Facial attraction -- choice of sexual partner shaped the human face
...in the online, open-access journal PLoS ONE. The face holds the secret to determining the sex of our anc...s and their eyebrows. The shorter and broader male face has also evolved alongside and the canine teeth have shrunk, so men look less threatening to competi...New study warns limited carbon market puts 20 percent of tropical forest at risk
...t still have more than half their forest cover but face current high rates of deforestation. In contrast, 11 HFLD countries with more than half their original forest intact and low rates of current deforestation would receive no credits for standing forests. The minute that you exclude those countries, ...Macho men are seen as bad choice for long-term love
...sed test. Pairs of pictures which only showed the face without any hair, ears, neck, shoulders or clothin...side. The participants were asked to select which face they thought was more of a particular trait and how much more so by clicking on a point of the scale...New survey documents the headaches of computerized medicine
... unanticipated consequences that come with them or face potentially crippling problems, concluded a study led by researchers at Oregon Health & Science University. The researchers found in a survey of 176 hospitals where CPOE systems have been integrated into daily operations that unintended adverse conse...Reading a face is tricky business
EVANSTON, Ill. --- Reading the face of a person who is trying to conceal fear or other... a compliment it is sometimes better to take it at face value rather than read more into it....Wild weather forces farmers to adapt
...tem strategies. To maximize crop production in the face of variable temperatures and precipitation, scientists say farmers may want to adopt a system in which crop sequencing decisions are based upon weather patterns and management goals each year. However, before making the change to a more adaptable cro...Strength of connections between brain regions may affect an adolescent's response to peer influence
...y watched video clips of neutral or angry hand and face movements. Previous research has shown that anger is the most easily recognized emotion. Paus and his team observed 35 10-year-olds with high and low resistance to peer influence, as determined by a questionnaire. The researchers then showed the ch...Study points to new way to predict death risk from torn aorta
...ection. But once they leave the hospital, patients face a one-in-four chance of dying within a few years. And doctors dont have a reliable way of predicting who is most at risk of dying, and who might benefit most from surgery or other treatment. Now, a study published in the July 26 New England Journa...Adult survivors of childhood leukemia exercise less, worsening high risk for obesity and illness
...rs of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) face an increased risk of developing serious health complications as a result of their cancer treatment, for a variety of reasons many avoid simple exercise and healthy lifestyle changes that could reverse the damage, according to a team of researchers ba...Study sheds light on why humans walk on two legs
...mill found in most gyms. The five chimps also wore face masks used to help the researchers measure oxygen consumption. While the chimps worked out, the scientists collected metabolic, kinematic and kinetic data that allowed them to calculate which method of locomotion used less energy and why. The team ...Effects of aging in stem cells
...lecular mechanisms of aging, and why so many of us face a high risk of cancer in our later years. ...Save our reef, save our heritage
...ge in the debate over heritage conservation in the face of climate change....Assessing levies for by-catch could fund conservation measures
...threatened species, there remain many species that face multiple threats and could benefit significantly from this approach, he said....Stem cell specialists face questioning
A top panel of experts will face questions of public and scientific concern on stem cell research during an international conference being held at The University of Manchester this week. The Stem Cell Question Time will be headed by Lord Naren Patel, chair of the UK National Stem ...Germany's embryo protection law is 'killing embryos rather than protecting them'
...an was expected and the German administration must face up to the situation that the 1991 law prevents optimal treatment of the patient and does not protect the embryo either. The law needs to be changed urgently to reflect the current state of the art. It is far worse to kill embryos after they have im...Scientists find endangered grey-shanked doucs in Vietnam
...iskers. Like many primate species in Vietnam, they face an uncertain future due to hunting and habitat loss. A 2006 IUCN assessment determined that 65 percent of Vietnams primate taxa are Endangered or Critically Endangered, making the country one of the highest global priorities for primate conservation....First baby is born after oocytes were matured in the lab and frozen
...hopes. Women who have been diagnosed with cancer face the prospect that the treatment they receive for their disease might make them infertile by destroying their ovarian reserve of oocytes. At present, there is the still experimental option of having the ovarian tissue removed, frozen and then transpla...... all-out war on the body. Those who survive often face serious cardiovascular problems. Scientists examining cardiac function during sepsis have identified macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) as a key factor in heart damage. And antibodies targeted to MIF, so-called anti-MIF antibodies, signific......ains that there are several global problems we now face that present us with an increasingly uncertain fut...em too slow, too flawed and too compromised in the face of the scale and pace of the threat emerging." Wells himself has had personal involvement in the s...Desertification: UN experts prescribe global policy overhaul to avoid looming mass migrations
...ts must overhaul policy approaches to the issue or face mass migrations of people driven from degraded homelands within a single generation, warns a new analysis from the United Nations University. In the analysis for presentation June 28 at UN Headquarters, New York, UNU experts say the loss of soil pr...