Macho men are seen as bad choice for long-term love
...fferences, asked over 400 British men and women to judge digitally altered pictures of male faces made to l...out what they see, personality wise, when asked to judge a book by its cover. They may well use that impression of someone to decide whether or not to en...JCI table of contents -- June 1, 2007
...g/article.php?id=32482 NEUROBIOLOGY Dont judge a book by its cover: Interleukin-1beta turns out to be helpful in Alzheimers disease Individuals with Alzheimers disease (AD) suffer from the formation of amyloid plaques, made up of the peptide amyloid beta (Abeta), in brain tissue. The role, if ...Replacement warhead program poses challenges for weapons complex
...d costs, the panel said that it is not possible to judge the trade-offs in the weapons and the complex among stockpiles with varying mixes of RRWs and existing legacy weapons. Such assessments can only be achieved, the panel noted, when stockpile requirements have been set and cost and schedule predictions...Alternative-fuels pioneer receives first-ever $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Sustainability
...rosperity. In the future people will look back and judge us by how well we responded to this challenge. In addition to the $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Sustainability, the Lemelson-MIT Program also named Timothy M. Swager as the 2007 winner of the $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize today. Swager is the Depa...AAAS honors defenders of evolution with Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Award
...nce. Intelligent design is not biology." A federal judge eventually barred the Pennsylvania public school district from teaching "intelligent design" in biology class, saying the concept is creationism in disguise. In Georgia, Wesley McCoy spoke out against the school board's decision to require an anti...How does your brain tell time?
...odel by asking research volunteers in the study to judge the interval between two auditory tones under a variety of different conditions. The researchers found that volunteers sense of timing was impaired when the interval was randomly preceded by a "distracter" tone. "Our results suggest that the timing...AAAS/EurekAlert! refocus on China with 2007 Fellowships for Science Reporters in Developing Regions
...dation's Beijing office served as the independent judge for the selection process. Additionally, EurekAlert! identified two honorary fellows in recognition of their excellence in science reporting. Chang said that open and unbiased news reporting is on the rise in China, "but there is still great room ...Former Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt to speak at Yale Dam Conference
... to formulate a strong set of criteria by which to judge these projects, rather than just sitting idly by." The construction of large dams is the source of great controversy. Dams often provide flood control, irrigation for agricultural crops, energy as an alternative to fossil fuels or nuclear powe...Weather forecasting technique wins top prize in 2006 Collegiate Inventors Competition
... $3,000 prize. Marcian (Ted) Hoff, a final phase judge and an inductee in the National Inventors Hall of ...healthcare company. Dr. Beutel was a final round judge for the competition. "Abbott is proud to support the Collegiate Inventors Competition to encourage t...Of I robots go solar; new system could drastically reduce herbicide use
...d cameras on the robotic arm that would be used to judge soil properties or plant conditions. "It has a full-blown Windows computer with an 80-gigabyte hard drive and a wireless connection to the Internet," said Gingrich, "so the amount of information we can collect is virtually unlimited."...Judging Science: Prague conference to address future of peer review
...iny - is the only acceptable method to adequately judge the rigour and accuracy of the research. Recently, however the approach has come under fire as a series of high-profile scientific misconduct have exposed its many flaws. The increasing numbers of interdisciplinary research fields and the ever-cha...News tips from the Journal of Neuroscience
...s were in the same orientation, the observer could judge relative depth more accurately than when orientations differed. Thus, in the "real world," the orientation of textures on the surfaces of objects can affect our perception of their relative depth. 4. Mutant α-Synucleins and Cytosolic Catecho...Study provides first-ever look at combined causes of North Atlantic and Arctic Ocean freshening
... 1965 through 1995. "This synthesis allows us to judge which freshwater sources are the largest, but more...cycle puts the parts in a perspective where we can judge their individual and collective impact on ocean freshening and circulation." In recent years, much...Snap judgments decide a face's character, psychologist finds
We may be taught not to judge a book by its cover, but when we see a new face, our brains decide whether a person is attractive and trustworthy within a tenth of a second, according to recent Princeton research. Princeton University psychologist Alex Todorov has found that peo...JCI table of contents: August 1, 2006
...tudy "such drugs need to be carefully evaluated to judge their effects on women of reproductive age and those that are pregnant." TITLE: Fatty acid amide hydrolase deficiency limits early pregnancy events AUTHOR CONTACT: Sudhansu K. Dey Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee USA. Ph...Gene therapy injected into the brains' of mice with Huntington's disease
...ogressively robs patients of the ability to think, judge appropriately, control their emotions and perform coordinated tasks. HD typically begins in mid-life, between the ages of 40 and 50. There is no effective treatment or cure for this fatal illness that affects 30,000 Americans and places another 75,00...Salk research suggests the existence of specialized neurons that distinguish swagger from sway
...wagger or Marilyn Monroe's famously wiggly sway to judge a person's gender based on the way they move. People are astonishingly accurate when asked to judge the gender of walking human figures, even when they are represented by 15 small dots of light attach...NIH panel urges more informed approach to multivitamin/mineral use for chronic disease prevention
... a part, was established in 1977 as a mechanism to judge controversial topics in medicine and public health in an unbiased, impartial manner. NIH has conducted 118 consensus development conferences, and 27 state-of-the-science (formerly "technology assessment") conferences, addressing a wide range of issue...How low can you go? Ants learn to limbo
...overed that ants are able to learn how to visually judge the height of horizontal barriers so that they can successfully crawl under it without slowing down. Tobias Seidl will be presenting his latest research findings at the Annual Meeting for the Society for Experimental Biology on Tuesday 4th April. Des...Smallest Triceratops skull ever found provides clues to dinosaur's growth
..., Berkeley's Valley Life Sciences Building now can judge for themselves. A cast of the foot-long skull from the youngest Triceratops fossil ever found is on display in the building's Marion Koshland Bioscience and Natural Resources Library. The actual skull, also at UC Berkeley and in fragments, is describ...