News tagged with number
As easy as 1, 2, 3: Number sense correlates with test scores
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 07, 2008 |
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Knowing how precisely a high school freshman can estimate the number of objects in a group gives you a good idea how well he has done in math as far back as kindergarten, researchers at The Johns Hopkins University found.
Indigenous children don't need number words to 'count', says new study
Aug 18, 2008 |
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The study, by researchers from the University of Melbourne and University College London, is set to be published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Hunting the elusive L-function
Aug 06, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- There was a lot of excitement last month about ‘L-functions’. A PhD student in the Department of Mathematics, University of Bristol, Ce Bian, in collaboration with his supervisor, Dr Andrew ...
Gasoline stations set prices to match a small number of other stations
Jul 31, 2008 |
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For many years, there have been competition concerns regarding how retail gasoline prices are set in the U.S. and Canada. Consumers have complained about the perceived uniformity of retail gas prices and the perception that ...
Do birds have a good sense of smell?
Biology /
Jul 16, 2008 |
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The sense of smell might indeed be as important to birds as it is to fish or even mammals. This is the main conclusion of a study by Silke Steiger (Max Planck Institute for Ornithology) and her colleagues. ...
Phoenix to Bake Ice-Rich Sample Next Week
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 03, 2008 |
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The next sample delivered to NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's Thermal and Evolved-Gas Analyzer (TEGA) will be ice-rich.
