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Study to explore if more sleep will help teens shake off depression
Nov 05, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- After a late night of texting or updating Facebook, it's hardly surprising that many teenagers show up groggy for school, which studies have shown can diminish academic performance. To address this troubling ...
Recognizing children's successes in all areas may prevent teenage depression
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Jan 08, 2009 |
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Students' successes in the first grade can affect more than their future report cards. In a new study, University of Missouri researchers found links among students' weak academic performance in the first grade, self-perceptions ...
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Want to live well? Harvard experts offer pragmatic pointers on getting healthy and staying there
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You are what you eat. You're also how you feel, how you exercise, how you sleep, how you handle money, how you relate to people, and what you value.
Studying how black holes grow
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Black holes are some of the most exotic objects in the universe. They are the final evolutionary stage of giant stars much larger than the sun. When these stars explode, their cores collapse down to the size ...
Predicting insurgent attacks with a mathematical model
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When bombs and bullets left 37 dead during Friday prayers at a mosque in Pakistan, earlier this month, the insurgency was using the element of surprise. Unpredictability is the hallmark of modern insurgent attacks such as ...
Science's breakthrough of the year: Uncovering 'Ardi'
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The research that brought to light the fossils of Ardipithecus ramidus, a hominid species that lived 4.4 million years ago in what is now Ethiopia, has topped Science's list of this year's most significant s ...
Fertilizer use not always helpful in revegetation efforts
Dec 17, 2009 |
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Companies and communities trying to restore vegetation on damaged northern landscapes should think twice about using fertilizer to stimulate growth according to new research published in the November issue of Arctic, Antarctic an ...
New report underlines multiple benefits but also new challenges to biodiversity-rich sites
Dec 17, 2009 |
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An agreement in Copenhagen to fund reduced emissions from deforestation may generate multiple environmental and economic benefits if investments simultaneously target sites that are both carbon and biodiversity-rich.
Study identifies those elderly most at risk for major depression
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Dec 17, 2009 |
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University of Rochester Medical Center researchers have pinpointed the prime factors identifying which elderly persons are at the highest risk for developing major depression.
China rapidly catching up in research impact
Dec 17, 2009 |
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Data from a recent Thomson Reuters study show that Chinese research output has increased from just over 20,000 papers in 1998 to nearly 112,000 in 2008.
Japan mines toxic e-waste for precious materials
Dec 17, 2009 |
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Seeking to turn an environmental problem into an economic opportunity, high-tech companies in resource-poor Japan are mining mountains of toxic e-waste for precious materials.
WHO to send swine flu vaccine to poor countries
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Dec 17, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The World Health Organization plans to start shipping swine flu vaccine to Azerbaijan, Afghanistan and Mongolia in the next few weeks, flu chief Keiji Fukuda said Thursday.
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