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Conduct disorder is the juvenile version of antisocial disorder, and body image disorder is an unhealthy obsession with the size and appearance of one’s body...

Author: By Beverly E. Pozuelos, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Disorders Linked to Steroid Use | 4/24/2009 | See Source »

Scientists at Harvard’s Center for Astrophysics are celebrating the discovery of the smallest known exoplanet—a planet orbiting a star other than the Sun—announced Tuesday by European astronomers. The new planet, Gliese 581 e, is 1.9 times the size of Earth and 80 times smaller than the first exoplanet, which was discovered in 1995. The solar system where the planet was found is 20.5 light years away and can be found in the constellation Libra. Members of the CFA, which has played a major role in the search for exoplanets, heralded...

Author: By Kristi J. bradford, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Scientists Cheer New Planet | 4/24/2009 | See Source »

Within this brine, the research team discovered roughly a dozen species of prokaryotic microbes about the size of bacteria buried deep beneath the glacier...

Author: By Jessie J. Jiang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Microbes Found Living in Glacier | 4/24/2009 | See Source »

...idea of including graduate students and postdocs in a teaching capacity—especially since it is a common concern that there might not be enough professors to accommodate student demand. Other proposals to alleviate the personnel shortage included making great books seminars application-only to control the size of the program...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi and Alex M. Mcleese, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Great Books Plan Delayed | 4/23/2009 | See Source »

...policy and the probably futile attempt to prosecute those who authorized the practices. And then to a handshake and a smile that the President bestowed on the Venezuelan demagogue Hugo Chávez. These are the soap bubbles of our public life. They have become the hasty, capricious, bite-size way that we experience the world. It has made for slovenly, sandy citizenship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joe Klein on the President's Impressive Performance Thus Far | 4/23/2009 | See Source »

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