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Ho! Ho! Huh? Researchers Measure Holiday Spirit
The holidays just wouldn't be the same without the decorations. From a single wreath or child's picture of Santa taped to a window, to elaborate displays, the festive season seems to spur the need to express the holiday spirit to our neighbors and kin. But neighborhoods also vary in the vigor of their holiday displays, as anyone who tours the streets of their town or city can attest. And scientists at Binghamton University are using these decorations to measure holiday spirit. Candidate Hookworm Vaccine Shows Benefits In Animal Studyhttp://www.sc
Female Anxiety: Females More Likely To Believe Negative Past Events Pr
New research might help explain higher anxiety levels in women than in men. Women were found to be more likely to believe that negative past events would reoccur in the future. Two studies involving 3- to 6-year olds and adults examined emotions and behaviors in relation to past events. Using characters in stories, girls and women more frequently predicted that characters would be worried about harm from a person who was similar to past perpetrators. [Absurd] Doctor missed 45 stab wounds
A doctor called to the death bed of an 87-year-old man failed to notice he had been stabbed 45 times. Early Years Education Measures Show No Impact, UK Study
A six year comparison of almost 35,000 children in England has shown that there has been no change in developmental levels of pupils entering primary school in this period, despite the introduction of several new early years'initiatives over the past decade, new research reveals. Although there have been massive changes in early years education in the UK in the last few years, children's development and skills at the start of school are no different now than they were before the introduction of the early childhood curriculum, the Sure Start programme, free nursery education for all three year olds and the more recent introduction of the Children's Act 2002 and the Every Child Matters initiative. Steering Atoms Toward Better Navigation, Physicists Test Newton And Ei
Stanford physicist Mark Kasevich has adapted the technology in today's airplane navigation systems to work with atoms so cold that they almost stand still. At temperatures scarcely above absolute zero, atoms no longer behave as particles but rather as de Broglie waves, named for the theorist who originally posited that all matter behaves as both a light wave and as a particle. These waves can be configured to add or subtract, or interfere,with one another in an interferometer-an instrument that is used on airplanes to measure very small changes in rotation. Drilled Shells Show Extinction's Lasting Effects
Give a marine snail an easy life, and it will take its time drilling into a clam. Put it under competitive stress, and it will look for a faster route. Those changes, scarred into fossils, show that an unknown catastrophe nearly two million years ago changed the competitive balance in the Western Atlantic and the ecosystem has yet to fully recover, according to research published this week in the journal Science. Economics Favor Altima Hybrid
When you factor in the tax break and fuel savings, Nissan's Altima hybrid has a payback period of four years or less, making it a no-brainer. In Autopia. Mapping The Neural Landscape Of Hunger
The compelling urge to satisfy one's hunger enlists structures throughout the brain, as might be expected in a process so necessary for survival. But until now, studies of those structures and of the feeding cycle have been only fragmentary -- measuring brain regions only at specific times in the feeding cycle. Space Banana to Soar Over Texas
Why does a Canadian artist want to put a giant fruit blimp in low Earth orbit over the Lone Star State? By Lara Crigger.
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