Small Business Employees Are Feeling Less Loyal, Survey Finds

"According a recent study by MetLife, 'The 9th Annual Study of Employee Benefits,' only 44% of small business employees feel loyal toward the company they worked for in 2010, down from 62% in 2008."

Health Bill to Approach 20 Percent of Spending By 2020

"The U.S. health bill will account for 19.8 percent of the nation's spending by 2020, up from 17.6 percent in 2009, outpacing projected average annual GDP growth, researchers said on Thursday."

Cellphones Don't Increase Cancer Risk in Kids, Study Says

"Using cellphones doesn't increase children's cancer risk, according to the latest in a series of studies that find no relationship between the phones and brain tumors."

The Condition of Education 2011

"The Condition of Education 2011 summarizes important developments and trends in education using the latest available data. The report presents 50 indicators on the status and condition of education, in addition to a closer look at postsecondary education by institutional level and control."

Unplanned Children Develop More Slowly, Study Finds

"Children that are the result of unplanned pregnancies tend to experience developmental delays, according to a new study published by the British Medical Journal Wednesday."

Smartphones: 28 Percent of Global Market This Year

"More than 420 million smartphones will be sold worldwide this year, and will account for 28 percent of all cellphone sales, IMS Research says."

Calorie Labels Change Some Diners' Habits: Study

"New York City's requirement that fast-food restaurants post calorie counts on menus led one in six customers to notice the information and buy foods with fewer calories, according to new research released on Tuesday."

Humans See Brains Shrink With Age, Research Shows

"Human brains shrink as people grow old, unlike even our closest animal relative, says a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that highlights what researchers call the unique character of human aging."

Time Travel is Impossible, Scientists Say

"By proving that even a single photon must obey Einstein's theory that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light, Hong Kong physicists believe they have debunked the idea of time travel once and for all."

Employees Lack Trust in their Company's Leaders

"A new poll of nearly 2,000 employees finds that only 10 percent of employees trust management to make the right decision in times of uncertainty. Just 14 percent of the employees polled by Maritz Research believe their company’s leaders are ethical and honest."

Interesting Survey about Men and Women and Relationships

Results of survey of 20,000 men and women on relationships

Poll: GOP Makes Across the Board Gains Heading to 2012

"The Republican Party has made big gains across geographic, gender, educational, and socioeconomic lines, according to a report released today by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press."

People in Affluent Nations May Be More Depression-Prone

"Affluent countries, including the U.S., tend to have higher rates of depression than lower-income nations such as Mexico, a new study from World Health Organization researchers suggests."

Recession Worsens Racial Wealth Gap

"The wealth gap in the United States has grown wider in the wake of the Great Recession, with black and Hispanic American households faring much worse than white households, according to a study published Tuesday."

Great Colleges to Work For Survey 2011

Great Colleges to Work For Survey 2011

Study: Wind May Have Helped Moses Part Red Sea

"In a computer model, Drews was able to simulate what might have happened at the Red Sea just before Moses started a journey that lasted for 40 years. After modeling a body of water that resembled the waters trapping Moses and the Israelites, Drews enforced the laws of physics and applied a wind stress to the water body."

Google+ Pulls In 20 Million in 3 Weeks

"On Wednesday, Web-traffic watcher comScore Inc. estimated Google+ has had 20 million unique visitors since its launch, including five million visitors from the U.S."

Study: Fewer than 50% of Smartphone Users Make Calls

"A new survey from social communications company CloudTalk has found that making calls is only the fourth most popular activity for smartphone owners. . .and one that only 43% of Americans actually engage in."

Training of Teachers Is Flawed, Study Says

"The National Council on Teacher Quality, an advocacy group, is to issue a study on Thursday reporting that most student-teaching programs are seriously flawed."

Texas Schools Study: Most Kids Have Been Suspended

"Results of study that tracked 1 million students for 6 years raise concerns about discipline system."

Now We Know Why those Sloths are So Slothful

"Sloths navigate trees just like monkeys do, a new study finds. The only difference is, sloths use their slothfulness to their advantage."

Creative Types are Often Full of Themselves, Study Confirms

"The research, published in the journal Personality and Individual Differences, stopped short of labelling creative types as jerks, but it didn't paint a pretty portrait of some aspects of their personalities, either."

