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The new myths of gifted education (w/ Podcast)

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1

More than 25 years after myths about gifted education were first explored, they are all still with us and new ones have been added, according to research published in the current Gifted Child Quarterly (GCQ), the official journa ...


The world's most common operation

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

As many as 10 million people around the world suffer from cataracts. Thomas Kohnen of the Goethe University in Frankfurt and his coauthors discuss cataract surgery with the implantation of an artificial lens in the current ...


Shifting blame is socially contagious

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 3

Merely observing someone publicly blame an individual in an organization for a problem - even when the target is innocent - greatly increases the odds that the practice of blaming others will spread with the tenacity of the ...


Researchers identify proteins in lung cancer cells that may provide potential drug targets

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and the Boston University Biomedical Engineering Department have identified a number of proteins whose activation allows them to distinguish between cancer and ...


Heart disease found in Egyptian mummies

Heart disease found in Egyptian mummies

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Hardening of the arteries has been detected in Egyptian mummies, some as old as 3,500 years, suggesting that the factors causing heart attack and stroke are not only modern ones; they afflicted ancient people, ...


Lessons from oil industry may help address groundwater crisis

Lessons from oil industry may help address groundwater crisis

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Although declining streamflows and half-full reservoirs have gotten most of the attention in water conflicts around the United States, some of the worst battles of the next century may be over groundwater, ...


Saving the single cysteine: new antioxidant system found (w/ Video)

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- We've all read studies about the health benefits of having a life partner. The same thing is true at the molecular level, where amino acids known as cysteines are much more vulnerable to damage when single ...


New research into the mechanisms of gene regulation

New research into the mechanisms of gene regulation

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team led by Penn State's Ross Hardison, T. Ming Chu Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, has taken a large step toward unraveling how regulatory proteins control the production ...


Maya

New insights into the life of the Maya

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (17) | comments 7

(PhysOrg.com) -- Ancient artifacts are almost always concerned with rich and powerful religious and political leaders, but new excavations of an ancient Maya site have unearthed a pyramid decorated with murals ...


Cataract surgery does not appear associated with worsening of age-related macular degeneration

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Age-related macular degeneration does not appear to progress at a higher rate among individuals who have had surgery to treat cataract, contrary to previous reports that treating one cause of vision loss worsens the other, ...



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