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Talking aloud helps solve mathematical problems more quickly, according to a study

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

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Those students who think aloud while solving a mathematical problem can solve it faster and have more possibilities of finding the right solution that those who do not do it. Likewise, drawing or making a pictorial representation ...


Bioactive glass nanofibers produced

Bioactive glass nanofibers produced

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

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A team of researchers from the University of Vigo, Rutgers University in the United States and Imperial College London, in the United Kingdom, has developed "laser spinning", a novel method of producing glass ...


Major breakthrough may pave the way for therapeutic vaccines

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

It should be possible to use therapeutic vaccines to create both cheap and effective drugs for diseases like cancer and allergies. One problem in developing such vaccines has previously been the lack of adjuvants, substances ...


Proximity to convenience stores fosters child obesity

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Childhood obesity is directly related to how close kids live to convenience stores, according to the preliminary findings of a major Canadian study presented at the Entretiens Jacques-Cartier in Lyon, France. The ongoing ...


Cannabis and adolescence

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 1.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Canadian teenagers are among the largest consumers of cannabis worldwide. The damaging effects of this illicit drug on young brains are worse than originally thought, according to new research by Dr. Gabriella Gobbi, a psychiatric ...


Study identifies those elderly most at risk for major depression

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

University of Rochester Medical Center researchers have pinpointed the prime factors identifying which elderly persons are at the highest risk for developing major depression.


Breakthrough on causes of inflammatory bowel disease

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

New research by the University of Adelaide could help explain why some people are more prone to Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis and other autoimmune diseases.


Cancer survival disparities for most minority populations increase as cancers become more treatable

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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Racial and ethnic disparities in cancer survival are greatest for cancers that can be detected early and treated successfully, including breast and prostate cancer, according to a study by researchers at Columbia University's ...


Mobile tech 'can replace cheques'

Mobile tech 'can replace cheques'

Technology / Hi Tech

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(PhysOrg.com) -- With cheques due to be phased out in the UK by 2018 new security technology developed at Oxford University could offer a replacement, allowing people a secure way to pay in almost any situation.


Organic flash memory developed

Organic flash memory developed

Technology / Semiconductors

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (18) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of Tokyo have developed a non-volatile memory that has the same basic structure as a flash memory but is made from cheap, flexible, organic materials.



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