Ideal Carbon Capture Solution Years Off: Study

"A dream climate change cure to turn planet-warming greenhouse gases into useful products from jet fuel to plastics will take years to develop from the lab and pilot projects, a report found on Thursday."

U.S. Police Deaths Up 14% So Far in 2011, Report Says

"Law enforcement fatality figures nationwide have climbed during the first half of 2011, according to a preliminary report from the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund."

Moody’s Reports Highlight ‘Divergent Trends’ Between Stronger and Weaker Colleges

"Moody’s Investors Service released two reports today that predict a widening gap between have and have-not colleges."

College Students Lead in Internet Use and Tech Gadgets, Study Finds

"A study by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project confirms the idea that young adults—particularly undergraduate and graduate students—are more likely to use the Internet and own tech devices than is the rest of the general population."

Leaders of 4-Year Colleges Offer Views on Enrolling Transfer Students

"A new report from the College Board highlights the challenges and opportunities facing four-year colleges as they work with community colleges to create more efficient pathways for transfer students."

Public Colleges Are More Likely to Admit Undocumented Students Than Private Colleges

"Public colleges are more likely than private colleges to admit undocumented students as a matter of policy, but they are less likely to offer such students financial aid, according to a new survey."

Community-College Students Perform Worse Online Than Face to Face

"Among students who took courses online, those with the most Web-based credits were least likely to graduate or transfer to a four-year institution, a study found."

Religion Benefits Traumatic Brain Injury

"If traumatic brain injury victims feel close to a higher power, it can help them rehabilitate, U.S. researchers found."

Economic Woes Threaten States' Revenues: Report

"A budding recovery in state governments' revenues could be cut short if the economy weakens, according to a Rockefeller Institute of Government report released on Thursday."

Placebo Effect Rivals Steroid Benefit for Asthmatics

"Thirty-nine asthma patients reported about as much perceived relief from a placebo inhaler or from sham acupuncture as from an inhaled dose of the steroid albuterol, according to results of a pilot study published Wednesday in The New England Journal of Medicine."

Study on Grades in Higher Education

"Two critics of grade inflation have published a new analysis finding that the most common grade at four-year colleges and universities is the A (43 percent of all grades) -- and that Ds and Fs are few and far between."

How the Recession Reshaped College Enrollment

"Headcounts surged at community colleges and held steady at four-year institutions, says the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center in a new report."

Science, Tech Jobs See Better Pay, Government Study Finds

"Jobs in science, technology, engineering and math fields pay an average 26% more than other occupations and grew three times faster the past decade, according to a Commerce Department study to be released today."

Pandora Reaches 100 Million Listeners

"Pandora, the Internet radio station, announced Tuesday it has reached 100 million listeners. According to a news release on Pandora's blog, 36 million of those consumers are 'monthly active users.' It also said that in the past six months, Pandora has upped its market share of radio listening from 2.3% to 3.6%."

China: 1.3 Million Websites Shut in 2010

"Some 1.3 million websites closed down in China during 2010, a report from a state-run think tank says."

Battered West Coast a Lesson on Warming, Study Finds

"Severe erosion along the West Coast during the winter of 2009-2010 offers a look at, and lessons for, a warming world with rising sea levels, a new study finds."

States Ranked Best to Worst on Science Education

"A new ranking of how well the United States' schools are preparing students for science and engineering careers shows that although there's a small number of high performers, most states are doing a poor job of educating students in these subjects."

No Link Seen Between Cell Phones, Brain Tumor

"People who have used a cell phone for more than a decade do not appear to be at increased risk of a type of non-cancerous brain tumor, a large study suggests."

Study: Pets Give Us the Same Warm Fuzzies That Friends Do

"A dog is man's best friend, the old adage tells us — and, indeed, new research shows that when it comes to fulfilling our basic psychological needs, humans do benefit from their pets in much the same way they do from their friends."

Ireland Unveils New Report on Catholic Child Abuse

"A new investigation into the Catholic Church's chronic cover-up of child abuse found Wednesday that a rural diocese and its bishop ignored Irish church rules requiring all suspected molestation cases to be reported to police — and the Vatican encouraged this concealment."

