On the 40th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade, more young people identify as “pro-choice”…
Month: January 2013
Powerful people better at shaking off rebuffs, bonding with others
Employees often tiptoe around their bosses for fear of offending them. But new research shows…
Ancient Earth’s geochemistry: Some tectonic processes driving volcanic activity occurred 3.8 billion years ago
Researchers still have much to learn about the volcanism that shaped our planet’s early history….
Three questions about HPV vaccination
In 2009, more than 30,000 people in the U.S. learned they had cancer linked to…
Wind in the willows boosts biofuel production: Trees grown diagonally produce five times more biofuel
Willow trees cultivated for ‘green energy’ can yield up to five times more biofuel if…
Air pollution and unhappiness correlated, study of Europeans shows
Researchers in Canada have found a correlation between air pollution and people’s happiness. Their deep…
Handheld mobile device performs laboratory-quality HIV testing
A new handheld mobile device can check patients’ HIV status with just a finger prick,…
Improved stink bug trapping methods
Baited black traps in a pyramid shape attract significantly more brown marmorated stink bugs than…
Semen quality of young men in south-east Spain down by 38 percent in the last decade
The first comparative study on the evolution of sperm quality in young Spanish men over…
Severe climate jeopardizing Amazon forest, study finds
An area of the Amazon rainforest twice the size of California continues to suffer from…