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Toddlers know when the tally is right: study

Parents keen on giving their child a jump on the competition can teach the rudiments of counting even before a toddler can talk, according to a study published Wednesday.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Feb 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Getting dust mites to leave homes on their own

House dust mites, nearly microscopic creatures that inhabit every crevice of our lives and make us sneeze, have long been assumed to be solitary in behavior. Now new research has shown that they are actually ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jan 06, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (10) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Is sense of direction hard wired, or is it learned?

Are we born with an innate sense of direction, or is it learned? Research from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology's Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience suggests that the brain comes hard-wired ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jun 17, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

We spend more on products with detailed nutritional information

People would be willing to pay more for products that carry detailed nutritional information than for the so-called light items. Thus it has been confirmed by researchers from the University of Santiago de ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Primordial fish had rudimentary fingers

Tetrapods, the first four-legged land animals, are regarded as the first organisms that had fingers and toes. Now researchers at Uppsala University can show that this is wrong. Using medical x-rays, they found rudiments ...

Biology /

created Sep 22, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (16) | comments 6

Looking at methane sources in the right light

Plants store one greenhouse gas, but emit another. Whereas they bind carbon dioxide, they release methane - albeit in small quantities. This has now been confirmed by scientists from the Max Planck Institute ...

Chemistry /

created May 27, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Professor Publishes Whimsical Book on Gravity and Black Holes

"The bubbles were swirling all around me, massaging my body…As I luxuriated in this fantastic bubble bath, my eyes grew heavy and I drifted into a supremely blissful slumber." So begins Alfie's encounter with a remarkable ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Nov 21, 2006 | popularity 2.6 / 5 (20) | comments 0

USC engineering class creates tools to analyze musical expression

Music expresses and elicits emotion. But how, exactly? Philosophers have been fascinated by the question since Pythagoras. At the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, Elaine Chew, assistant professor of industrial ...

Technology / Software

created May 11, 2006 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Stem cells: forgotten by evolution?

Max Planck scientists show that adult stem cells are possibly just the remnants of evolution For a fairly long time, adult stem cells have been a point of scientific interest. Besides the question of how to use ...

Other Sciences /

created Nov 02, 2005 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 0


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