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'Happiness gap' in the US narrows
Jan 26, 2009 |
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Happiness inequality in the U.S. has decreased since the 1970s, according to research published this month in the Journal of Legal Studies.
Researchers gain new insight on wonder of cell division
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Dec 04, 2008 |
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Biologists have discovered a mechanism that is critical to cytokinesis -- nature's completion of mitosis, where a cell divides into two identical daughter cells.
Gender gap in math confidence is studied
Jul 27, 2005 |
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A survey of middle school girls suggests their self-confidence in math suffers when their parents believe math is a male domain.
Team learns how cellular protein detects viruses and sparks immune response
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Feb 19, 2009 |
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A study led by researchers at the University of Illinois reveals how a cellular protein recognizes an invading virus and alerts the body to the infection.
The human brain: Detective of auditory and visual change
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 18, 2008 |
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The human brain is capable of detecting the slightest visual and auditory changes. Whether it is the flash of a student’s hand into the air or the faintest miscue of a flutist, the brain instantaneously and effortlessly perceives ...
Domain walls that conduct electricity
Jan 29, 2009 |
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The logic and memory functions of future electronic devices could shrink dramatically - to one or two nanometers (billionths of a meter) instead of the many tens of nanometers that characterize today's most ...
Racial Segregation Fuels Early Black-White Achievement Gap, Data Suggest
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Oct 01, 2009 |
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Racial segregation of schools, and thereby segregated neighborhoods, appears to be a leading source of academic achievement disparities between young black and white children, according to research by sociologist Dennis J. ...
Energy gap useful tool for successful weight loss maintenance strategy
Nov 04, 2009 |
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Americans continue to get heavier. Most weight control methods short of bariatric surgery are generally considered ineffective in preventing obesity or reducing weight. The term energy gap was coined to estimate the change ...
Study: Higher education playing bigger role in gender wage gap
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Aug 09, 2009 |
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While higher education has helped women narrow their long-running wage gap with men, there is one college-related factor that has becoming increasingly important in perpetuating that gap, according to new research.
Small classes give extra boost to low-achieving students
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Oct 14, 2009 |
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Small classes in early grades improve test scores in later grades for students of all achievement levels, but low achievers get an extra boost. That's the finding of a study on the long-term effects of class size in the November ...
Developing fruit fly embryo is capable of genetic corrections
Mar 10, 2009 |
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Animals have an astonishing ability to develop reliably, in spite of variable conditions during embryogenesis. New research, published in parallel this week in PLoS Biology and PLoS Computational Biology, ...
Study: Small Classes Give Extra Boost to Low-Achieving Students
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Oct 01, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Small classes in early grades improve test scores in later grades for students of all achievement levels, but low achievers get an extra boost. That’s the finding of a study on the long-term effects of class ...
ITRAC on track and bridging gap between academic research and applied discovery
Jan 25, 2008 |
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In a novel manner which gives new meaning to the word transformative, researchers from the Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center are integrating some of the best practices of industry into the strengths of ...
Stretching opens up possibilities for graphene
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Sep 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers say they have found a simple way to improve the semiconducting properties of the world’s thinnest material - by giving it a good tug.
Landmark study unlocks stem cell, DNA secrets to speed therapies
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Oct 10, 2008 |
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In a groundbreaking study led by an eminent molecular biologist at Florida State University, researchers have discovered that as embryonic stem cells turn into different cell types, there are dramatic corresponding ...
