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Tuesday, January 31, 2012
School-age children whose mothers nurtured them early in life have brains with a larger hippocampus, a key structure important to learning, memory and response to stress. The new research, by child psychiatrists and neuroscientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, is the first to show that changes in this critical region of children’s brain anatomy are linked to a mother’s nurturing.
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Craig Jones on 01/31 at 11:24 AM
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Friday, January 20, 2012
Georgia Tech researchers have studied the movements of snakes to create more efficient search-and-rescue robots.
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Craig Jones on 01/20 at 10:27 AM
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Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Their discovery represents new evidence on the ancient use of tobacco in the Mayan culture and a new method to understand the ancient roots of tobacco use in the Americas.
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Craig Jones on 01/11 at 10:58 AM
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Wednesday, January 04, 2012
The top 10 most popular news releases of 2011 on Newswise
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Thom Canalichio on 01/04 at 04:54 PM
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Wednesday, January 04, 2012
Opponents of same-sex couples adoption and marriage rights have long claimed that children of same-sex parents will suffer psychological damage as a result of their non-traditional upbringing. A new study in the Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics shows that children of same-sex parents experience as good quality of life as those with heterosexual parents
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Thom Canalichio on 01/04 at 11:06 AM
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Friday, December 16, 2011
Happiness has dropped over the last two years, University of Vermont research shows.
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Craig Jones on 12/16 at 12:24 PM
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Thursday, December 01, 2011
Given the obesity epidemic among the nation’s young, one would hope that children’s hospitals would serve as a role model for healthy eating. But hospitals in California fall short, with only 7 percent of entrees classified as “healthy.”
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Craig Jones on 12/01 at 04:19 PM
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Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Studies have shown that people who are overweight in middle age are more likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease decades later than people at normal weight, yet researchers have also found that people in the earliest stages of Alzheimer’s disease are more likely to have a lower body mass index (BMI). A current study examines this relationship between Alzheimer’s disease and BMI. The study is published in the November 22, 2011, print issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
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Craig Jones on 11/22 at 04:36 PM
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Thursday, November 10, 2011
Soon historians and political junkies will have more Richard Nixon material to kick around, thanks to a UW-Madison professor emeritus who has fought for years to get the secret records of the former president made public. Stanley Kutler, the UW emeritus professor of law and history whose successful court challenge is responsible for the release of the records, says the records will be a chance to hear Nixon minus his lawyers, handlers and “spinmeisters.”
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Craig Jones on 11/10 at 11:07 AM
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Wednesday, November 02, 2011
A research team used a combination of historical evidence and scientific modeling to recreate the acoustic environment of Renaissance period Venice churches.
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Thom Canalichio on 11/02 at 01:45 PM
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