While much attention has been paid to how inherited traits such as skin tone or height influence economic success, a groundbreaking new study from the Journal...
David Hume wrote that reason is a ``slave to the emotions." But new research suggests that in our moral decision-making, reason and emotion duke it out within...
Lives of Crime, by David Rose: Tony Blair's "tough on the causes of crime" and David Cameron's "hug a hoodie" speeches reflect the dominant sociological model...
August 4, 2006 · Congress may not have the scientific expertise it needs to evaluate current issues such as energy policy, climate change, public health and...
MOTHER'S milk is undeniably the most nutritious food for babies, but can they have too much of a good thing? While exclusive breastfeeding during the first six...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Different genes may be responsible for causing autism in boys than in girls, researchers said on Wednesday in a study that may help...
A palaeontologist finds the first fossilised bone marrow in frogs that lived 10 million years ago, showing the decay-prone tissue can survive for a long time ...
Movie spies on malaria parasite's sneaky behavior Malaria has been outsmarting the human immune system for centuries. Now, using real-time imaging to track...
August 3, 2006 · New court documents in a lawsuit against the Food and Drug Administration allege that decisions about whether to allow over-the-counter...
Stacked like well-trod carpets, layers of mud from an ancient wetland have preserved the world's largest collection of ancient human fossil footprints. ...
The diversity of microbes living in the world's oceans may be more than 100 times greater than previously estimated, according to a survey of marine life. ...
Christopher S. Ruebeck, Joseph E. Harrington, Jr., Robert Moffitt NBER Working Paper No. 12387 Issued in July 2006 NBER Program(s): ED LS ... We examine...
Andrea Ichino, Enrico Moretti NBER Working Paper No. 12369 Issued in July 2006 NBER Program(s): LS ... In most Western countries illness-related absenteeism...
IN the border war between science and faith, the doctrine of "intelligent design" is a sly subterfuge — a marzipan confection of an idea presented in the...
President Bush came to Washington promising to be a uniter, but public opinion polls show that apart from a burst of camaraderie after Sept. 11, 2001, America...
