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  • Google Maps Goes Offline

    After an update, now Android users can use Google Maps without being connected to the internet. Users can download areas of the world to their smart phones and explore them offline.
    It could be a city, a county or an entire country.  The geograph...
  • Processed Meat Can Cause Cancer

    Researchers have evaluated the carcinogenicity of the consumption of red meat and processed meat. They classified the consumption of red meat as probably carcinogenic to humans, based on limited evidence that the consumption of red meat causes cancer in...  more
  • Do women place less importance on their careers than men? Professor rebuts common misconception

    A new study analyzed data collected from employees in 11 countries to determine if gender differences in career centrality — the importance of one’s career to their identity — exist, and examined how those differences relate to professional...  more
  • New study explains why you bulk up with resistance training, not endurance training

    Resistance and endurance exercises activate the same gene, PGC-1 α, but the processes stimulated for the muscles to adapt depend on the exercise type. A new study offers insight into why the physical changes from resistance exercise are so different...  more
  • Grand Challenges of the Future

    By Milton Bertrand
    Developing, innovating great technologies, discovering cures for cancer and others such as developing clean sources of energy a world-class of STEM workforce is imperative. It is necessary to reiterate the great importance of these ...
  • The cells’ toolbox for DNA repair

    The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2015 to Tomas Lindahl: Francis Crick Institute and Clare Hall Laboratory, Hertfordshire, UK; Paul Modrich:Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Duke University...  more
  • Does knowing high-status people help or hurt?

    How happy you are may have something to do with who you know -- and where you come from. A sociology professor, set out to discover whether knowing high-status people helped or harmed mental health, using depressive symptoms as a proxy.

    Using nation...
  • You have heard it; is beauty really in the eye of the beholder?

    While many aspects of attractiveness are universal researchers provide new answer as to why beauy is in the eye of the beholder.