Forget spray-on tans, new research in Evolution and Human Behaviour says eating carrots and tomatoes gives you a more healthy tan than even the sun.Dr Ian Stephen, from the School of Psychology,…

Stereotypes exist for a reason.  They give us a comfortable idea of what we are dealing with, based on experience or at least perception.   Gender stereotypes suggest that men are…

BRUSSELS and HERAKLION, Greece, January 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The EU's 'cyber security' Agency ENISA, (the European Network and Information Security Agency) has today issued a report on Data…

When physicists working in a collaboration want to publish the observation of a new effect in the data, they need to first convince their peer that what they are observing is real, and not the…

When I was a younger guy, I read my astrology sign 'predictions' in the newspaper.  It was in the comics section, so clearly no one took it too seriously.  But astrology had at least a…

LONDON, January 13, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Lady Barbara Judge, a previous chairman of the UK Atomic Energy Authority, said Kazakhstan is poised to be a leader in the field of nuclear energy, with…

GUILFORD, Maine, January 13, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Puritan Medical Products Company, the leading manufacturer of specialty tip medical/diagnostic swabs and applicators in North America, has announced…

MEMPHIS, Tennessee, January 13, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- With the release of the critically acclaimed new film, The King's Speech, starring Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush, it is most timely to highlight…

Little green men. Can they exist? Do they exist? And what do they look like? Published this week in Philosophical Transactions A is an extravaganza of papers about extraterrestrial life, and what we…

The American Diabetes Association estimates that nearly 24 million children and adults in the U.S. have diabetes. Type 2 diabetes is the most common form of the disease and accounts for about 90 to…