The school bully -- does it run in the family?
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A shove, a taunt or name-calling on the playground or in the hall, away from the eyesight, earshot and authority of the teacher – childhood bullying can involve physical contact, spreading rumors and other negative behaviors ...
Researchers introduce next generation tool for visualizing genomic data
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Aug 04, 2008 |
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Researchers are collecting vast amounts of diverse genomic data with ever-increasing speed, but effective ways to visualize these data in an integrated manner have lagged behind the ability to generate them. To address this ...
Great white's mighty bite revealed
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The bite force of a great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) is the highest known for any living species, according to new research to be published in the Journal of Zoology. This is the first time that scientists have e ...
Climate change and species distributions
Aug 04, 2008 |
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Scientists have long pointed to physical changes in the Earth and its atmosphere, such as melting polar ice caps, sea level rise and violent storms, as indicators of global climate change. But changes in climate can wreak ...
Voluntary exercise does not appear to alleviate anxiety and depression
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Voluntary physical activity does not appear to cause a reduction in anxiety and depression, but exercise and mood may be associated through a common genetic factor, according to a report in the August issue of Archives of ...
Study: verbal aggression may affect children's behavior
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
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The methods mothers use to control their children during playtime and other daily activities could have a negative impact on their child's self-esteem and behavior, according to a new Purdue University study.
Shape, not just size, impacts effectiveness of emerging nanomedicine therapies
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
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In the budding field of nanotechnology, scientists already know that size does matter. But now, researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have shown that shape matters even more — a finding that could ...
Scientists discover networks of metal nanoparticles are culprits in alloy corrosion
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
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Oxide scales are supposed to protect alloys from extensive corrosion, but scientists at U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have discovered metal nanoparticle chinks in this armor.
First Details on a Future Intel Design Codenamed 'Larrabee'
Aug 04, 2008 |
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Intel Corporation is presenting a paper at the SIGGRAPH 2008 industry conference in Los Angeles on Aug. 12 that describes features and capabilities of its first-ever forthcoming "many-core" blueprint or architecture codenamed ...
A new look at how memory and spatial cognition are related
Aug 04, 2008 |
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In a study that sheds new light on how memory and spatial cognition are related to each other in the brain, researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and the Veteran Affairs (VA) San Diego ...
Not quite a teen, not fully an adult
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 04, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Fueled by hormone fluctuations, the teenage years can be a time of huge emotional upheaval. But, as an initiative by MIT's Young Adult Development Project finds, the roller coaster may not end at the 18th ...
Electronic tongue tastes wine variety, vintage
Aug 04, 2008 |
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You don't need a wine expert to identify a '74 Pinot Noir from Burgundy – a handheld "electronic tongue" devised by European scientists will tell you the grape variety and vintage at the press of a button.
Rock art marks transformations in traditional Peruvian societies
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
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Peru is one of the Latin American countries, like Argentina and Brazil, where rock art is thought to have developed throughout a period stretching from 10,000 BC to 1500 AD. The wealth and diversity of the series of pictorial ...
Little teeth suggest big jump in primate timeline
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
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Tiny fossilized teeth excavated from an Indian open-pit coal mine could be the oldest Asian remains ever found of anthropoids, the primate lineage of today's monkeys, apes and humans, say researchers from Duke University ...
Teacher-student relationships key to learning health and sex education
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When it comes to learning life-changing behaviors in high school health classes, the identity of the person teaching may be even more important than the curriculum, a new study suggests.
