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Our declarative memory is enhanced during sleep and leads to better results in tests and textbook learning

UN experts warn

But not to treat their mental symptoms

X-ray topography distinguishes individual crystal defects layer by layer

Eighteen months after the tragic tsunami of December 2004

The virus seems to be in transition between infectious and endogenous forms

Scientists combined the advantages of two sequencing methods in a hybrid approach

Experience plays an important early role in how infants learn to understand and produce language

The "island rule" seems to apply to oceans too

Researchers report on the cost of sociality

Microtubules grow stiffer as they grow longer

Shows a brain scanning study

Microbiologist discovers our planet is hard-wired with electricity-producing bacteria

With the exception of reduced numbers of animals in one pod of orca whales and one subpopulation of sea otters

Study shows how the central Illinois prairie was transformed into farmland in the 19th century

Oil development and other human-related activities jeopardize the ancient migration of pronghorn antelope in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem

HIV infections and deaths can be reduced in millions of sub-Saharan Africa inhabitants through circumcision