April 2012
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Study reveals deadly jellyfish secrets →
Scientists have discovered patterns in the life cycle of the lethal box jellyfish which shows when they are most dangerous to humans. Among the more venomous creatures in the world, box jellyfish are regularly sighted near the beaches of tropical Australia. Beaches are often closed in north Queensland during the summer and autumn months when the jellyfish lurk closest to the shore. According...
Study reveals deadly jellyfish secrets →
Scientists have discovered patterns in the life cycle of the lethal box jellyfish which shows when they are most dangerous to humans. Among the more venomous creatures in the world, box jellyfish are regularly sighted near the beaches of tropical Australia. Beaches are often closed in north Queensland during the summer and autumn months when the jellyfish lurk closest to the shore. According...
Study reveals deadly jellyfish secrets →
Scientists have discovered patterns in the life cycle of the lethal box jellyfish which shows when they are most dangerous to humans. Among the more venomous creatures in the world, box jellyfish are regularly sighted near the beaches of tropical Australia. Beaches are often closed in north Queensland during the summer and autumn months when the jellyfish lurk closest to the shore. According...
Study reveals deadly jellyfish secrets →
Scientists have discovered patterns in the life cycle of the lethal box jellyfish which shows when they are most dangerous to humans. Among the more venomous creatures in the world, box jellyfish are regularly sighted near the beaches of tropical Australia. Beaches are often closed in north Queensland during the summer and autumn months when the jellyfish lurk closest to the shore. According...
Study reveals deadly jellyfish secrets →
Scientists have discovered patterns in the life cycle of the lethal box jellyfish which shows when they are most dangerous to humans. Among the more venomous creatures in the world, box jellyfish are regularly sighted near the beaches of tropical Australia. Beaches are often closed in north Queensland during the summer and autumn months when the jellyfish lurk closest to the shore. According...
Study reveals what makes a good or bad tweet →
No one wants to know about your mundane life, at least that’s what the experts tell us. Picture: File Source: Reuters IF you want to be a successful tweeter, keep your opinions to yourself, don’t document the most mundane aspects of your life, don’t engage in long conversations with your followers, and stay away...
Study Shows Six Years of Boxing Can Change Brain →
Study Shows Six Years of Boxing Can Change Brain iStockphoto/Thinkstock(CLEVELAND) — The long term consequences of combat sport are no secret, thanks to high-profile athletes like Muhammad Ali. But a new study suggests that six years of boxing can cause lasting changes in the brain, including shrinkage of areas involved in memory and cognition. We asked the question: Is there a certain...
Study: Shoppers spend more when trying to limit... →
(AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File) The notion that someone will readily spend more than intended seems contrary to common sense. Personal finance experts often recommend setting a budget to keep spending under control. But after conducting several experiments to test consumer thinking, researchers came away convinced that budgeting can actually increase a consumer’s preference for higher-priced, high...
Belief in God grows as mortality nears, survey... →
CHICAGO, April 19 — Belief in God is highest among older people and increases with age, perhaps due to the growing realisation that death is coming closer, University of Chicago researchers said yesterday. Summarising data from surveys performed in 1991, 1998 and 2008 in 30 countries from Chile to Japan, the university’s National Opinion Research Center found that, on average, 43 per cent of...
Cure For Baldness? Mouse Study Shows Human Hair... →
No, it’s not the mouse version of a Mohawk. These creatures, the subjects of a new study, were implanted with follicles made from human cells, which soon took root and grew normally. Only slightly less creepy than this mouse with human ear cells on its back, the animals would even grow their new hairs back if they were plucked out. The team that conducted the research came from...
Study finds women choose to focus on their career... →
Virginia Rometty’s the C.E.O of IBM. And she’s married. Researchers at the University of Texas at San Antonio and University of Minnesota have found that if there are fewer men available in a women’s dating pool she’s more likely to choose a lucrative career. For the paper, published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, the researchers looked at the ratio of single...
Porn May 'Shut Down' Part of Your Brain →
Watching pornography would seem to be a vision-intensive task. But new research finds that looking at erotic movies can actually quiet the part of the brain that processes visual stimuli.
Most of the time, watching movies or conducting any other visual task sends extra blood flow to this brain region. Not so when the movies are explicit, the researchers found. Instead, the brain seems to shunt...
