And this brings us to the most contentious question in the scientific study of religion: Is religiosity -- including our tendency to believe in supernatural entities as well as our ability to lose ourselves in religious rites -- an adaptation?
Every week, newspapers and magazines report the latest data coming in from scientific study.
University of Virginia professor of psychology Jonathan Haidt is a pioneer in the scientific study of moral emotion and cognition.
Phone interviews, along with written interviews, carry too much guesswork baggage to be valuable in a scientific study, and Spitzer certainly knew that.
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Climate change is expanding Antarctica's sea ice, according to a scientific study in the journal Nature Geoscience.
Even with all the brilliant scientific advancements in the study of music, we may never fully understand what music is, or why exactly it makes us feel as it does yet we can still feel its power work on us and enjoy that sensation.
The Vatican quotes Anthony Valle, a professor of theology, as saying the pope has been open to scientific inquiry in his own study of Jesus' life.
And in order to study the medicine of their era in a scientific way they began these collections.
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Two out of the three patients had suffered a stroke, according to the study published in the scientific journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
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.
In 2007, a study conducted by Jawhraa Abdul Rahaman, to explore the contentment of academics in universities in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia towards open Access publishing - 63.4% of the total participants in the study showed their desire to have their scientific publications available for free access on the Internet in future, compared with 22.4% reported that they do not support the idea.
The working group will meet next in August, and continue their collaborative scientific study.
Antarctic ice sheets are melting now three times faster than they did in the 1990s, a new scientific study says.
Right now, Glaxo publishes results from its clinical trials on its own Web site and on another site run by the National Institutes of Health, and it says it tries to publish scientific papers on every study in research journals.
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You can see this in multiple citations in the scientific literature (as opposed to one bad vaccine study), or you may know an extended family where it runs rampant.
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Many scientists will never get a single study published in Science or Nature, the most prestigious scientific journals.
It underscores that even after 150 years of scientific study we still do not know all the birds in the Indo-Malayan region.
While putting money into renewed human space flight efforts, the proposal cuts scientific research, particularly the study of the other planets in our solar system.
"I think the A to Z trial pushed the dose of a good drug beyond its safe limits, " says Steven Nissen, a cardiologist at the Cleveland Clinic who wrote a blistering commentary about A to Z in JAMA. "The study falls far short of acceptable scientific evidence, " Nissen says.
He wrote numerous books and scientific papers, and collected just about every honour in his field of study.
Spectators will be able to engage in a wide-range of scientific discussions including the use of atoms to study space, testing innovative technology to tackle illness, and assessing the risk of extinction of a species.
The United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization led a study on the impact of illiteracy in Ecuador, the Dominican Republic and the San Pablo State in Brazil.
The workshop was aimed at preparing a detailed and comprehensive record of these artifacts on scientific methods to avoid any chance of theft and pilferage in addition to facilitate study and research.
The 30-person study, conducted by Arjuna, was presented at a scientific meeting in San Diego last year.
There haven't been any scientific studies linking illness specifically to compressor stations, but a major study in Fort Worth, Texas, found that large compressor stations might exceed some pollution standards.
Mike was a pioneer in the study of groundwater as an archive of past climate change and his research provided seminal scientific advances on controls on water quality in regional aquifers, recharge over time and space.
Not so, says a National Academy of Sciences study that attributes two thirds of the retractions in the biomedical and life-sciences to scientific misconduct.
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Because 41% of scientific papers originate in Europe (compared with 31% in America), the results of this study could have a big effect on the publishing industry.
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