http://nsyght.com/rss/site/major-breakthrough-in-hiv-treatment Nsyght is a search engine powered by you, your bookmarks, and your friends. en-us 50 Closer and closer...<br />Submited by deusdiabolus 21, November 2008 Fri, 21 Nov 2008 01:00:28 GMT http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/10/071020103343.htm http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/10/071020103343.htm Researchers at UC Irvine's College of Medicine have discovered how chemicals in the brain that are related to the active ingredient of marijuana help regulate body movements and other motor activity in rats.<br />Submited by Biomancer 20, November 2008 Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:24:54 GMT http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/03/990323050735.htm http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/03/990323050735.htm From the page: "“Political conservatives envision a world without God in which baser human impulses go unchecked, social institutions (marriage, government, family) fall apart and chaos ensues,” says McAdams. Liberals, on the other hand, envision a world <br />Submited by nbr 20, November 2008 Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:40:32 GMT http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080924124549.htm http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080924124549.htm Submited by deusdiabolus 21, November 2008 Fri, 21 Nov 2008 01:01:57 GMT http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080924133428.htm http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080924133428.htm Or at least the Latino and Asian kids.<br />Submited by deusdiabolus 21, November 2008 Fri, 21 Nov 2008 01:01:56 GMT http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080903134209.htm http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080903134209.htm [...] and 80 percent by 2050 and possibly exceed those numbers if a combination of strategies are implemented, including reducing fuel consumption, increasing fuel efficiencies and fuel carbon content and by using new methods for designing communities.<br />Submited by meryn 20, November 2008 Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:53:57 GMT http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080722072030.htm http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080722072030.htm Submited by nascent26 20, November 2008 Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:57:34 GMT http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/04/060410162259.htm http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/04/060410162259.htm The largest randomized study of breastfeeding ever conducted reports that breastfeeding raises children's IQs and improves their academic performance, a McGill researcher and his team have found.<br />Submited by meryn 20, November 2008 Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:53:30 GMT http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080505162902.htm http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080505162902.htm Amplifying feedbacks include increased absorption of sunlight as melting exposes darker surfaces and speedup of iceberg discharge as the warming ocean melts ice shelves that otherwise inhibit ice flow.<br />Submited by meryn 20, November 2008 Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:53:24 GMT http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/05/070531073748.htm http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/05/070531073748.htm Researchers at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) have developed an inexpensive solar cell that can be painted or printed on flexible plastic sheets.<br />Submited by meryn 20, November 2008 Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:51:39 GMT http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/07/070719011151.htm http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/07/070719011151.htm Stanford researchers have found a way to use silicon nanowires to reinvent the rechargeable lithium-ion batteries that power laptops, iPods, video cameras, cell phones, and countless other devices.<br />Submited by meryn 20, November 2008 Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:51:39 GMT http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/12/071219103105.htm http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/12/071219103105.htm The "joy of giving" has an anatomical basis in the brain – surprisingly, one that is shared with selfish longings and rewards.<br />Submited by meryn 20, November 2008 Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:51:33 GMT http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/05/070528162351.htm http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/05/070528162351.htm The researchers were most surprised to find that the reliability of Good Samaritans' contributions were at least as high as that of the more reputable registered users' contributions.<br />Submited by meryn 20, November 2008 Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:51:33 GMT http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/10/071017131854.htm http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/10/071017131854.htm American teens are confident they can invent solutions to some of the world's pressing challenges, such as protecting and restoring the natural environment, but more than half feel unprepared for careers in technology and engineering.<br />Submited by meryn 20, November 2008 Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:51:33 GMT http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080116092453.htm http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080116092453.htm Cross-situational learning may go forward non-strategically and automatically, steadily building a reliable lexicon.<br />Submited by meryn 20, November 2008 Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:51:33 GMT http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080129215316.htm http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080129215316.htm Although the results of this study point to a significant value in believing that free will exists, it clearly raises some significant societal questions about personal beliefs and personal behavior.<br />Submited by meryn 20, November 2008 Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:51:33 GMT http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080129125354.htm http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080129125354.htm There is an urgent need for carefully designed, gender-specific research to better understand the relationship of female sex hormones to mood states and disorders.<br />Submited by meryn 20, November 2008 Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:51:31 GMT http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/12/071212201208.htm http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/12/071212201208.htm a pair of researchers from Cornell University and Arizona State University propose a model, based on tug-of-war theory, that may explain the selection pressures that mark the evolutionary transition from primitive society to superorganism.<br />Submited by meryn 20, November 2008 Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:51:32 GMT http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/06/070611094002.htm http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/06/070611094002.htm You wouldn't know it by current world events, but humans actually evolved to be peaceful, cooperative and social animals.<br />Submited by meryn 20, November 2008 Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:51:32 GMT http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/02/050212190551.htm http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/02/050212190551.htm Women who used the oral contraceptive pill may be exposed to long-term problems from low values of "unbound" testosterone potentially leading to continuing sexual, metabolic, and mental health consequences.<br />Submited by meryn 20, November 2008 Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:51:27 GMT http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/01/060104232338.htm http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/01/060104232338.htm More than boys, girls look to their close friends when they make important decisions, such as whether to take math and what math classes to take, confirming how significant peers are during adolescence.