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Left wing or right wing It’s written in the brain - 28.12.10
Ancient Bible fragments reveal a forgotten history - 28.12.10
Paternal Diet Can Affect Genes And Health Of Offspring, Research Suggests - 23.12.10
Brain gene makes a female develop as a male - 23.12.10
U of M researchers' discovery suggests a new way to prevent HIV from infecting human cells - 22.12.10
Scientists reveal how biological activity is regulated in fruit fly and roundworm genomes - 22.12.10
Primary school children authors on science paper - 22.12.10
Alzheimer’s changes detectable in healthy elderly - 22.12.10
Countering memory loss in the immune system - 21.12.10
World’s smallest periodic table? - 21.12.10
Autistic children’s exceptional visual search skills may not translate into everyday life - 21.12.10
Children with autism lack visual skills required for independence - 20.12.10
Analysis of phone calls shows how political boundaries could be ideally drawn - 20.12.10
Carbon nanotubes could be ideal optical antennae - 20.12.10
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome not caused by XMRV - 20.12.10
Cassini Marks Holidays With Dramatic Views of Rhea - 20.12.10
Sheffield report reveals recommendation to mental health services for veterans - 20.12.10
Food in early life affects fertility - 20.12.10
Lost civilization under Persian Gulf? - 20.12.10
How the eye builds circuits to detect motion - 20.12.10
Despite damage, membrane protein structure can be seen using new X-ray technology, study reveals - 20.12.10
The universe’s most massive stars can form in near isolation, new study finds - 19.12.10
You only live once: our flawed understanding of risk helps drive financial market instability - 17.12.10
Raindrops reveal how a wave of mountains moved south across the country - 17.12.10
Spinning information for better memory - 17.12.10
Herschel looks back in time to see today's stars bursting into life - 17.12.10
Mexico Quake Studies Uncover Surprises for California - 16.12.10
FReD helps explain how a bee sees - 16.12.10
The code for survival - 16.12.10
Emotional intelligence peaks as we enter our 60s, research suggests - 16.12.10
Sticking to dietary recommendations could save 33,000 lives a year - 16.12.10
Cancer patients five times more likely to develop listeria - 15.12.10
Eating at screen can lead to later snack attacks? - 15.12.10
Garlic could protect against hip osteoarthritis - 15.12.10
Zebrafish ’window on cancer’ shows birth of tumour - and body’s response - 15.12.10
A good night's sleep the key to being attractive - 15.12.10
Zebrafish provide new hope for cancer treatment - 14.12.10
Hot Plasma Explosions Inflate Saturn’s Magnetic Field - 14.12.10
Catch a falling star and find out where it came from - 14.12.10
Life and death (and sex and sewage) in a Roman town - 14.12.10
Scientists identify how virus triggers cervical and mouth cancer - 14.12.10
University scientists expose health risks of not responding to stress - 14.12.10
Sipping green tea regularly can alter how we perceive flavor - 14.12.10
No Phenylketonuria in the Moss Physcomitrella patens - 14.12.10
Qatar-Led International Team Finds Their First Alien World - 14.12.10
Metabolism Models may Explain Why Alzheimer’s Disease Kills Some Neuron Types First - 14.12.10
Unique case study on Alzheimer's disease - 14.12.10
Fighter pilots’ brains are more sensitive? - 13.12.10
Leukaemia stem cell discovery - 13.12.10
Screening can pick up early signs of womb cancer - 13.12.10
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Sport Sciences - 5.04
Psychological testing may predict success in football
Measuring what are known as 'executive functions', which reflect the cognitive ability to deal with sudden problems, may make it possible to predict how good an elite football player will become in the future.

Sport Sciences - Business/Economics - 15.03
March Madness: Can Losing Lead to Winning?
March Madness: Can Losing Lead to Winning?
Is your March Madness bracket filled out yet? Imagine you're watching a close game. As the teams head to the locker room at half time, only two points separate the two competitors. Which team do you think is more likely to win? The team down by one or the team up by one? If you're like most people, you said up by one.

Business/Economics - Sport Sciences - 3.02
Media portrayal of race in sports reveals biases in corporate world
Media portrayal of race in sports reveals biases in corporate world
University Park, Pa. - The U.S. may have its first black president and the Fortune 500 its first black female chief executive, but African American CEOs account for a mere one percent of the chiefs of those 500 largest companies.

