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Jan 16, 2013 12:48 PM EST

Flu Disrupts Church Services and Soccer Games, High-Fives Banned

Flu season disrupts church services and soccer games: no handshakes, no high-fives, and no hugs.

Jan 16, 2013 12:02 PM EST

Can Children Outgrow Autism? New Study Suggests They Can

New findings published in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry found that some children who were accurately diagnosed with autism lost their symptoms as they aged.

Jan 16, 2013 09:26 AM EST

Can Leadership be Inherited? New Study Suggests Leaders Born

A new study published online in Leadership Quarterly indicates that our DNA may have more to do with our leadership abilities than we first realized.

Jan 14, 2013 03:13 PM EST

30% of US Teen Girls in Study met up with Online Strangers

Thirty percent of the teenage girls in a study had a real-life meeting with people they first met online, showing a prevalence of risky online behavior. The result was found in the context of a wider study by the same researchers on high-risk Internet behaviors, and was published in the journal Pedi...

Jan 11, 2013 02:21 PM EST

Artificial Poop Could Fight Off Stomach Infections

Researchers have created an artificial "poop" aimed at treating recurrent infections of C. difficile, a toxin-producing bacterium that causes severe stomach irritations.

Jan 08, 2013 06:15 PM EST

Brief interruptions spawn errors in surprising quantity

Short interruptions and distractions - like from emails, mobile phone notifications etc - have a surprisingly large effect on one's ability to accurately complete a task, according to new research by Michigan State University psychologists.

Dec 31, 2012 11:15 AM EST

World’s oldest wooden wells excavated in Germany

Up to 7,400-year-old wooden structures for water wells were discovered by German archaeologists which suggest that prehistoric farmers had unexpectedly refined carpentry skills. The results "contradict the common belief that metal was necessary for complex timber constructions", and question the cur...

Dec 27, 2012 06:11 PM EST

Ancient temple and relics from 2750-years ago found in Israel

Archaeologists announced this week that they have found a 2,750-year-old temple in Israel, close to Jerusalem, filled with pottery and clay figures which might have been the site of a ritual cult.

Dec 27, 2012 03:41 PM EST

Expressing negative emotions could extend lifespan

German researchers just published a study that shows statistically that people who constrain themselves and don't express anger live on average 2 years shorter than individuals who do.

Dec 27, 2012 11:29 AM EST

Sex matters in virtual worlds, females more naked, says avatar study

Virtually more naked: Female avatars expose substantially more skin than males in the virtual world of Second Life, according to research just published in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Matthieu Guitton and colleagues from Laval University, Canada.

Dec 26, 2012 04:18 PM EST

Marijuana use of teens and psychosis are linked bidirectional

Marijuana use of teens was statistically linked to psychosis, while also finding teens with preexisting psychotic issues to be more likely to consume pot in later years, according to a new study from researchers in the Netherlands.

Dec 26, 2012 01:12 PM EST

Human evolution was critically influenced by climate fluctuations says study

Human evolution could have been accelerated by rapid environmental changes that happened around 2 million years ago in East Africa, instead of a slow one time change in climate, as previously thought. Researchers at Penn State and Rutgers University found that "the landscape early humans were inhabi...