Optimism may avert heart disease, study finds →
WASHINGTON — Be happy — it seems to be good for your heart. Scientists have long known that Type A personalities and people who are chronically angry, anxious or depressed have a higher risk of heart attacks. Now a Harvard review of the flip side of that psychology concludes that being upbeat and optimistic just may help protect against heart disease. Rather than focusing only on how to lessen...
Study shows $75000 a year may lead to ultimate... →
When it comes to finances, more is not necessarily better. Time Magazine cited a study conducted by Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School in a Sept. 6, 2010, article which found that the magic number when it comes to income is about $75,000 per year.
People who make less than that tend to be less happy, but people who make more than that aren’t any happier in their day-to-day lives, the...
Study shows how broad pay disparities are between... →
Women of all ages, races, ethnic backgrounds and education levels — and in almost every line of work — earned less than men, according to a report issued Tuesday by the American Association of University Women.Women in the USA earned 77% of what men earned in 2010, says the report from AAUW, which has advocated for pay equity since 1913. Tuesday was Equal Pay Day, which was started in 1996 by the...
Pew study finds one in five Americans still won't... →
A hardcore 20 per cent of Americans ain’t using the internet and don’t want to neither, according to the latest survey data from the Pew Internet and American Life project. The survey data showed that since 1995 internet use in the US had grown from around 10 per cent to just over 78 per cent in August of last year. The rate of internet use hasn’t changed much in the last few years,...
Survey finds women are more likely than men to do... →
When it comes to right and wrong, women are far more in tune with their moral compass than men, one study finds. A survey taken by over 60,000 volunteers in 200 countries with varying socioeconomic statuses revealed that women tend to make their decisions based on how they will affect others, according to a report from The Telegraph. Men on the other hand, focused more on themselves. The survey,...
People With Tattoos Drink More Alcohol, Shows New... →
By: MyHealthNewsDaily Staff Published: 04/16/2012 04:22 PM EDT on MyHealthNewsDaily People with tattoos drink more than their tattoo-less peers, a new study from France suggests. The researchers asked nearly 3,000 young men and women as they were exiting bars on a Saturday night if they would take a breathalyzer test. Of those who agreed to take it, the researchers found that people with...
Study Probes How Sad Movies Make Viewers Happy →
SATURDAY, April 14 (HealthDay News) — Watching sad movies makes people happier because it causes them to think about their loved ones, a new study finds. Tragic stories often focus on themes of eternal love, and this leads viewers to think about their loved ones and count their blessings, lead author Silvia Knobloch-Westerwick, an associate professor of communication at Ohio State University...
U of I Study Shows Men Are Smarter After A Couple... →
To Alcohol! The cause of… and solution to… all of life’s problems. - Homer Simpson Researchers from the University of Illinois-Chicago discovered that men who are a bit tipsy are better at solving problems than those who were sober. They gave one group of men a couple of beers, putting them at a 0.07 blood alcohol content, and they kept the other group sober. The ones who drank...
Gay Adults Rejected by Parents Have Worse Health,... →
FRIDAY, April 13 (HealthDay News) — Receiving emotional support and acceptance from parents benefits the long-term health of lesbian, gay and bisexual adults, a new study shows. About three-quarters of lesbian, gay and bisexual adults aged 18 to 64 surveyed in Massachusetts said they had revealed their sexual orientation to their parents, typically when they were about 25 years old. About...
Study Shows Women More Likely To Stomp The Wrong... →
Score one for the fellas in the age old male-female debate over who’s a better/safer driver. A National Highway Traffic Safety Administration report released last month shows that although men tend to drive faster and more recklessly, women are far more likely to cause an accident by stomping on the wrong pedal. Of course, when NHTSA factored age into the study, drivers under 20 and older...
Half of US Mail Facilities No Longer Needed, Study... →
Apr 13, 2012 11:44am Image credit: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images A new study on the United States Postal Service shows the mail network is having a hard time keeping up with slimming down as more people turn to texting and email. Released by the Government Accountability Office, the April study highlights the amount of excess in the mail...
Pew survey shows 1 in 5 US adults don't use... →
A new survey released Friday by the Pew Center for Internet and American Life shows that despite the ever-increasing importance of the Internet in daily life, many people either don’t go online at all, or do so only through a smartphone. One in five American adults doesn’t use the Internet at all, according to the survey. Many non-Internet users are seniors, Spanish speakers, adults...
