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The second Wisconsin Poverty Report shows the rate of poverty in Wisconsin worsened in 2008, with more than 11 percent of the state’s population living in need, including one in seven children and one in 10 elderly residents.

Men who make less money than their female partners are more likely to be unfaithful, according to a new study.

PASADENA, Calif. - A relatively new type of El Niño, which has its warmest waters in the central-equatorial Pacific Ocean, rather than in the eastern-equatorial Pacific, is becoming more common and progressively stronger, according to a new study by NASA and NOAA.

Phosphorus, a mineral element found in rocks and bone, is a critical ingredient in fertilizers, pesticides, detergents and other industrial and household chemicals.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - Contact: - Steve Bradt - 617.496.8070 Economic Theory Suggests Symbiosis Is Driven by Simple Self-Interest, Not Rewards or Punishment - Analysis discounts idea that hosts evolve to punish misbehaving symbionts - Cambridge, Mass.

State-of-the-art optical fibre technology and a 27 year old mathematical theory have been used to demonstrate how extreme events occur - from financial disasters to rogue waves and stampedes - according to researchers from The Australian National University.

University Park, Pa. – The real estate department at the Penn State Smeal College of Business is ranked seventh in the world in research productivity and a Smeal faculty member ranks sixth, according to an academic study forthcoming in The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics.