site.news_by_theme study

©Reuters/Dado Ruvic Facebook under fire over 'creepy' secret study Facebook secretly manipulated the feelings of 700,000 users to understand "emotional contagion" in a study that prompted anger and forced the social network giant on the defensive.
30 June 2014
©Reuters/Mariana Bazo Better care can save 3-m babies, mothers per year The lives of three million women and babies can be saved every year by 2025 for an annual investment of about a dollar per head in better maternity care, researchers said.
21 May 2014
©Reuters/Bobby Yip China youth suicides blamed on education system: study China's high-pressure, exam-driven education system is responsible for the vast majority of suicides by schoolchildren in the country, state media said Wednesday, citing a study.
14 May 2014
©Reuters/Mariana Bazo Pregnant women have more car crashes in 2nd trimester: study A new study out Monday suggests a new hazard to consider while pregnant: driving.
13 May 2014
Only 1 in 7 Japanese scientists are women: study Just a seventh of scientists in Japan are female, government figures show -- the lowest rate of any developed nation, despite being a record high for the country.
16 April 2014
Fish losing survival instinct in acidic oceans: study Fish are losing their survival instinct -- even becoming attracted to the smell of their predators -- as the world's oceans become more acidic because of climate change, new research.
15 April 2014
©Reuters/Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah Only 1 in 5 South African executives are black: study South Africa's workplaces are still heavily racially skewed 20 years after the fall of apartheid, with only one fifth of top executive positions held by blacks, said a report published Wednesday.
10 April 2014
Photo courtesy of news.nationalgeographic.com 'Chicken from hell' sheds new light on bird-like dino Nicknamed the "chicken from hell," a newly identified species of feathered dinosaur as tall as a human roamed North America at least 66 million years ago.
21 March 2014
©Reuters/Eddie Keogh Women half as likely as men to study science: survey Women are being put off careers in science by stereotypes and are less than half as likely as men to apply for degrees in the field.
20 March 2014
The 10-meter South Pole Telescope and the BICEP (Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization) Telescope. ©Reuters/Keith Vanderlinde Major discovery bolsters Big Bang theory of universe Waves of gravity that rippled through space right after the Big Bang have been detected for the first time, in a landmark discovery that adds to our understanding of how the universe was born.
18 March 2014
©Reuters/Lucas Jackson Future warming imperils Statue of Liberty: study The sightseer of 4014 may have to pay a virtual visit to the Tower of London or Statue of Liberty, said a climate study Wednesday that warned of dramatic ocean encroachment on heritage sites.
05 March 2014
Lou Gehrig's disease. Photo courtesy of wikipedia.org High-calorie diet may slow Lou Gehrig's disease A diet rich in calories and carbohydrates may slow progression of the lethal, degenerative Lou Gehrig's disease.
03 March 2014
General Electric Chairman and CEO Jeffrey Immelt. ©Reuters/Mike Theiler GE to hike pro-environment energy research by $10 bn US industrial conglomerate General Electric said Monday it would boost spending on environmentally friendly energy research by $10 billion by 2020, including on fracking technologies and wind turbines.
25 February 2014
Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. ©Reuters/Toru Hanai Japan public sceptical on death penalty: study Japan's public is less enthusiastic about capital punishment than government research shows, a new study has claimed, amid an acceleration in the rate of executions under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
20 February 2014
Study merges worldwide data on sex assaults on women Worldwide, one woman in 14 has been sexually assaulted by someone other than a partner, according to the first global estimate of the problem.
12 February 2014
Photo courtesy of healthguru.sg Yoghurt consumption linked to lower diabetes risk Eating yoghurt and low-fat cheese can cut the risk of developing diabetes by around a quarter compared with consuming none.
06 February 2014
©Reuters/Enrique Castro-Mendivil Sex, pregnancy poorly understood by women: US study Women are often in the dark when it comes to basic facts about sex, fertility, pregnancy and their own reproductive health, according to a US study Monday.
28 January 2014
US kids read little on e-readers, tablets: study Two-thirds of young children in the United States now have access to an e-reader or tablet, but only half of them actually use the device to read.
24 January 2014
Texting while walking impairs stride, poses risks: study Texting while walking impairs a person's ability to follow a straight line and keep a normal pace, and may pose risks to pedestrians according to a study out.
23 January 2014
©Reuters/Andrea Comas For sharks, old age may be 70 or more: study Great white sharks may live until their 70s, more than three times as long as previously thought, according to a new analysis of the marine predator's backbones out Wednesday.
14 January 2014
Лого TengriSport мобильная Лого TengriLife мобильная Иконка меню мобильная
Иконка закрытия мобильного меню

Exchange Rates

 494.98   521.17   4.92 

 

Weather

 

Редакция Advertising
Социальные сети