Sport Sciences - Life Sciences - 1.02
Swimming goes high tech
Swimming goes high tech
Scientists have developed inertial systems, worn in a full-body swimming suit, which can analyse the strengths and weaknesses of elite-level swimmers during workout sessions. It's a revolutionary new tool for coaches.

Physics/Astronomy - Sport Sciences - 6.07.2011
The universe may have been born spinning, according to new findings on the symmetry of the cosmos
ANN ARBOR, Mich.—Physicists and astronomers have long believed that the universe has mirror symmetry, like a basketball. But recent findings from the University of Michigan suggest that the shape of the Big Bang might be more complicated than previously thought, and that the early universe spun on an axis.

Sport Sciences - Medicine/Pharmacology - 11.02.2011
Volunteers needed for weight loss study
Researchers at the University of Birmingham's School of Sport and Exercise Sciences are looking for volunteers to take part in a study investigating whether successful weight loss can alter perception.

Sport Sciences - Medicine/Pharmacology - 6.09.2010
Drinks lift for sports teams
Consuming energy drinks during team sports could help young people perform better, a study suggests. Sports scientists found that 12-14 year olds can play for longer in team games when they drink an isotonic sports drink before and during games.

Sport Sciences - Life Sciences - 15.06.2010
Sussex Nobel winner’s football molecule research listed in top 10 discoveries
Nobel Prize-winning research carried out by Professor Sir Harry Kroto at the University of Sussex has been named by fellow academics as one of the ten most important discoveries made by their peers at UK universities in the past 60 years.

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Sport Sciences - 12.09.2011
The world’s fastest robot to line up alongside techno-wonders in university science showcase
The fastest robot in the world will be among the many technological wonders taking centre stage at a special exhibition of university research on the Hoe next week. The fastest robot in the world will be among the many technological wonders taking centre stage at a special exhibition of university research on the Hoe next week.

Medicine/Pharmacology - Sport Sciences - 1.08.2011
Less than ten minutes of intense exercise a week is enough to reduce risk of cardiovascular disease and diabetes, according to new research
Less than ten minutes of intense exercise a week is enough to reduce risk of cardiovascular disease and diabetes, according to new research Three minutes of intense exercise, three times a week, is equivalent to five one-hour sessions according to research at the University of Birmingham's School of Sport and Exercise Sciences, offering hope for people too busy to find the time to work out.

Business/Economics - Sport Sciences - 8.06.2011
NFL fans motivated by familiarity, uncertainty, study finds
NFL fans motivated by familiarity, uncertainty, study finds
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - With the bitter contract dispute between the National Football League Players Association and team owners apparently inching toward the goal line, armchair quarterbacks - and television broadcast executives - across the U.S. can breathe a collective sigh of relief that their favorite teams probably will kick off the 2011 season as expected and won't leave them with gaping holes in their schedules come fall.

Social Sciences - Sport Sciences - 29.03.2011
Crime and Football: Domestic Violence Rises 10 Percent After NFL Upsets
Researchers suggest unexpected disappointment may underlie loss of control and violent behavior March 24, 2011 By Robert Wicks Calls to the police reporting men's assaults on their wives or intimate partners rose 10 percent in areas where the local National Football League team lost a game they were favored to win, according to an analysis of 900 regular-season NFL games reports researchers in a paper in the Quarterly Journal of Economics .

Sport Sciences - 28.10.2010
Volunteers needed to take part in falls study
Researchers at the University of Birmingham's School of Sport and Exercise Sciences are looking for volunteers to take part in a study examining the effects of age, physical frailty and cognitive decline, on where we look when walking.

Sport Sciences - 9.07.2010
Footballers must face heights of final
University researchers suggest that, with the final taking place at 1,753 metres above sea level, players will have to adapt to oxygen levels in the atmosphere almost 20 per cent less than at sea level.

Sport Sciences - History/Philosophy - 17.06.2010
Which nation talks about football the most in cyberspace?
Which nation talks about football the most in cyberspace?
The 2010 FIFA World Cup has thrown up challenges for researchers at Oxford and Kentucky Universities. Using Google Maps they have settled scores on whether the term ‘football' or ‘soccer' is preferred across the world and kicked off a debate about which nation likes to talk about football the most.

Sport Sciences - Administration/Government - 6.06.2010
Survey identifies football fans´ view of cheating
Survey identifies football fans´ view of cheating
Faking injury and diving in the penalty area have been identified as the forms of cheating on the football pitch that are most disliked by fans, according to a new study by academics at the University of Sheffield.