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Relationship found between napping, hyperactivity, depression and anxiety

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 08, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Napping may have a significant influence on young children's daytime functioning, according to a research abstract that will be presented at SLEEP 2009, the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies.





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Social media require 'Community Relations 2.0'

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Oct 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The rise of social media and real-time advocacy have re-written the community outreach rules companies followed for decades. But many American firms are dragging their feet as they approach "Community Relations 2.0," Boston ...


Fibre may keep asthma, diabetes at bay, study finds

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 1

Insoluble dietary fibre, or roughage, not only keeps you regular, say Australian scientists, it also plays a vital role in the immune system, keeping certain diseases at bay.


Researchers unravel brain's wiring to understand memory

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Sep 28, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Using a powerful microscope, Karel Svoboda, a brain scientist at the Janelia Farm Research Campus in Ashburn, Va., peers through a plastic window in the top of a mouse's head to watch its brain's neurons sprout new connections ...


Does the H1N1 vaccine contain mercury?

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Sep 15, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (9) | comments 0

In the words of President Obama "don't be alarmed, be prepared" for the swine flu (or, officially, the H1N1 virus). But what if the preparation is more alarming than the flu?


7 shuttle astronauts are parents of many children

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Aug 24, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- All seven astronauts on space shuttle Discovery's mission are parents, and they have 20 children among themselves.


Dementia induced and blocked in Parkinson's fly model

Medicine & Health / Research

created Aug 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Parkinson's disease is well-known for impairing movement and causing tremors, but many patients also develop other serious problems, including sleep disturbances and significant losses in cognitive function known as dementia.


Phosphorous Delivered to Gulf of Mexico

The Mighty Mississippi Basin and Gulf Suffocating: Inertia Not An Option

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jul 27, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (11) | comments 20

The Water Science and Technology Board, (WTSB), Division on Earth and Life Sciences of the National Research Council has released for publication its study for improving water quality in the Mississippi River ...


Rsearcher creates weight-gain guidelines for women pregnant with twins

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jul 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Healthy, normal-weight women pregnant with twins should gain between 37 and 54 pounds, according to research from a Michigan State University professor who helped shape the recently released national guidelines on gestational ...


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Sleep helps build long-term memories

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jun 24, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Experts have long suspected that part of the process of turning fleeting short-term memories into lasting long-term memories occurs during sleep. Now, researchers at the RIKEN-MIT Center for ...


Tweet success: It's easy to lose interest in Twitter, but there are reasons to stick with it

Technology / Internet

created Jun 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

You've created an account and started following some users. You may have even sent a few tweets out into the world, expressing how you feel about the economy or the weather or the season finale of your favorite TV show.



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