Small Businesses Pessimistic about the Future

"The survey found that only 11% of small businesses expect to add jobs in the next three months, which is down from 13% in May, compared to 16% in April and 18% in March, according to the National Federation of Independent Business."

Most Hospitals Face Drug Shortages, Survey Says

"The vast majority of US hospitals have restricted the use of life-saving chemotherapy and other critical-care drugs in the past six months to cope with unprecedented shortages, according to a survey released Tuesday."

Men Have Higher Cancer Death Rates Than Women

"Men are more likely than women to die of cancer in the US, a new study shows."

Most Americans Expect to Work During Their Retirement: Study

"Americans are expecting to retire later and work throughout it, according to a study sponsored by SunAmerica Financial Group in collaboration with Age Wave."

Healthcare Reform to Save States $100B

"State governments are likely to save $92 billion to $129 billion from 2014 to 2019 as a result of the Affordable Care Act, two U.S. non-profits say."

Global 500 Women CEOs

"Powerful women in business have enjoyed several victories over the past 12 months. Here's a look at the women CEOs whose companies have made this year's Global 500 list and how they made it to where they are today."

Google+ About To Hit 10 Million Users

"Google’s social network, Google+, might be one of the fastest-growing networks ever, having already reached 10 million users according to one estimate."

More Than a Third of US Adults Own Smartphones: Study

"A Pew Research Center study released on Monday indicated that 35 percent of US adults own smartphones as the Internet is increasingly being accessed using gadgets on the go."

In Israel, Diggers Unearth Site of Philistines

"The city of Gath, where the annual digging season began this week, is helping scholars paint a more nuanced portrait of the Philistines, who appear in the biblical story as the perennial enemies of the Israelites."

Child Personalities Linked to Stress

"Children's personalities -- cautious and submissive or bold and assertive -- are linked to their chemical response to stress, U.S. researchers say."

Half of College Students Have Blackouts

"Fifty percent of U.S. college drinkers report at least one alcohol-induced memory blackout -- in the past year after binge drinking, researchers say."

Federal Programs Supply $2 of $10 in Income

"Money through jobless benefits, food stamps, Social Security and disability accounted for nearly $2 of every $10 Americans got in 2010, an analysis said."

Study: People with Pets are Happier, Healthier

"Psychologists conducted three experiments to examine the potential benefits of pet ownership among what they called everyday people. Life is good for those everyday people."

Fish Ingesting Plastic Waste, Study Finds

"Now, researchers at the University of California, San Diego, have put a figure on how much of that plastic is swallowed by fish that dwell in the northern Pacific Ocean: somewhere between 12,000 and 24,000 tons a year."

Students Least Likely to Persist Benefit Most From Extra Financial Aid, Study Finds

"The report, 'Conditional Cash Transfers and College Persistence: Evidence From a Randomized Need-Based Grant Program,' was released on Thursday by the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin at Madison."

Fortune Global 500 Companies 2011

"Annual ranking of the world's largest corporations."

Mississippi Most Obese State, Colorado Least

"The number of obese U.S. adults rose in 16 states in the last year, helping to push obesity rates in a dozen states above 30 percent, according to a report released on Thursday. By that measure, Mississippi is the fattest state in the union with an adult obesity rate of 34.4 percent."

Medicaid Makes 'Big Difference' In Lives, Study Finds

"But a new study — the first of its kind in nearly four decades — finds that Medicaid is making a bigger impact than even some of its supporters may have realized."

112th Congress is One of the Least Productive in Years

"The 112th Congress is on pace to be one of the least productive in recent memory — as measured by votes taken, bills made into laws, nominees approved. By most of those metrics, this crowd is underperforming even the "do-nothing Congress" of 1948, as Harry Truman dubbed it."

Two Ways to Deal With Negative Emotions

"The study, published in Psychological Science, found in both experiments, when the negative emotion was low-intensity, participants preferred to reappraise -- think through it, telling themselves why it wasn't so bad. However, when high-intensity emotions arose, they preferred to distract themselves, the study said."