Poor Dental Health Linked to Dementia Onset →
April 13, 2012 — Poor dental health has been linked to an increased risk for dementia, new research shows. In a study of more than 4000 elderly adults in Japan, those who had few teeth and who did not use dentures or who did not visit a dentist regularly had a significantly higher risk for dementia onset than the participants who practiced better dental health practices. The number of dementia...
Passengers less likely than crew to survive... →
Women and children first? A study shows every man for himself was more likely to be the rule on sinking ships. A Swedish study on maritime disasters suggests captains and crew members are 18.7 per cent more likely to survive than passengers when it comes to sinking ships, with the RMS Titanic being the lone exception. The study, which takes into account 15,000 deaths, also finds men were twice as...
Baylor study finds Eagle Scouts socially benefit... →
By Bre Nicols Reporter Baylor Researchers have found members of the Boy Scouts of America who achieve the highest rank, Eagle Scout, have a positive, long-lasting effect on American society in a recent study titled “Merit Beyond the Badge.” The Program on Prosocial Studies of Religion, part of Baylor’s Institute for Studies of Religion, partnered with the Gallup Organization to conduct a...
Worriers Have a Heightened Sense of Smell →
Some people can pinpoint odors better than others—which can be both good or bad, depending on the source. But new research reveals that it’s people who are more anxious that have a heightened sense of smell. The study, published in Chemosensory Perception, looked into how anxiety was related to the ability to detect odor. Participants were asked if they could detect a number of smells—both...
Baboons can recognize written words, study finds →
A baboon from the study performs a word recognition task. (Joel Fagot) Baboons don’t read, don’t speak and perhaps can’t understand language at all. But scientists have found that they can learn to recognize writing on a computer screen, identifying correctly most of the time which combinations of letters are words (done, vast) and which are not (telk, virt). The discovery may...
Doritos Locos Tacos Improved Perception Of Taco... →
If you were to read the comments on one of HuffPost Food’s stories about the much-ballyhooed Doritos Locos Tacos at Taco Bell, you might get the impression that most people were aghast at and offended by the snack. But a new study of consumer attitudes, by research firm BrandIndex, shows that the release of the Doritos Locos Tacos actually boosted brand perception of both Taco Bell and...
A gun in hand makes a man look taller, study says →
The weapon may not make the man, but it certainly makes him loom larger, according to a new study by a team of UCLA researchers. Their study, released Wednesday in the journal PLoS ONE, shows that a person holding a gun seems taller and more muscular in the viewer’s mind than a person holding a tool or other object. The paper, funded by the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research, is...
Women exercise half as much as men, study finds →
NEW YORK- Women are at greater risk of depression and illness because they get half as much exercise as men, researchers have found. Women get an average of just 18 minutes of moderate-to-vigorous exercise a day, compared to 30 minutes for men, resulting in greater odds of developing metabolic syndrome. Metabolic syndrome is a name for a group of conditions - including high cholesterol, high blood...
One-in-five young teens hears voices in their... →
Hearing voices can affect more than a fifth of young adolescents, a psychiatry study has found. Researchers discovered auditory hallucination has an impact on 21% to 23% of children aged between 11 and 13 in Ireland. More than half of those who heard voices - 57% - were also found to have a psychiatric disorder following clinical assessment. Nearly 2,500 children, aged between 11 and 16,...
Study Finds 48% of Chicken Could Be Tainted by... →
There’s a pretty good chance your chicken has been contaminated by poop. Some 120 chickens bought from grocery stores in 10 major cities were tested in a new study, which found that 48% were contaminated by E. coli, an indicator of fecal contamination, the New York Times reports. Most consumers do not realize that feces are in the chicken products they purchase, says the president of the...
Most embezzlers are women, study shows →
As a veteran criminal defense attorney, Craig Cascarano has defended scores of women accused of embezzlement. After his own secretary wrote more than $12,000 in checks to herself with law firm money, the Minneapolis attorney also knew what it felt like to fall victim to one. In an era dominated by male Ponzi schemers who have become household names by bilking investors out of millions, more...
Survey shows high demand for free schools →
Survey shows high demand for free schools 3:06pm Wednesday 11th April 2012 in News By Michael Black A school that...
The lazy sex? Women get half as much daily... →
Women putting themselves at greater risk of depression and metabolic syndrome, warn experts By Claire Bates PUBLISHED: 03:45 EST, 11 April 2012 | UPDATED: 05:54 EST, 11 April 2012 It’s a study sure to ruffle feathers in many a household - researchers have found women are far less likely to exercise for 30 minutes every day than men. A team from Oregon State University...
