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Study: Daily Sunscreen for 24% Fewer Wrinkles
People's skin aged less with the use of sunscreen every day, rain or shine.
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Study: Sleep-Deprived Men More Likely to Assume That Women Want Them
College men are somewhat more reasonable when they've slept.
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Study: Looking at Own Facebook Profile Bad for Brain
After spending five minutes looking at their own profiles, students did significantly worse on a simple math test.
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The New Idealism of International Aid
Developing countries are often passive recipients of international health aid. Now they'll be getting the freedom to decide what to do with it.
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R.J. Sangosti/<i>The Denver Post</i>/Getty The Unexpected Ways a Fetus Is Shaped by a Mother's Environment
New research on first impressions
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Study: Kids Are Prejudiced Against Fat People by Age 4
British elementary school students believed an overweight storybook character was more likely to be naughty and less likely to have friends.
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Study: Men's Biceps Predict Their Political Ideologies
Positions on economic redistribution correlated with upper-body strength.
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Study: Happiness Comes Easier With Upbeat Music
Resarch subjects were better able to will themselves into positive moods while listening to rousing symphonies.
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Study: Why Pot Smokers Are Skinnier
Marijuana users had smaller waists and scored higher across several measures of blood sugar regulation.
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Study: People Test Positive for Smoke Exposure After Staying in Non-Smoking Hotel Rooms
Non-smokers who stayed in non-smoking rooms had cigarette byproducts on their fingers and in their urine the next morning.
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Study: Parents Who 'Clean' Pacifiers With Their Mouths May Be Protecting Kids From Asthma, Allergies
At 18 months, babies who had come into repeated contact with their parents' saliva were 12 percent less likely to have asthma and 37 percent less likely to develop eczema.
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Study: Doctors' Word Choice Affects End-of-Life Decisions
People were 20 percent more likely to choose DNR if it was phrased as "allowing natural death;" 25 percent if they were told it's what most other people choose.
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Study: Math Skills at Age 7 Predict How Much Money You'll Make
Kids who were better at reading and math at age seven ended up in a higher socioeconomic class age 42, regardless of what other advantages they had.
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Tone Deafness: A Broken Brain?
Researchers have spent the last decade trying to understand why some people are unable to appreciate music.
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Study: Tanning Lowers Blood Pressure ... So
People who spent 20 minutes under UVA-radiating lamps appeared to experience cardiovascular benefits.
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Study: Antibiotics May Prevent Men From Overtrusting Attractive Women
Japanese researchers believe they've found an antidote for men's susceptibility to femme fatales.
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Study: How Yoga Alters Genes
Alternative therapies meant to help us "break the train of everyday thinking" have effects on a cellular level.
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Study: Most People Diagnosed With Depression Do Not Actually Meet Criteria
Over 60 percent of adults who were diagnosed with depression by a clinician didn't meet the official criteria for the disorder upon re-evaluation.
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How a German Elementary School Taught Sex Ed [Graphic]
Children's book images, NSFW? NSFGFG (German First-Graders)?
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Study: Foreign-Born Kids in the U.S. Develop Fewer Allergies
Kids living in the U.S. who were born elsewhere are 59 percent less likely to have allergic diseases, but their risk increases with time spent in the country.
