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How Computation Can Predict Group Conflict: Fighting Among Captive Pigtailed Macaques Provides Clues
August 13, 2012 — When conflict breaks out in social groups, individuals make strategic decisions about how to behave based on their understanding of alliances and feuds in the group. But it's been challenging to ... > full story -
Bullies Squelched When Bystanders Intervene
August 13, 2012 — With new national anti-bullying ads urging parents to teach their kids to speak up if they witness bullying, one researcher has found that in humans' evolutionary past at least, helping the victim of ... > full story -
Enzymes Implicated in Disease Processes Attack One Another Instead of Harming Body Proteins
August 13, 2012 — Researchers for the first time have shown that members of a family of enzymes known as cathepsins – which are implicated in many disease processes – may attack one another instead of the ... > full story -
Molecular Economics: New Computer Models Calculate Systems-Wide Costs of Gene Expression
August 8, 2012 — Bioengineers have developed a method of modeling, simultaneously, an organism's metabolism and its underlying gene expression. In the emerging field of systems biology, scientists model cellular ... > full story -
Greater Working Memory Capacity Benefits Analytic, but Not Creative, Problem-Solving
August 7, 2012 — Psychological scientists have long known that the amount of information we can actively hold in mind at any given time – known as working memory – is limited. Our working memory capacity ... > full story -
Extreme Plasma Theories Put to the Test
August 6, 2012 — The first controlled studies of extremely hot, dense matter have overthrown the widely accepted 50-year-old model used to explain how ions influence each other's behavior in a dense plasma. The ... > full story -
Preschool Children Who Can Pay Attention More Likely to Finish College: Early Reading and Math Not Predictive of College Completion
August 6, 2012 — Young children who are able to pay attention and persist on a task have a 50 percent greater chance of completing college, according to a new study. Surprisingly, achievement in reading and math did ... > full story -
New Model for Animated Faces and Bodies
August 6, 2012 — Computer graphic artists who produce computer-animated movies and games spend much time creating subtle movements such as expressions on faces, gesticulations on bodies and the draping of clothes. A ... > full story -
Microswimmers: Micron-Scale Swimming Robots Could Deliver Drugs and Carry Cargo Using Simple Motion
August 6, 2012 — Researchers have used complex computational models to design micro-swimmers that could overcome the challenges of swimming at the micron scale. These autonomous micro-robots could carry cargo and ... > full story -
Students With Strong Hearts and Lungs May Make Better Grades
August 3, 2012 — Having a healthy heart and lungs may be one of the most important factors for middle school students to make good grades in math and reading, according to new ... > full story
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