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Wednesday, February 1, 2012

ScienceDaily: Living Well News

ScienceDaily: Living Well News


Testosterone makes us less cooperative and more egocentric

Posted: 31 Jan 2012 06:02 PM PST

Testosterone makes us overvalue our own opinions at the expense of cooperation, new research has found. Higher levels of testosterone were associated with individuals behaving egocentrically.

Partisans not locked in media 'echo chambers,' study finds

Posted: 31 Jan 2012 12:00 PM PST

Despite the fears of some scholars and pundits, most political partisans don't avoid news and opinion sources that contradict their own beliefs, according to a new study.

Risk-based passenger screening could make air travel safer

Posted: 31 Jan 2012 10:57 AM PST

Intensive screening of all airline passengers actually makes the system less secure by overtaxing security resources, while risk-based methods increase overall security, according to new research. The researchers developed three algorithms dealing with risk uncertainty in the passenger population. Then, they ran simulations to demonstrate how their algorithms could estimate risk in the overall passenger population and how errors in this estimation procedure can be mitigated to reduce the risk to the overall system.

Are diet soft drinks bad for you?

Posted: 31 Jan 2012 06:27 AM PST

A new study finds a potential link between daily consumption of diet soft drinks and the risk of vascular events.

Overweight mothers who smoke while pregnant can damage baby's heart, study finds

Posted: 30 Jan 2012 03:45 PM PST

Mothers-to-be who are both overweight and smoke during their pregnancy risk damaging their baby's developing heart, according to new research.

Mom's love good for child's brain

Posted: 30 Jan 2012 02:01 PM PST

School-age children whose mothers nurtured them early in life have brains with a larger hippocampus, a key structure important to learning, memory and response to stress. The new research, by child psychiatrists and neuroscientists, is the first to show that changes in this critical region of children's brain anatomy are linked to a mother's nurturing.

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