TopicsPublic schools in the United States are making "little progress" in expanding instruction in how to prevent pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases such as HIV, a new federal study concluded.
Mourners applaud as the coffin of Dimitris Christoulas, who shot himself at central Syntagma square last Wednesday, is carried during a funeral procession in Athens April 7, 2012.
The International Communication Association's flagship journal, Journal of Communication, released a special issue on social media and democracy. As revolutions erupted in real time in Tunisia and Egypt in late 2010 and early 2011, it was obvious that social media were important and not well understood. This special issue has a selection of articles that tell a fascinating but complicated story of media and political change in the Middle East and other countries...
College professors and students are in an arms race over cheating. Students find new sources for pre-written term papers; professors find new ways to check the texts they get for plagiarized material. But why are all these young people cheating? A new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, suggests one reason: income inequality, which decreases the general trust people have toward each other.
When employees stay with their organization, feeling they have no other options, they are likely to leave the organization.
Women spend an average of 81 minutes per day on Facebook, whereas men spend 64 minutes. Low educated groups and low income groups who spend more time on Facebook also report feeling less happy and less content with their lives.
People who are excluded by others online, such as on Facebook, may feel just as bad as if they had been excluded in person, according to researchers at Penn State and Misericordia University.
Researchers at Carlos III University of Madrid and the University of Zaragoza theoretically predict, in a scientific study, that contact networks have no influence on cooperation among individuals.
"For groups to be successful, they must exploit the knowledge of their individual members effectively," a new study, published in February's edition of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology suggested.
To curb employees' on-the-job substance use and intoxication, bosses need to do more than just be around their employees all day, according to a new study from the University at Buffalo Research Institute on Addictions (RIA).
A new study shows that the frontal lobe of the brain is bigger in people who have a larger number of friendships.
Intelligence wins out over socio-economic status when it comes to career advancement according to a new study.
A black veteran U.S. police officer said "racism is alive and well" in the United States and is evident in the case of Trayvon Martin, the unarmed African American teenager gunned down by a neighborhood watch volunteer in central Florida last month.
Online romance scams, a new form of fraud, is under-reported and increasing, and has victimized 230,000 people in Great Britain, ...
Male high school athletes' ability to recognize and intervene to stop dating violence is improved ...
Navy Trained Dolphins Discover Rare Torpedo 
Mediterranean Diet Trumps Low-Fat Diet in Fighting Off Dementia 
Bras Make Breasts "Saggier", 15-year French Study Reveals 
Disney Pulls "Jessie" Episode That Makes Fun of Celiac Disease 
Cool Russian Soldier Has AK-47 Bullet Pulled From His Head With Pliers [Video] 
Russian Gymnast Has the World's Strongest Vagina 
Study: Almost Half of US Children Not Receiving Vaccines, Leads to Rise in Diseases 
With Current Boom in Ticks, Girl Points to Lyme Disease, Shuns Medical Experts for Diagnosis 
Experimental Stem Cell Treatment Restores Blind Man's Sight So Well, He Can Drive 
Knee Arthritis Pain Could be Effectively Treated with Sugar Injections 
