Future climate change could change the profile of tropical forests, with possible consequences for carbon storage and biodiversity, a study says.
Two closely-related strains of Clostridium difficile became antibiotic resistant and were able to rapidly spread to hospitals around the world, a study says.
Executives licensed to fly small aircraft led 176 of 2, 073 major public companies at some point between 1992 and 2009, a recent study says.
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He found a study that says if you ask people what their ideal day at the office looks like, two-thirds of the people will say it includes a meeting or two.
Meanwhile, a new study says American Catholics view sex abuse by clergy as the most important problem facing the church today, according to the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life.
Though features like number of apps, weight, battery life and Flash compatibility tend to attract the most attention in tablet assessments, a new study says typing is actually the most common frustration among tablet users.
The blockbuster cholesterol drug Vytorin failed to improve a rare heart valve condition called aortic stenosis and seemed to increase rates of cancer, a new study says, dealing another blow to the top-selling drug and its makers, Merck and Schering-Plough .
Gov. Andrew Cuomo is determined to pull the plug on the dinosaur-aged Indian Point nuclear power plant located on the northern outskirts of New York City in Buchanan, NY and a new study says the sky will fall if he does.
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But he also has existing heart disease and a low level of so-called "good" cholesterol, a combination the study says doubles his chances of a stroke.
NPR's Christopher Joyce reports on a new study that says scientists still don't know how to do it.
Antarctic ice sheets are melting now three times faster than they did in the 1990s, a new scientific study says.
"It means you have to put 10, 000, 12, 000 or 15, 000 people in a study, " says Steven Nissen , a cardiologist at the Cleveland Clinic who frequently designs clinical trials for drug companies.
To see if chocolate really does have a positive impact on weight, Dr. Golomb says, a study specifically designed to compare chocolate eaters to non-chocolate eaters needs to be conducted.
Alan Beck , director of the Center for the Human-Animal Bond at Purdue's School of Veterinary Medicine and a principal investigator in the study, says they placed Aibo, a robotic dog made by Sony (nyse: SNE - news - people ), in the homes of isolated senior citizens to determine whether the robotic pet can improve quality of life.
Asians are more likely than Westerners to regard a person who makes eye contact as angry or unapproachable, says a 2013 study in the online scientific journal PLOS ONE.
When all the students tackled the same problems a second time, those who had done a simple, boring task during a break had more creative ideas than those who were assigned a tough cognitive puzzle, those who rested, or those who didn't take a break, says the study, co-authored by Jonathan Schooler, a psychology professor at the University of California at Santa Barbara.
But now a study from Stanford University says ethanol pollution may be worse than gasoline.
So says a study released Monday by the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners.
The study says a lot about the consequences of ambition, but as for the causes?
The deposits could heat more than 100 million homes for a decade, the study says.
In a city that one study says is 30% Muslim, there is tension over prayer space.
Honesty hurts the bottom line: A study by Towers Perrin says that the deductions cut net income by 10%, on average.
Normally when a biotech says its study failed but then trumpets safety results, investors are right to think the company is toast.
Obese patients are up to six times as likely as trim patients to report chronic heartburn, says a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Innovative BioDefense says a study is under way testing Zylast's effect on elementary-school absenteeism, and additional research is planned on illnesses on cruise ships and in nursing homes.
Pro forma numbers move stock prices more than GAAP ones, says a study of 25, 000 earnings reports from 1989 through 1997 by two accounting professors, Georgia State's Lawrence D.
Yes, it's true, says a study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (via the New York Times): sildenafil, otherwise known as Viagra, is a bona fide cure for jet lag.
The time-sensitive pattern created by that pinch-circle motion, along with the motion involved in rotating the dial, are complex enough that Memon says a study of about 100 users has shown it can identify users with about 2% false positives and 2% false negatives.
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