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'One keypad per child' lets schoolchildren share screen to learn math

'One keypad per child' lets schoolchildren share screen to learn math (w/ Video)

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created 19 hours ago | popularity 2 / 5 (3) | comments 2

The slogan is "one laptop per child." But it will be a long time before that is true everywhere in the world. Meanwhile, a new device aims to make a situation that is common in poor areas - one computer shared ...


Texting, tweeting ought to be viewed as GR8 teaching tools, scholar says

Texting, tweeting ought to be viewed as GR8 teaching tools, scholar says

Technology / Hi Tech

created 21 hours ago | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The impact of text messaging on the decline of formal writing among teens has been debated in pedagogical circles ever since cell-phone ownership became an adolescent rite of passage in the mid-2000s. But ...


From fruit fly wings to heart failure -- why Not(ch)?

From fruit fly wings to heart failure -- why Not(ch)?

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Almost a century after it was discovered in fruit flies with notches in their wings, the Notch signalling pathway may come to play an important role in the recovery from heart attacks. In a study published ...


Mathematical models key to tracking gossip, terrorists

Mathematical models key to tracking gossip, terrorists

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Thanks to the Internet and online social networks (OSNs) news and gossip now spread literally like wildfire -- uncontrollably and seemingly without any order. But according to one Ryerson ...


Entropy alone creates complex crystals from simple shapes, study shows

Entropy alone creates complex crystals from simple shapes, study shows

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (21) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a study that elevates the role of entropy in creating order, research led by the University of Michigan shows that certain pyramid shapes can spontaneously organize into complex quasicrystals.


Carnegie Mellon scientists discover first evidence of brain rewiring in children

Scientists discover first evidence of brain rewiring in children

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Carnegie Mellon University scientists Timothy Keller and Marcel Just have uncovered the first evidence that intensive instruction to improve reading skills in young children causes the brain to physically ...


NC State vets lead way in disaster response for animals

NC State vets lead way in disaster response for animals

Medicine & Health / Other

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Most people can picture the first responders who come to the rescue in the wake of a natural disaster. But who provides emergency help for the dogs, cats and horses that people love? And who takes care of ...


Elusive protein points to mechanism behind hearing loss

Elusive protein points to mechanism behind hearing loss

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A serendipitous discovery of deaf zebra fish larvae has helped narrow down the function of an elusive protein necessary for hearing and balance. The work, led by Rockefeller University’s A. ...


Research is shattering traditioinal notions of laser limits

Research is shattering traditioinal notions of laser limits

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Air Force Office of Scientific Research and National Science Foundation-funded professor, Dr. Xiang Zhang has demonstrated at the University of California, Berkeley the world's smallest semiconductor laser, ...


Brain scans show distinctive patterns in people with generalized anxiety disorder

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scrambled connections between the part of the brain that processes fear and emotion and other brain regions could be the hallmark of a common anxiety disorder, according to a new study from the Stanford University School ...



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