Consumers change their minds often when making choices that involve conflicting goals, according to a…
Month: July 2012
Selling on eBay? Get higher bids with a red background
The color red influences consumers to become more aggressive in online auctions and affects how…
Why does the week before your vacation seem longer when you’re going far away?
Consumer decision-making is affected by the relationship between time and spatial distance, according to a…
3-D motion of cold virus offers hope for improved drugs using Australia’s fastest supercomputer
Researchers are now simulating in 3-D, the motion of the complete human rhinovirus, the most…
A bright future — with algae: Diatoms as templates for tomorrow’s solar cells
Long before humankind invented silicon-based solar cells, nature had already found a way to use…
Female money doesn’t buy male happiness: Macho men let their female partner’s higher income threaten their relationship
Macho men whose partners earn more than they do have worse romantic relationships, in part…
Frog calls inspire a new algorithm for wireless networks
Males of the Japanese tree frog have learnt not to use their calls at the…
Glacier break creates ice island twice size of Manhattan
An ice island twice the size of Manhattan has broken off from Greenland’s Petermann Glacier,…
Physicians don’t adequately monitor patients’ medication adherence, study finds
Physicians don’t do as much as they could to ensure that patients adhere to their…
Infants’ recognition of speech more sophisticated than previously known
The ability of infants to recognize speech is more sophisticated than previously known, researchers have…