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May 08, 2012 03:47 PM EDT

GW Professor's Research on Ancient Ballgame Reveals More about Early Mesoamerican Society

George Washington University Professor Jeffrey P. Blomster's latest research explores the importance of the ballgame to ancient Mesoamerican societies.

May 08, 2012 02:32 PM EDT

Are Women with a History of Violent Experiences More Likely to Have Risky Sex?

Women who have experienced multiple forms of violence, from witnessing neighborhood crimes to being abused themselves, are more likely to engage in risky sexual behavior, according to a new report in the Psychology of Violence.

May 07, 2012 04:02 PM EDT

Inside Hitlerâ€™s Mind

A secret report, previously unknown to historians, shows how British Intelligence was tracking Hitler's growing preoccupation with "the enemy within" on the eve of the Final Solution.

Apr 27, 2012 01:08 PM EDT

Can Nature's Beauty Lift Citizens from Poverty?

Using nature's beauty as a tourist draw can boost conservation in China's valued panda preserves, but it isn't an automatic ticket out of poverty for the humans who live there, a unique long-term study shows.

Apr 27, 2012 11:19 AM EDT

Oldest Human Ancestor Found in Lake Sludge

Mankind's remotest relative is a very rare micro-organism from south-Norway. The discovery may provide an insight into what life looked like on earth almost one thousand million years ago.

Apr 26, 2012 04:40 PM EDT

Genes Shed Light on Spread of Agriculture in Stone Age Europe

One of the most debated developments in human history is the transition from hunterâ€‘gatherer to agricultural societies. This week's edition of Science presents the genetic findings of a Swedishâ€‘Danish research team, which show that agriculture spread to Northern Europe via migration fr...

Apr 26, 2012 04:25 PM EDT

Summer Olympic Athletes Must Overcome Skin Conditions to Reach for the Gold

The Olympics are all about the "thrill of victory and the agony of defeat." But for many Summer Games athletes, there's also the agony of skin irritations and conditions that can make the journey to the medal stand more difficult.

Apr 26, 2012 03:20 PM EDT

MIT Researchers Find a Way to Make Glass thatâ€™s Anti-fogging, Self-cleaning and Free of Glare

One of the most instantly recognizable features of glass is the way it reflects light. But a new way of creating surface textures on glass, developed by researchers at MIT, virtually eliminates reflections, producing glass that is almost unrecognizable because of its absence of glare - and whose sur...

Apr 26, 2012 12:26 PM EDT

How Twitter Broke Its Biggest Story, #WeGotBinLaden

Nearly a year after U.S. Special Forces killed Osama bin Laden, the events of May 1, 2011 remain one of the busiest traffic periods in Twitter history. More than 5,000 tweets were sent per second when Twitter became the first source with news of bin Laden's death. But how did the news break and quic...

Apr 26, 2012 10:39 AM EDT

Women Have Bigger Pupils than Men

From an anatomical point of view, a normal, non-pathological eye is known as an emmetropic eye, and has been studied very little until now in comparison with myopic and hypermetropic eyes. The results show that healthy emmetropic women have a wider pupil diameter than men.

Apr 26, 2012 09:14 AM EDT

Which Ads Are Winners? Your Brain Knows Better than You Do

Advertisers and public health officials may be able to access hidden wisdom in the brain to more effectively sell their products and promote health and safety, UCLA neuroscientists report in the first study to use brain data to predict how large populations will respond to advertisements.

Apr 25, 2012 01:22 PM EDT

Thinking in a Foreign Language Helps Economic Decision-making

In a study with implications for businesspeople in a global economy, researchers at the University of Chicago have found that people make more rational decisions when they think through a problem in a non-native tongue.