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  • By Vlad Tarko
  • July 5th, 2006
Mindless Reading Seems More Important than Previously Thought

Mindless Reading Seems More Important than Previously Thought

Researchers have demonstrated for the first time the ill effects of mindless reading

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  • By Sci/Tech News Staff
  • July 5th, 2006
New Study Shows People Sleep Even Less Than They Think

New Study Shows People Sleep Even Less Than They Think

Americans sleep much less than they should, and even less than they think

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  • By Sci/Tech News Staff
  • July 5th, 2006
How Sensory Deprivation in Children May Lead to Abnormal Brain Function as Adults

How Sensory Deprivation in Children May Lead to Abnormal Brain Function as Adults

The National Institutes of Health, through its Blueprint for the Neurosciences program, has awarded a $10.3 million, five-year grant for neuroscience research at the University of Wyoming

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  • By Sci/Tech News Staff
  • July 4th, 2006
What Teenagers Want

What Teenagers Want

Psychology professor Joseph Allen and education professor Robert Pianta try to go beyond superficial criteria to the heart and soul of the classroom

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  • By Sci/Tech News Staff
  • July 4th, 2006
Graduated Driver Licensing Reduces Fatal Crashes by 11 Percent

Graduated Driver Licensing Reduces Fatal Crashes by 11 Percent

According to researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's Center for Injury Research and Policy and the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

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  • By Sci/Tech News Staff
  • June 30th, 2006
Link Between Income And Happiness Is Mainly An Illusion

Link Between Income And Happiness Is Mainly An Illusion

Shows a new Princeton study conducted by economist Alan B. Krueger and psychologist and Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman

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  • By Sci/Tech News Staff
  • June 30th, 2006
How Cooperation Can Evolve in a Cheater's World

How Cooperation Can Evolve in a Cheater's World

A new game theory model explains how cooperation can pay off

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  • By Sci/Tech News Staff
  • June 30th, 2006
Detecting Prejudice in the Brain

Detecting Prejudice in the Brain

Brain processes social outsiders as less than human

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  • By Vlad Tarko
  • June 29th, 2006
Recording and Replaying Smells

Recording and Replaying Smells

A device that records and replays odors

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  • By Sci/Tech News Staff
  • June 29th, 2006
Five Tips for Improving the Employee Job Satisfaction

Five Tips for Improving the Employee Job Satisfaction

Offered by the Human Performance Institute

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  • By Sci/Tech News Staff
  • June 28th, 2006
'Big Brother' Eyes Encourage Honesty

'Big Brother' Eyes Encourage Honesty

People are more honest when they are watched by a poster

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  • By Sci/Tech News Staff
  • June 27th, 2006
All Work and No Fun: in the Long Run, Virtue is Regretted More than Vice

All Work and No Fun: in the Long Run, Virtue is Regretted More than Vice

Says a Columbia University study

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  • By Sci/Tech News Staff
  • June 27th, 2006
How Can We Be Symmetric on the Outside and Asymmetric on the Inside?

How Can We Be Symmetric on the Outside and Asymmetric on the Inside?

Vertebrates recycle Snail's genes and put them to different uses

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  • By Sci/Tech News Staff
  • June 27th, 2006
New Tool Tracks Brain Development in Babies

New Tool Tracks Brain Development in Babies

This could be essential for limiting permanent brain damage due to ischemia

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  • By Sci/Tech News Staff
  • June 26th, 2006
The Greater the Number of Bars in a Neighborhood, the Higher the Rates of Assault

The Greater the Number of Bars in a Neighborhood, the Higher the Rates of Assault

A new study analyzes the relationship between alcohol outlets and overnight hospital stays due to assaults

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  • By Sci/Tech News Staff
  • June 26th, 2006
Our Grip on Reality Is Slim

Our Grip on Reality Is Slim

Says University College London scientist

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  • By Sci/Tech News Staff
  • June 23rd, 2006
Kids Who Blow Bubbles Find Language As Being A Child's Play

Kids Who Blow Bubbles Find Language As Being A Child's Play

Researchers studied the links between non-language and language skills in children

 
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