad can be a pain in the... →
Apple sold a record breaking 15.43 million iPads in the last three months of 2011, which means a lot of people are starting to use tablet computers. And with last week’s news that Apple is planning to bring textbooks to the iPad — well, that’s a lot more people who may start to use tablets, too. But, do they know how to use them safely? A new study published by researchers from...
Liberalism spreading among college freshmen,... →
By Matt Krupnick mkrupnick@bayareanewsgroup.com © Copyright 2012, Bay Area News Group Click photo to enlarge Alex Mangels, an 18-year-old freshman from Lafayette, talks about a UCLA survey showing increasingly liberal attitudes among the nation’s university freshman in between classes at the University of California in Berkeley, Calif. Wednesday, January 25, 2012. (Kristopher...
Britons 'more dishonest than 10 years ago', study... →
Britons are less honest than they were a decade ago, research by academics at the University of Essex suggests.
The survey of more than 2,000 adults found that people were apparently more tolerant of lying and extramarital affairs than they were in 2000.
But it also found less tolerance of those that commit…
Study Shows A Messy Desk May Actually Be A Good... →
January 24, 2012 Are bosses or colleagues raising a stink about your cluttered cubicle? Good news! Science may have vindicated your sloppy ways. Life Inc. reported that researchers in the Netherlands conducted a number of experiments that suggest working in a messy environment may actually encourage workers to simplify tasks, promoting clear thinking. Opposite to conventional wisdom, we have...
Study finds no link between fried food and heart... →
Last updated 25 January 2012 Fried food does not increase a person’s risk of heart disease or premature death, according to a new study in the British Medical Journal. But the researchers emphasised that the study was conducted in the Mediterranean - where the main cooking fats are olive and sunflower oil - and that the results may therefore be different in countries where other fats are...
Narcissism especially bad for men's health, study... →
The inflated sense of self-importance common to narcissism can be toxic to relationships, but a new study suggests the personality trait may also harm men’s health.Researchers from the Universities of Michigan and Virginia determined that men who scored high on two destructive narcissistic traits — entitlement and exploitativeness — had markedly higher levels than others of...
Group Meetings Make You Sound Stupid →
TUESDAY,
Jan. 24, 2012 — If you’ve ever felt like long
meetings at work numb your brain, you may not be far off. New research shows
that small-group settings — everything from a meeting at the office
to a cocktail party or a jury deliberation — can alter IQ expression.
“You may
joke about how committee meetings make you feel brain dead, but our findings
suggest that they may make you...
More than one million dogs in Britain are... →
The girl was attacked by a Staffordshire Bull Terrier Photo: ALAMY
By
Murray Wardrop, and Richard Alleyne
6:53AM GMT 24 Jan 2012
The disclosure by the People’s Dispensary for Sick…
Seattle street drunks living rent free drink less,... →
SEATTLE — An experimental place where hardcore alcoholics can live and drink at taxpayer expense has been a lighting rod of controversy in Seattle since it opened. But new evidence from a university study may quiet some critics. Cecil West is an unrepentant alcoholic. He’s lived 18 hard years on the streets and is now battling cancer. But he still hasn’t put the bottle...
Study: Abortion Safer Than Giving Birth →
(New York, NY)
— A legal abortion is apparently
safer than the process of giving birth. A new study says women were 14 times more likely to die during or after
childbirth than they were from complications of abortion. Scientists used a combination of government information and data from
the Guttmacher Institute in the study. They also relied on a Centers for Disease Control and...
Prison study finds link between violence, tobacco →
Published: Mon, January 23, 2012 @ 12:00 a.m. Associated Press COLUMBUS Ohio’s top prison official has asked his department to investigate whether an increase in violence is linked to a tobacco ban and the subsequent use of contraband tobacco as a commodity among inmates. “Tobacco has become a currency that’s used in our prisons,” with a hand-rolled cigarette valued at up to $5, Ohio Department...
Magic mushrooms may aid depression, study finds →
Psilocybin, the active ingredient in so-called magic mushrooms, may help people with depression, based on two studies that suggest that the drug could have an enduring effect on patients. In a study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 30 healthy volunteers took psilocybin intravenously and had their brains observed with magnetic resonance imaging...
Study finds some children born in the year of the... →
[unable to retrieve full-text content] PhysOrg.com Study finds some children born in the year of the dragon have an advantage PhysOrg.com Published in the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization in January 2011, the study finds Asian immigrants to the United States born in the 1976 Year of the Dragon are more educated than comparable immigrants from non-dragon years. and more »
Pomegranate seed oil doesn't cool hot flashes,... →
Print Email Share Comments Recommend Tweet Women taking pomegranate seed oil, marketed as an alternative remedy for menopausal symptoms, got no more relief from hot flashes than women taking a pill containing sunflower oil as a placebo, according to an Austrian study. The study, in which women took the pomegranate seed oil — which...
Study finds binge drinkers average nine drinks at... →
9:01 PM Sunday, January 22, 2012
By Hannah Poturalski Staff Writer College-age drinkers average nine drinks when they get drunk and a quarter of those surveyed said they binged on alcohol at least once a month. The statistics are part of a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention highlighting the dangers of binge drinking, which…
Study: Why Facebook is making people sad →
As Facebook becomes a more powerful influence in our digital lives, researchers are looking into how the social network changes our perception of the lives of friends and family members. According to a new study conducted by sociologists Hui-Tzu Grace Chou and Nicholas Edge at Utah Valley University, research showed a correlation between a Facebook user’s disposition about their life and the...
Study finds bias in Idol judging →
Viewers of television talent contests often believe the best act does not win - and Aussie researchers think they have found some explanations.
A study has found that the later would-be stars perform in a show, the better they are likely to rate.
But performing after a bad act can also rub off on the better performers.
Husband-and-wife team Katie and Lionel Page of the Queensland...
Study: Men spend more if women are few →
In the animal world, an overabundance of males can increase competition and skirmishes among would-be suitors seeking scarce partners. Now, a study finds hints that in the human world, too, a male-female imbalance affects complex mating behaviors, causing men to spend their paychecks faster, take on more debt, and increase the amount they would spend to woo a woman. Economic behavior is clearly...
Tired new dads a safety risk: study →
News in Science Monday, 23 January 2012 Brigid Andersen ABC Mellor says each workplace has its own set of risks (Source: Don Bayley/iStockphoto) Running on empty Fathers of new babies are often so tired they pose a safety risk at work and on the road, a new study has found. The research found fathers of newborns were 36 per cent more likely to have a near miss at work, and 26 per cent more...
Study finds more skiing, snowboarding injuries... →
By Tracey Richardson Posted 17 hours ago W hile hockey hits have been getting a lot of attention in Canada, skiing and snowboarding injuries are more than twice as common, according to new data released earlier this week by the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI). In 2010–2011, there were 2,329 hospital admissions for a skiing or...
'Wingman' Study Shows Empathetic People Lie To... →
By: Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writer Published: 01/20/2012 04:22 PM EST on LiveScience This just in: Researchers have found that a good friend will lie for you, though it helps if you’re in the room when they’re asked to fib. This tendency toward situational dishonesty is especially strong for friends who are high in empathy, presumably because they really feel...
Couch potatoes gain weight without eating →
It has been known for some time that people who watch hours of TV a day tend to
be at higher risk of becoming overweight or obese. The connection was thought to
be because of munching junk food while watching. But Tel Aviv University
researchers have found that not just the eating but also the actual position of
“couch potatoes” is harmful. Being stretched out in front of the TV is
...
