Other Sciences News

Mar 9, 2012 by News Staff

A team of researchers from the Catholic University of Brasilia, A Coruña University in Spain and the James Cook University in Australia has found that the level of stress in soccer referees is linked to their nervous system, but not to the physical condition as previously thought. A referee shows a yellow card (Jason Gulledge) In the study, published in the European Journal of Applied Physiology, the researchers measured the activity of Spanish soccer...

Mar 5, 2012 by News Staff

Researchers have for the first time demonstrated that gravity plays a role in the formation of molecular aggregates, and that it can even be used to make...

Feb 29, 2012 by News Staff

A team of scientists from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich and Empa, the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and...

Feb 28, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of researchers from the University of Warwick and Indiana University has found that humans move between patches in their memory using the same strategy...

Feb 10, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

According to a team of researchers from the Northumbria University, UK, their new study could explain why Fabio Capello recently quit as England manager...

Feb 1, 2012 by News Staff

A team of UK researchers has revealed how the arrival of the first plants 470 million years ago triggered a series of ice ages. The moss Physcomitrella...

Feb 1, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of researchers from the University of Montreal has revealed that emotional responses differ between men and women, and that a woman’s memory of...

Jan 6, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

For the first time, Canadian researchers have suggested that the Earth’s most severe mass extinction was caused by an influx of mercury into the eco-system. In...

Dec 18, 2011 by James Freeman

British scientists have proved a hypothesis that said human fine body hair plays a defensive function against parasites such as bed bugs and fleas. The...

Dec 5, 2011 by News Staff

Researchers have found that people with bad credit scores are more impatient, stated in a press release from the Association for Psychological Science. The...

Dec 1, 2011 by News Staff

The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry announced today new proposed names for elements 114 and 116, stated in a press release from the Lawrence...

Dec 1, 2011 by James Freeman

Researchers have found that parents of newborns show poorer adjustment to their new role if they believe society expects them to be perfect mothers and...

Nov 30, 2011 by News Staff

Scientists from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have found that the atmosphere of Earth just 500 million years after its creation was not a methane-filled...

Nov 29, 2011 by News Staff

Norwegian researchers have found that even small changes in pub and bar closing hours seem to affect the number of violent incidents, stated in a press...

Nov 28, 2011 by News Staff

Original thinkers are more likely to cheat than less creative people, possibly because this talent increases their ability to rationalize their actions,...

Nov 23, 2011 by James Freeman

The study of the late Middle Pleistocene archaic human cranium found in Maba, China, brings new evidence of interhuman aggression occurred 129,000 years...

Nov 22, 2011 by Natali Anderson

A team of scientists led by chemist Robert Doyle demonstrated, for the first time, that a critical hormone that helps people feel full after eating can...

Nov 18, 2011 by News Staff

Researchers from University of California Irvine, HRL Laboratories and the California Institute of Technology have developed the world’s lightest material...

Nov 17, 2011 by James Freeman

The birth of the Gamburtsev Subglacial Mountains buried beneath the vast East Antarctic Ice Sheet — a puzzle mystifying scientists since their discovery...

Sep 26, 2011 by Natali Anderson

Researchers from MIT and Children’s Hospital Boston have built cardiac patches studded with tiny gold wires that could be used to create pieces of tissue...