Washington, DC, USA. Anyone who is following the 2010 midterm elections knows that tea party activists are angry, motivated and determined to create a low-spending, low-taxing Congress. It’s anybody’s guess just how successful they will be. But an equally compelling question is just what impact the movement will have on gubernatorial and other state elections this fall.

Dale Robertson, president of Tea party.org, admits that his movement is thinking more about Washington right now

Troy, NJ, USA. Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute discovered a new method for predicting the fate of stem cells with up to 99 percent accuracy. Using advanced computer vision technology to detect subtle cell movements that are impossible to discern with the human eye, Professor Badri Roysam and his former student Andrew Cohen can successfully forecast how a stem cell will split and key characteristics the daughter cells.

By allowing the isolation of cells with specific capab

Western Sydney, NSW, AUS. Our heroes have always been flawed. Heathcliff was a vengeful misanthrope with necrophiliac tendencies. Mr Knightley was an annoying elitist who belittled his heroine. Mr Darcy was essentially a bad tempered snob. And let’s not get into Mr Rochester and his poor mad wife in the attic. Yet despite their vices, at least in the past we could count on our heroes to at least be human. Today it seems that every protagonist of note has fangs and a healthy appetite for

Seattle, WA, USA. Men who engaged in domestic violence consistently overestimated how common such behavior is, and the more they overestimated it the more they engaged in abusing their partner in the previous 90 days.

According to new research, hose men overestimated by two to three times the actual rates of seven behaviors ranging from throwing something at a partner to rape.

The work is the first to document overestimation of intimate partner violence by batterers and is consistent

Phoenix, AZ, USA. Details emerging from Arizona’s new budget — approved by state lawmakers late Thursday (March 11) — are staggering. More than 310,000 adults and 47,000 low-income children will lose health insurance under the plan, which reduces spending by about $1.1 billion, eliminates full-day kindergarten and, according to The Arizona Republic, slashes funds “that were one of the last best hopes for the state parks system to stay afloat.”

Arizona was listed just behind Cal