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UCLA Psychologists Discover a Gene’s Link to Optimism, Self-Esteem

By Guest PostSeptember 15, 2011Health, Scienceadenine variant, baldwin way, depressive symptoms, empathy, gene link to optimism, good social skills, guanine variant, hormone, oxtr, oxytocin, oxytocin receptor gene, psychological disorders, shelley e taylor, shimon saphire bernstein, stress and depression

UCLA life scientists have identified for the first time a particular gene’s link to optimism, self-esteem and “mastery,” the belief that one has control over one’s own life — three critical psychological resources for coping well with stress and depression.

“I have been looking for this gene for a few years, and it is not the gene I expected,” said Shelley E. Taylor, a distinguished professor of psychology at UCLA and senior author of the new research. “I knew there had to be a gene for these psychological resources.” (more…)

New Video/Images of Walrus Haulout

By Guest PostSeptember 14, 2011Environment, Naturealaska, arctic basin, chukchi sea barrier beach, female walruses, human disturbance, icy cape, inupiaq community, native village of point lay, pacific walruses, point lay, radio tracking walruses, radio transmitters, sea ice, usgs alaska science center, walrus haulouts, walruses

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – The USGS Alaska Science Center has released new high-resolution video of Pacific walruses hauling out near Point Lay, Alaska, in late August, 2011.

Also available on the USGS Alaska Science Center walrus website are animations of the walruses’ movements as tracked by radio transmitters, and FAQs on the ongoing walrus studies. (more…)

A Tale of (More Than) Two Butterflies

By Guest PostSeptember 14, 2011Natureappalachian tiger, hybridization, poisonous butterfly, species formation, swallowtail butterfly, two butterflies

Appalachian tiger swallowtail butterfly is hybrid of other swallowtails

Flitting among the cool slopes of the Appalachian Mountains is a tiger swallowtail butterfly that evolved when two other species of swallowtails hybridized long ago. (more…)

Exeter Academic Explains Chemical ‘Risk List’

By Guest PostSeptember 14, 2011Environmentchemical risk list, critical metals, low carbon economy, rare earth elements, risk list, suppliers of metals

A University of Exeter academic has spoken about the many chemical elements we rely on that are at risk.

Professor Frances Wall, Head of the University’s Camborne School of Mines, joined a panel of experts at the British Science Festival to reveal the new chemical ‘risk list’. (more…)

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 The Final Trailer is Now Available Online, Only on Yahoo! Movies

By Guest PostSeptember 14, 2011Entertainment, Technologybill condon, dreamgirls, eclipse, gods and monsters, jacob black, kristen stewart, melissa rosenberg, robert pattinson, stephenie meyer, summit entertainment, tale of vampire love, taylor lautner, the twilight saga, yahoo movies

*Yahoo! Movies Premieres One of the Most Highly Anticipated Releases of the Year*

SUNNYVALE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)— Yahoo! Movies (https://movies.yahoo.com) in conjunction with Summit Entertainment, exclusively presents online the trailer for THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN – PART 1: https://yhoo.it/newbdtrailer

The highly anticipated fourth installment of The Twilight Saga, directed by Academy Award® winner Bill Condon, THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN — PART 1 reveals the mysteries of this romantic epic that has entranced millions. (more…)

Android Captures #2 Ranking Among Smartphone Platforms in EU5

By Guest PostSeptember 13, 2011Technologyandroid device, apple ios, Comscore, eu5, european markets, france, Germany, Google, google android platform, growth trends of smartphone, htc, italy, jeremy copp, Microsoft, mobile, mobile media landscape, rim, spain, symbian, united kingdom

*HTC and Samsung Emerge as Top Android Device Manufacturers*

LONDON, UK, 13 September 2011 – comScore, Inc., a leader in measuring the digital world, today released data from the comScore MobiLens service analysing growth trends of the smartphone platforms across the five leading European markets (France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom). In July 2011, nearly 1 in 4 smartphone users in EU5 reported using smartphones running on the Google Android platform. HTC had the highest market share among mobile original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), accounting for 34.6 percent of Android devices used across the region in this period, followed closely by Samsung with 31.7 percent of Android devices. (more…)

MSU Licenses Technology to Detect Altered Fingerprints

By Guest PostSeptember 13, 2011Scienceadvancement of biometrics, altered fingerprints, detection, fingerprint

EAST LANSING, Mich. — Michigan State University has licensed cutting-edge software that detects altered fingerprints to Morpho, part of the Safran group, one of the world’s leading suppliers of identification and detection solutions. (more…)

Names, Not Social Networks, Bind Us to Global Cultural and Ethnic Communities

By Guest PostSeptember 12, 2011Culture, Sciencecultural baggage, electoral registers, ethnic and linguistic communities, ethnic segregation, geographical factors, global networks, linguistic population, migrant integration, name dictionary, pablo mateos, research in population genetics, social science, social stratification, surnames and forenames, telephone directories, ucl, university of auckland

Links between hundreds of millions of names belonging to people all around the world have been analysed by geographers from UCL and the University of Auckland. The results reveal how our forenames and surnames are connected in distinct global networks of cultural, ethnic and linguistic communities.

The researchers’ methods could be of use to social scientists and health researchers investigating migration, identity and integration. (more…)

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