Facebook Says Membership Has Grown to 750 Million

". . .the company broke its silence and announced it had passed 750 million worldwide members who post billions of messages each day."

Why Exercise Makes Us Feel Good

"Why does exercise make us happy and calm? Almost everyone agrees that it generally does, a conclusion supported by research. . ."

Why 'You Can't Eat Just One' Potato Chip

"The body's natural marijuana-like chemicals may be the reason why people find it hard to eat only one potato chip or one french fry, U.S. researchers say."

Study Links Air Pollution to Brain Changes

"Engine exhaust and other air particulates can affect mood and cognitive abilities, according to a new study from researchers in Australia and the United States."

Study Looks at 'Controlled' Forgetting

"Researchers in Sweden say a new study shows we can train ourselves to forget by controlling and intentionally forgetting unwanted memories."

What's Next for Economy: Slow Growth, Weak Hiring

"Almost no one is satisfied with the current state of the U.S. economy. But economists say the outlook is pretty bleak too. Sluggish economic growth will continue into 2012, if not beyond, with only modest hiring and high unemployment, according to a CNNMoney survey of 27 economists."

Results of Survey of College Chief Financial Officers

"Fewer than one-third of college chief financial officers are more optimistic about the state of the U.S. economy today than they were a year ago, according to a new Chronicle-Moody's survey of nearly 500 college CFO's. Yet when it comes to the financial prospects of their own institutions, a tad more than that—39 percent—are more optimistic today."

Apple iPads Generate 1% of World's Web Traffic

"Apple's iPad is responsible for 1% of the world's Web traffic, as well as 2.1% of Web traffic in the U.S., according to the latest numbers from NetMarketShare."

Many U.S. Heart Stents Inappropriate: Study

"One in eight U.S. patients who have non-emergency stenting procedures to clear blocked arteries in the heart are likely to see more harm than good from the procedure, researchers said Tuesday."

The Perils of Female Sports Advertising

". . .according to a number of sports-media researchers, the campaign — like so many others in female sports — undermines its players' achievements by sexualizing them, inadvertently or otherwise."

Environment Plays Larger Role in Autism, Study Says

"Researchers in California suggest environmental factors may play a larger role in triggering autism than was previously thought. Their study was published Monday in the journal Archives of General Psychiatry."

In U.S. Men are Shopping More Than Ever, While Women are Watching More TV

"The stats still show that women do the majority of shopping in the U.S., but with men facing a higher unemployment rate than women (8.8% compared to 7.9%, according to a February 2011 U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics report), more men are at home than in the past and in many cases, they are taking a more active role in household duties."

Driven by Digital, Music Sales up in 2011

"Music sales in the U.S. are up 1.6 percent in 2011, according to The Nielsen Company, as digital album and track sales saw dramatic growth through May 8. While physical albums saw a decline in year-over-year sales from the same period in 2010, digital album and track purchases went up 16.8 percent and 9.6 percent, respectively."

Health Care Spending: A Lot for a Few

"A new report says about 5 percent of us are responsible for almost half of all health care spending in the U.S."

Twitter Hits 200 Million Tweets a Day

"In June 2010, Twitter users sent about 65 million tweets per day. One year later, 200 million tweets are sent per day. According to the Twitter blog, it would take more than 31 years to read all 200 million tweets."

Europe Has Broad Manufacturing Slowdown

"Manufacturing activity in Europe slowed in June, hitting an 18-month low in the eurozone, research firm Markit Economics said Friday."

Study: Climate Change Could Spread Disease

"British researchers studying the behavior of a viral disease of cattle and sheep from the 1960s to the present say climate change could cause disease outbreaks."

Study: Sea Urchins Don't Need Eyes to 'See'

"Sea urchins have no eyes but can "see" light with their entire bodies and react to it in their surroundings, Swedish researchers say."

Study: 'Different' Faces Hard to Remember

"U.S. researchers say the human brain works differently when memorizing the face of a person from one's own race than when memorizing a face from another race."

2,000-Year-Old Priestly Burial Box Is Real, Archaeologists Say

"Israeli scholars say they have confirmed the authenticity of a 2,000-year-old burial box bearing the name of a relative of the high priest Caiaphas of the New Testament."