Science & Technology - Mar 4, 2010 13:28 - 1 Comment
Dino-cousin stars in Triassic prequel
U. TEXAS (US)—The discovery of a dinosaur-like animal living 10 million years earlier than the oldest known dinosaurs has researchers asking if dinosaurs and other close relatives such as pterosaurs (flying reptiles) might have lived much earlier than previously thought. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Mar 3, 2010 12:26 - 0 Comments
Known drugs may help veterans with PTSD
U. TEXAS (US)—Drugs that have shown success in clinical trials for Alzheimer’s and Huntington’s diseases may also be useful in treating post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). (more…)
Earth & Environment - Jan 21, 2010 14:55 - 4 Comments
Planet’s most biodiverse corner under threat
U. TEXAS-AUSTIN/NYU—A team of scientists has documented that Yasuní National Park, in the core of the Ecuadorian Amazon, shatters world records for a wide array of plant and animal groups, from amphibians to trees to insects. (more…)
Society & Culture - Jan 18, 2010 11:50 - 10 Comments
Fido or Fluffy: What’s your pet personality?
U. TEXAS-AUSTIN—Dog people tend to be agreeable extroverts and cat people are more open and neurotic, new research shows. (more…)
Best of 2010, Science & Technology - Jan 11, 2010 17:27 - 31 Comments
I’m so fantastic (if I ignore my frontal lobes)
U. TEXAS-AUSTIN—The less you use your brain’s frontal lobes, the more you see yourself through rose-colored glasses, new research shows. (more…)
Earth & Environment, Science & Technology - Dec 10, 2009 16:43 - 3 Comments
Meat-eating dino alters evolutionary tree
TEXAS-AUSTIN (US)—Discovery of a nearly complete skeleton of a previously unknown meat-eating dinosaur may answer questions about early dinosaur evolution and a period of explosive diversification when dinosaurs spread across the supercontinent Pangaea. (more…)
Society & Culture - Dec 1, 2009 16:57 - 4 Comments
Facebook profiles reveal true self
TEXAS-AUSTIN (US)—Online social networks such as Facebook are being used to express and communicate real personality, instead of an idealized virtual identity, according to new research from psychologist Sam Gosling. (more…)
Society & Culture - Oct 12, 2009 19:29 - 1 Comment
Toddlers follow their own grammar rules
TEXAS-AUSTIN (US)—Using advanced computer modeling and statistical analysis, a linguistics professor has found that toddlers develop their own individual structures for using language that are very different from what we traditionally think of as grammar. (more…)
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