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Harvard Medical School Professor Edward E. Harlow was awarded $100,000 last Wednesday by the Melanoma Research Foundation to fund his work developing therapeutic approaches to treat melanoma, a skin cancer that kills thousands of Americans each year. The award—the Established Investigator Grant—will support...

Author: By Beverly E. Pozuelos, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: HMS Prof. Wins Research Award | 2/27/2009 | See Source »

Not everyone should stick around for the Subway ads. First, the study is a bit biased toward college-age respondents. To correct that, in one experiment the researchers expanded the age range, including subjects from 18 to 67 years old. Those over the sample's median age of 35, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Do TV Commercials Make You Happier? | 2/26/2009 | See Source »

In her small but rigorous study, Andrade separated 40 participants into two groups of 20. All 40 had just finished an unrelated psychological experiment, and many were thinking of going home (or to the pub). They were asked, instead, whether they wouldn't mind spending an additional five minutes helping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Study: Doodling Helps You Pay Attention | 2/26/2009 | See Source »

That's why the President asked us to establish a court. And what happened was kind of a grand experiment. We're different from what happened in Rwanda or Yugoslavia. We are in-country. We are a partnership between the country and the U.N. Except for Taylor, all the trials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Guilty: Justice in Sierra Leone at Last | 2/26/2009 | See Source »

Has the experiment worked? I guess [the] proof of the pudding is that the country held an election in August and September 2007 where not only was the opposition not expected to get in, they were allowed to get in. That's pretty positive. What the court has done is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Guilty: Justice in Sierra Leone at Last | 2/26/2009 | See Source »

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