Men are more emotional than women

Tying the knot makes men feel happy to the worth of 18,000 pounds while women experience the joy worth only half the amount.

Paul Frijters, Queensland University of Technology, estimated the value of happiness in terms of cash for the major events in life like marriage, divorce and illness. Each of the event shows different results for men and women.

While divorce leave men feeling a loss of 61,500 pounds, for women it was a just a loss of 5,000 pounds. The birth of a child created a low cash amount, about 18,000 pounds for a man and less than 5,000 pounds for a woman. According to the findings, the death of a partner or a child creates the feeling of a loss of 73,000 pounds to a woman and more than 350,000 pounds to a man.

Losing a loved one has a much bigger effect than gaining a loved one. There's an asymmetry between life and death. This shouldn't surprise us. Human beings seem to notice losses more than gains.

Drunk driving a mental problem

Drunken driving is not just an indication of a deeply seated alcohol problem but is also very often connected to psychological disease and chronic criminal background.


The well-received study shows that "more than a half of the suspected alcohol abusers had earlier committed criminal offences. A large number among the abusers were also found to be suffering serious psychotic problems

X-ray, 10 billion times brighter than Sun, to shed light on mummies

Researchers have devised an X-ray that is ten billion times brighter than the Sun to see inside mummies and other ancient artefacts. The new equipment, known as a beamline, will allow scientists and archaeologists to see through large solid objects to analyse their composition and how they were made.

DNA traces can put face to criminal

The smallest amount of DNA found at the crime scene is going to reveal the face of the criminal. It means the person’s actual face will emerge after analysing a collection of genes according to a scientist from Pennsylvania State University.