Fairness Is a Hard-Wired Emotion
The belief that things should be divided fairly among members of a group isn't just a matter of culture or reason -- it's an emotion that's built into the human brain.

Kids Have A Smaller Vocabulary
If Dads Are Depressed
Fathers get the baby blues too and, if they do, it can be bad news for their children's language development. Two-year-olds have a smaller vocabulary if their fathers have depression than if their mothers do.

Quercetin Prevents Cardiovascular Disease
Quercetin appears to provide protection against cardiovascular disease even though the body breaks it down before it enters the blood, according to a new study conducted by researchers at the Institute of Food Research and published in the journal "Atheroscleroisis."

Autism Risk Linked To Power Plants
And Other Mercury-Releasing Sources
A newly published study shows a statistically significant link between pounds of industrial release of mercury and increased autism rates. It also shows—for the first time in scientific literature—a statistically significant association between autism risk and distance from the mercury source.

Why Face Symmetry Is Sexy
Across Cultures And Species
In humans, faces are an important source of social information. One property of faces that is rapidly noticed is attractiveness. Research has highlighted symmetry and sexual dimorphism (how masculine or feminine a face is) as important variables that determine a face's attractiveness. But why are these traits attractive?

Decreased Sun Exposure
Increases Depression
Older people with low blood levels of the sunshine vitamin (vitamin D) and high blood levels of parathyroid hormone are more likely to be depressed, Dutch researchers report.

Vitamin D Reduces Risk of Colon
Cancer Death by 72 Percent
People with higher levels of vitamin D in their bodies are 72 percent less likely to die from colorectal cancer, according to a new study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Colorectal cancer kills approximately 50,000 people in the United States per year.

Why Do Overweight and Obese
People Find Weight Loss So Difficult?
Scientists have discovered why fat people find it so hard to lose weight, which will lead to many new approaches to weight loss.