By Josh Centers on October 21st, 2009
Duke University and the University of Michigan performed a joint study showing that the testosterone levels of male John McCain and Bob Barr supporters plummeted after the results of the 2008 election.
Females and Obama supporters did not show a change in hormone levels.
"This is a pretty powerful result," said Duke neuroscientist Kevin LaBar. "Voters are physiologically affected by having their candidate win or lose an election."
The tests were performed on 183 college-aged men and women on election night. They each chewed a piece of
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By Josh Centers on October 7th, 2009
Elizabeth Blackburn, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine yesterday, was fired by the Bush administration in 2004 for criticizing White House policies.
Blackburn accepted the award, along with two of her colleagues, for discovering that chromosomes are protected during cell division by their ends, called telomeres, and the enzyme they’re composed of, called telomerase.
Their discovery is yet another clue to the cause of aging.
“Many scientists speculated that telomere shortening could be the reason for
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