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Left is mean but right is meaner, says new study of political discourse

Fri, 11 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

PhysOrg.com - Feb. 11 (News) - In their study, Tufts Assistant Professor of Sociology Sarah Sobieraj and Professor of Political Science Jeffrey Berry systematically scrutinized what they call "outrage talk" in leading talk radio, cable news analysis, political blogs and newspaper colu

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Google developing Groupon competitor called Offers

Fri, 21 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

PhysOrg.com - By Dana Wollman - Jan. 21 (News) - Like Groupon Inc., the service, Google Offers, will offer time-limited deals from local vendors, such as restaurants. Ten dollars, for example, might buy $20 worth of food at a local cafe.

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Key leukemia defense mechanism discovered

Thu, 30 Sep 2010 17:25:37 -0700

PhysOrg.com - Sep. 30 - Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center researcher Steven Grant, M.D., and a team of VCU Massey researchers have uncovered the mechanism by which leukemia cells trigger a protective response when exposed to a class of cancer-killing agents

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When it comes to emotions, Eastern and Western cultures see things very differently

Sun, 06 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700

PhysOrg.com - Apr. 06 (News Report) - Across two studies, participants viewed images, each of which consisted of one centre model and four background models in each image. The researchers manipulated the facial emotion (happy, angry, sad) in the centre or background models and asked the participants to determine the dominant emotion of the centre figure. The majority of Japanese participants (72%) reported that their judgments of the centre person's emotions were influenced by the emotions of the background figures, while most North Americans (also 72%) reported they were not influenced by the background figures at all.

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Study: There Is No Shortage of U.S. Engineers

Thu, 05 Apr 2007 15:13:07 -0700

PhysOrg.com - By (no author named) - Apr. 05 (Special Report) - A new study argues that the offshoring of U.S. jobs is caused by cost savings and not a shortage of U.S. engineers or better education in China. However, the study warns that the United States is losing its global edge.

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Researchers Use Wikipedia To Make Computers Smarter

Sat, 06 Jan 2007 13:32:12 -0800

PhysOrg.com - Jan. 06 (Press Release) - Using Wikipedia, Technion researchers have developed a way to give computers knowledge of the world to help them "think smarter," making common sense and broad-based connections between topics just as the human mind does. The new method will help computers filter e-mail spam, perform Web searches and even conduct intelligence gathering.

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Team Detects 'Top Quark,' a Basic Constituent of Matter

Thu, 14 Dec 2006 06:05:00 -0800

PhysOrg.com - Dec. 14 (News Report) - A group of 50 international physicists, led by UC Riverside's Ann Heinson, has detected for the first time a subatomic particle, the top quark, produced without the simultaneous production of its antimatter partner - an extremely rare event.

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Why a hydrogen economy doesn't make sense

Mon, 11 Dec 2006 21:56:15 -0800

PhysOrg.com - By Lisa Zyga - Dec. 11 (Opinion) - In a recent study, fuel cell expert Ulf Bossel explains that a hydrogen economy is a wasteful economy. The large amount of energy required to isolate hydrogen from natural compounds, package the light gas by compression or liquefaction, transfer the energy carrier to the user, plus the energy lost when it is converted to useful electricity with fuel cells, leaves around 25% for practical use -- an unacceptable value to run an economy in a sustainable future.

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