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New study reveals: Gifted children shape their personalities according to social stigma
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Mar 03, 2009 |
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Gifted youths already know what they want to be when they grow up. They usually choose to study applied sciences, but when they are asked why they made their choices, they are not able to explain.
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Climate Wizard makes large databases of climate information visual, accessible
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A Web tool that generates color maps of projected temperature and precipitation changes using 16 of the world's most prominent climate-change models is being used to consider such things as habitat shifts that will affect ...
Sleep and Cancer: Uncomfortable Bedfellows
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Newly-diagnosed cancer patients face a number of life-long challenges, but a new study from the Duke Clinical Research Institute suggests that a lack of sleep may be one of the most persistent and disruptive. ...
Psychologist to examine childhood depression
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
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Research by Binghamton University psychologist Brandon Gibb could provide new weapons for the fight against childhood depression. Working with colleagues around the country, he hopes to identify the causes of mental-health ...
Close-up photos of dying star show our sun's fate (w/ Video)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- About 550 light-years from Earth, a star like our Sun is writhing in its death throes. Chi Cygni has swollen in size to become a red giant star so large that it would swallow every planet ...
The importance of attractiveness depends on where you live
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
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Do good-looking people really benefit from their looks, and in what ways? A team of researchers from the University of Georgia and the University of Kansas found that yes; attractive people do tend to have more social relationships ...
Insomnia symptoms linked with medical complaints in young school-aged children
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A study in the Dec. 15 issue of the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine indicates that significant associations exist between parent-reported insomnia symptoms and medical complaints of gastrointestinal regurgitation and he ...
Regular coffee, decaf and tea all associated with reduced risk for diabetes
Dec 14, 2009 |
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Individuals who drink more coffee (regular or decaffeinated) or tea appear to have a lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes, according to an analysis of previous studies reported in the December 14/28 issue of Archives of ...
Rain or Shine? Computer Models How Brain Cells Reach a Decision
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Dec 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Yale University researchers have devised a computer model to explain how the brain makes decisions based on statistical probabilities-as, for instance, when a doctor makes a diagnosis based on several conflicting ...
Cognitive therapy key to tackling depression
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Dec 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- New research from The University of Western Ontario shows why people suffering from depression may have a far greater hope of finding lasting relief by receiving cognitive therapy, rather than simply taking ...
New criteria to project preemies' time in hospital, says researcher
Dec 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have developed a new way to estimate when the tiniest preemies -- babies born months early -- will go home from the hospital.
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