Research finds customers' fixation on minimum payments drives up credit card bills October 06, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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New research by the University of Warwick reveals that many credit card customers become fixated on the level of minimum payments given on credit card bills. The mere presence of a minimum payment is enough to reduce the ... | |
Social problems dominate concerns in neighborhoods with unsatisfied residents October 06, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
A new study reveals that the general appearance of a neighborhood is the single most important factor affecting how satisfied residents are about the area where they live. | |
 Earliest Animal Footprints Ever Found -- Discovered in Nevada October 05, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 28 vote(s)
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The fossilized trail of an aquatic creature suggests that animals walked using legs at least 30 million years earlier than had been thought. The tracks -- two parallel rows of small dots, each about 2 millimeters ... | |
Time of day influences yield for pharmacologically stimulated stem cell mobilization October 08, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
A new study uncovers a previously unrecognized, species-specific impact of circadian rhythms on the production of mobilized stem cells. The research, published by Cell Press in the October 9th issue of the journal Cell ... | |
Food for thought -- regulating energy supply to the brain during fasting October 05, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 23 vote(s)
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If the current financial climate has taught us anything, it's that a system where over-borrowing goes unchecked eventually ends in disaster. It turns out this rule applies as much to our bodies as it does to economics. Instead ... | |
 arXiv online scientific repository hits milestone October 09, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Reinforcing its place in the scientific community, the arXiv repository at Cornell University Library reached a new milestone in October 2008: Half a million e-print postings -- research articles published ... | |
Beavers: Dam good for songbirds October 08, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
The songbird has a friend in the beaver. According to a study by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), the busy beaver's signature dams provide critical habitat for a variety of migratory songbirds, particularly in the ... | |
A key mechanism regulating neural stem cell development is uncovered October 08, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
A research team at the Institut de recherches cliniques de Montreal (IRCM), funded by the Foundation Fighting Blindness – Canada and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), discovered a novel mechanism that regulates ... | |
Venus flytraps caught in shrinking natural habitat October 05, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(AP) -- Laura Gadd pauses at the edge of a pristine savanna, delicately lifting her feet to avoid trampling any venus flytraps hidden underfoot. | |
Children aware of white male monopoly on White House October 05, 2008 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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Challenging the idea that children live in a color or gender blind world, a new study from The University of Texas at Austin reveals most elementary-school-age children are aware there has been no female, African-American, ... | |
Some countries sidestep Kyoto rules with land 'donations' October 09, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(PhysOrg.com) -- When is a park a meaningful piece of protected land and when is it merely a political gesture? | |
Turf wars: Sand and corals don't mix October 08, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
When reef fish get a mouthful of sand, coral reefs can drown. That's the latest startling evidence to emerge from research into the likely fate of reefs under climate change and rising sea levels, at the ARC Centre of Excellence ... | |
Turning freshwater farm ponds into crab farms October 09, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Work by researchers at North Carolina State University is leading to a new kind of crab harvest – blue crabs grown and harvested from freshwater ponds, instead of from the sea. | |
New research may help to design better gene therapy vectors October 07, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
(PhysOrg.com) -- Research published by scientists from the University of Reading may offer an insight into ways of making safer and more specific gene therapy vectors. The research, published in the journal Nature Structural ... | |
Discovery of natural compounds that could slow blood vessel growth October 04, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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Using computer models and live cell experiments, biomedical engineers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have discovered more than 100 human protein fragments that can slow or stop the growth of cells that ... | |
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