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• Today's Healthcare
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  Cost of Treating Dizziness in the Emergency Room Soars

  July 17, 2013 — Emergency room visits for severe dizziness have grown exponentially in recent years, with costs topping $3.9 billion in 2011 and projected to reach $4.4 billion by 2015. The investigators say ... > full story
• Intelligence
  Neuroscience
  Birds
  Psychology
  Nervous System
  Psychology Research
   
  

  Bird Brain? Birds and Humans Have Similar Brain Wiring

  July 17, 2013 — You may have more in common with a pigeon than you realize, according to ... > full story
• New Species
  Nature
  Biology
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  Organic
  Extinction
   
  

  Ecological Forces Structure Your Body's Personal Mix of Microbes

  July 16, 2013 — Environmental conditions have a stronger influence on the mix of microbes living in your body than does competition between species. Instead of excluding each other, microbes that fiercely compete ... > full story
• Biometric
  Engineering
  Information Technology
  Artificial Intelligence
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  Computer Science
   
  

  Eye-Tracking Could Outshine Passwords If Made User-Friendly

  July 16, 2013 — Engineers found in a recent study that the user's experience could be key to creating an authentication system that doesn't rely on ... > full story
• Computer Modeling
  Transportation Science
  Automotive and Transportation
  Mathematical Modeling
  Vehicles
  Communications
   

  New Model to Improve Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communication for 'Intelligent Transportation'

  July 16, 2013 — Imagine a transportation system where vehicles communicate directly with each other in real time, giving drivers warnings about traffic delays, allowing a single driver to control multiple vehicles ... > full story
• Immune System
  Prostate Cancer
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  Nanoparticles With Protein 'Passports' Evade Immune System, Deliver More Medication to Tumors

  July 16, 2013 — Scientists have found a way to sneak nanoparticles carrying tumor-fighting drugs past cells of the immune system, which would normally engulf the particles, preventing them from reaching their ... > full story
• Artificial Intelligence
  Intelligence
  Computer Science
  Computer Modeling
  Robotics
  Child Psychology
   
  

  Computer as Smart as a 4-Year-Old? Researchers IQ Test New Artificial Intelligence System

  July 15, 2013 — Artificial and natural knowledge researchers IQ-tested one of the best available artificial intelligence systems and learned that it's about as smart as the average ... > full story
• Computer Modeling
  Computers and Internet
  Communications
  Telecommunications
  Computer Programming
  Hacking
   

  Order of Events Taking Place in Complex Networks May Dramatically Alter the Way Diffusion Occurs

  July 15, 2013 — The Internet, motorways and other transport systems, and many social and biological systems are composed of nodes connected by edges. They can therefore be represented as networks. Scientists ... > full story
• Information Technology
  Computer Science
  Computers and Internet
  Distributed Computing
  Hacking
  Computer Modeling
   

  Solving DNA Puzzles Is Overwhelming Computer Systems, Researchers Warn

  July 15, 2013 — Scientists in the fast-growing field of computational genomics are getting lots of data but lack the computer power needed to analyze it ... > full story
• Educational Psychology
  Intelligence
  Child Development
  Child Psychology
  Language Acquisition
  Memory
   
  

  How to Keep Kids Engaged With Educational Games

  July 15, 2013 — If you want teams of students to stay engaged while playing educational games, you might want them to switch seats pretty often. That's one finding from a pilot study that evaluated how well middle ... > full story

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