New research reveals that alcohol makes you... →
If you’re feeling a bit sluggish in the mental department maybe you should sit back, relax and have a pint of your favourite beer. Why? Well researchers have discovered that alcohol has a hidden talent – it can actually make you smarter. The Irish Independent reports that men who drink two pints of beer before they tackle a brain teaser will actually perform better and achieve a higher success...
Deadly car crashes spike 6 percent on tax day,... →
[unable to retrieve full-text content] CTV.ca Deadly car crashes spike 6 percent on tax day, study finds msnbc.com A taxpayer hands off his return at a drive-up postal drop in 2006. New research suggests that the risk of fatal car crashes jumps by 6 percent on the day of the IRS deadline. By JoNel Aleccia Nothing may be certain but death and taxes, but new research … Tax Day Hazardous To...
Study Shows 'Non-Toxic' Nail Polishes to be Toxic →
Certain nail polishes that advertise to be free of toxins have been shown to have high levels of dangerous chemicals that are linked to birth defects, according to a study released Tuesday. (Photo courtesy of Facebook) The Department of Toxic Substances Control investigated 25 random nail polish brands that are commonly found in California salons finding the majority of them were mislabeled. ...
Child's cancer does not boost parents' divorce... →
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Parents of children with cancer may be under emotional strain, but they are no more likely than other couples to split up, a new study concludes.
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Urine May Not Be As Sterile As Once Thought →
April 10, 2012 Researchers have found the presence of bacteria in the bladders of healthy women. While such a finding may seem quite obvious, it does disprove a common theory that urine is a sterile substance. Published in the April issue of Clinical Microbiology, researchers at Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine (SSOM) studied...
Radisson survey reveals nearly half of Americans... →
A new survey released by Radisson reveals that 48 percent of Americans opted not to take a vacation in 2011. Are you one of them? Radisson announced the results of the national survey with Kelton Research that reveals the travel habits, or lack thereof of working Americans. Among them, the survey showed that 48 percent of Americans in 2011 passed on taking a portion of their vacation days,...
Study finds US cable costs rising →
If you’re one of those people who complain that there’s nothing to watch on TV today even though you have a gazillion channels, you’re not going to be happy with this news – turns out, you’re paying more for cable.
The monthly rate for pay TV has been rising at an average of 6 percent annually and hit $86 a month last year for basic pay and premium-channel TV, according to a reported...
Study Finds Peoples' Niceness May Reside in Their... →
Newswise — BUFFALO, N.Y. — It turns out that the milk of human kindness is evoked by something besides mom’s good example. Research by psychologists at the University at Buffalo and the University of California, Irvine, has found that at least part of the reason some people are kind and generous is because their genes nudge them toward it. Michel Poulin, PhD, assistant professor of...
Porn sites account 30% of all Internet traffic,... →
[unable to retrieve full-text content] New York Daily News Porn sites account 30% of all Internet traffic, report finds New York Daily News By Ethan Sacks / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Researchers have found that a whopping 30% of all Internet traffic involves pornographic sites, with the biggest one notching three times the page views of CNN or ESPN, ExtremeTech reported. and more »
Study reveals dieting mums could increase chance... →
A study produced by researchers based at the University of Manchester, has revealed that mums who are dieting at the time of conception may increase the risk of their child being obese or developing diabetes. This conclusion has been reached following a study on sheep, but the scientists believe that the same results would be applicable to humans. According to the researchers, when a ewe...
Obese moms may be more likely to have autistic... →
A new study suggests that a mother’s weight during pregnancy could play a role in her child’s development. NBC’s Michelle Franzen reports. By Linda Carroll Women who are obese when pregnant may have a higher risk of having a baby with autism, a new study indicates. Researchers found that the risk of autism increased by nearly 70 percent when moms were obese during their...
Hidden Bank Fees Cost Consumers Up To 10 Cents... →
WASHINGTON, April 9, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Your bank has its hands in your pocket at the gas pump, and you don’t even know it.
A new study by the National Association of Convenience Stores found that drivers are paying 6 to 10 cents a gallon in hidden bank fees every time they gas up.
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Study Finds 92% of Hospital Privacy Curtains... →
PurThread Technologies is developing privacy curtains, scrubs and sheets with potential to resist bacterial contamination San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) April 09, 2012 For one person in 20, spending the night in a hospital will lead to an infection, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Now, research recently published by the American Journal for Infection Control reveals...
