Scientists to study synthetic telepathy August 13, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 47 vote(s)
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A team of UC Irvine scientists has been awarded a $4 million grant from the U.S. Army Research Office to study the neuroscientific and signal-processing foundations of synthetic telepathy. | |
Study examines the psychology behind students who don't cheat August 17, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 25 vote(s)
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While many studies have examined cheating among college students, new research looks at the issue from a different perspective – identifying students who are least likely to cheat. | |
Playing video games offers learning across life span, say studies August 17, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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Certain types of video games can have beneficial effects, improving gamers' dexterity as well as their ability to problem-solve – attributes that have proven useful not only to students but to surgeons, according to research ... | |
Adults easily fooled by children's false denials August 17, 2008 | User rating: 3.3 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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Adults are easily fooled when a child denies that an actual event took place, but do somewhat better at detecting when a child makes up information about something that never happened, according to new research from the University ... | |
Largest study of its kind implicates gene abnormalities in bipolar disorder August 17, 2008 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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A large genetic study of bipolar disorder has implicated machinery that balances levels of sodium and calcium in neurons. The disorder was associated with variation in two genes that make components of such ion channels. ... | |
1918 flu antibodies resurrected from elderly survivors August 17, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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Ninety years after the sweeping destruction of the 1918 flu pandemic, researchers at Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt have recovered antibodies to the virus – from elderly survivors of the original outbreak. | |
By amplifying cell death signals, scientists make precancerous cells self-destruct August 15, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 15 vote(s)
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When a cell begins to multiply in a dangerously abnormal way, a series of death signals trigger it to self-destruct before it turns cancerous. Now, in research to appear in the August 15 issue of Genes & Development, ... | |
Contraceptive pill influences partner choice August 13, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 23 vote(s)
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The contraceptive pill may disrupt women's natural ability to choose a partner genetically dissimilar to themselves, research at the University of Liverpool has found. | |
Study finds that sleep selectively preserves emotional memories August 14, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 21 vote(s)
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As poets, songwriters and authors have described, our memories range from misty water-colored recollections to vividly detailed images of the times of our lives. | |
'Don't Worry Be Happy': happiness is key to longer life August 14, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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Keep humming "Don't Worry Be Happy". The 1980s New Age-inspired hit got it right. New research shows being happy can add several years to life. | |
Biracial Asian Americans and mental health August 17, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
A new study of Chinese-Caucasian, Filipino-Caucasian, Japanese-Caucasian and Vietnamese-Caucasian individuals concludes that biracial Asian Americans are twice as likely as monoracial Asian Americans to be diagnosed with ... | |
New method to overcome multiple drug resistant diseases developed by Stanford researchers August 18, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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Many drugs once considered Charles Atlases of the pharmaceutical realm have been reduced to the therapeutic equivalent of 97-pound weaklings as the diseases they once dispatched with ease have developed resistance to them. | |
Switching it up: How memory deals with a change in plans August 18, 2008 | User rating: 3.6 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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You're about to leave work at the end of the day when your cell phone rings: it's your spouse, asking that you pick up a gallon of milk on the way home. Before you head out the door, though, your spouse calls again and asks ... | |
Scientists find a novel mechanism that controls the development of autoimmunity August 13, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
Scientists at the National Institutes of Health have found a mechanism in the immune systems of mice that can lead to the development of autoimmune disease when turned off. The findings shed light on the processes that lead ... | |
New approach needed to help street-based sex workers August 18, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Integrated multi-agency work will be needed to address the poor physical and mental health experienced by street-based sex workers (SSWs), according to recent research including a new study by . | |
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