<br />Submited by meryn 20, November 2008 Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:51:25 GMT http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/02/080207085618.htm http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/02/080207085618.htm Gilbert: "Whatever road we choose in life requires that we navigate it, and doing so limits our ability to compare that road to its alternatives. Life's untaken roads come to mind much less often than we expect them to."<br />Submited by meryn 20, November 2008 Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:51:17 GMT http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/02/080217102128.htm http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/02/080217102128.htm Convoluted language helps disguise what is being done and reduces accountability, and also ignores and disputes harmful effects. Learning about moral disengagement shines the light not only on the malpractices of others but on ourselves.<br />Submited by meryn 20, November 2008 Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:51:12 GMT http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/12/071204091902.htm http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/12/071204091902.htm The emotion control center of the brain, the amygdala, shows significantly higher levels of activation in males viewing sexual visual stimuli than females viewing the same images,<br />Submited by meryn 20, November 2008 Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:51:07 GMT http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/03/040316072953.htm http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/03/040316072953.htm As researchers continue to explain how sex influences brain function, we will see more diagnostic tools and therapies that successfully account for the biological differences between women and men.<br />Submited by meryn 20, November 2008 Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:50:59 GMT http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/02/080229171609.htm http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/02/080229171609.htm Low maternal education resulted in the highest risk of intellectual disability to offspring compared with other factors such as maternal illness, delivery complications, gestational age at birth, and even very low birth weight.<br />Submited by meryn 20, November 2008 Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:50:59 GMT http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/080305121015.htm http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/080305121015.htm Differences can spring from unique changes in what are known as epigenetic factors, the chemical markers that attach to genes and affect how they are expressed, in some cases by slowing or shutting the genes off, and in others by increasing their output.<br />Submited by meryn 20, November 2008 Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:50:48 GMT http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/02/080215121214.htm http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/02/080215121214.htm Conceptions of technological use introduced hundreds of years ago still influence our adoption of new products and services today.<br />Submited by meryn 20, November 2008 Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:50:44 GMT http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/080317100221.htm http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/080317100221.htm Residents of neighborhoods with higher levels of poverty, lower education, and more female-headed families are less likely than others to exercise, according to the study.<br />Submited by meryn 20, November 2008 Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:50:44 GMT http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/080317123252.htm http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/080317123252.htm "The similarity between human and fly responses to sweeteners is astounding, especially in light of the differences in their taste receptors," notes Gordesky-Gold, a Drosophila (fruit fly) geneticist at Monell..<br />Submited by meryn 20, November 2008 Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:50:44 GMT http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/080317131642.htm http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/080317131642.htm intuition is the result of the way our brains store, process and retrieve information on a subconscious level and so is a real psychological phenomenon which needs further study to help us harness its potential.<br />Submited by meryn 20, November 2008 Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:50:43 GMT http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/080305144210.htm http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/080305144210.htm "People raised in the North American tradition often find it easy to isolate a person from its surroundings, while East Asians are accustom to read the air "kuuki wo yomu" of the situation through their cultural practices,<br />Submited by meryn 20, November 2008 Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:50:43 GMT http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/080305120850.htm http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/080305120850.htm "We demonstrated that above and beyond socioeconomic factors, diet quality is important to academic performance," the authors conclude.<br />Submited by meryn 20, November 2008 Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:50:36 GMT http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/080320105546.htm http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/080320105546.htm The average therapists' responses defined the ranges of intercourse activity times: "adequate," from 3-7 minutes; "desirable," from 7-13 minutes; "too short" from 1-2 minutes; and "too long" from 10-30 minutes.<br />Submited by meryn 20, November 2008 Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:50:19 GMT http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/080331145115.htm http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/080331145115.htm Both men and women in the reached the same conclusions: Angry men deserved more status, a higher salary, and were expected to be better at the job than angry women.<br />Submited by meryn 20, November 2008 Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:50:11 GMT http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080402152707.htm http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080402152707.htm While a plethora of writing exists about adults sleeping as an individual phenomenon, until now there was no book about sharing a bed, even though it's a part of millions of couples' lives.<br />Submited by meryn 20, November 2008 Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:50:10 GMT http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/08/060815160914.htm http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/08/060815160914.htm [Brian Paegel and Gerald Joyce of The Scripps Research Institute, California] have produced a computer-controlled system that can drive the evolution of improved RNA enzymes--biological catalysts--without human input.<br />Submited by meryn 20, November 2008 Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:50:01 GMT http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080408085508.htm http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080408085508.htm "But unless you can switch your mindset to accept the negative facts of everyday life — that these things happen and must be accepted — it becomes very hard to maintain a comfortable level of satisfaction."<br />Submited by merriam 21, November 2008 Fri, 21 Nov 2008 02:46:58 GMT http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/10/071018171415.htm http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/10/071018171415.htm Submited by a1mega 28, January 2008 Mon, 28 Jan 2008 15:20:50 GMT http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/03/990324062736.htm http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/03/990324062736.htm Submited by nbr 20, November 2008 Thu, 20 Nov 2008 07:53:49 GMT http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/10/071005104104.htm http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/10/071005104104.htm Submited by HumbleOpinion 20, November 2008 Thu, 20 Nov 2008 05:32:25 GMT http://www.sciencedaily.com http://www.sciencedaily.com Submited by J__1 21, November 2008 Fri, 21 Nov 2008 02:21:14 GMT http://www.sciencedaily.com/rss/fossils_ruins-rss2.rss http://www.sciencedaily.com/rss/fossils_ruins-rss2.rss