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  Should Grandma Join Facebook? It May Give Her a Cognitive Boost, Study Finds

  February 21, 2013 — Preliminary research findings suggest learning to use Facebook may help give adults older than 65 a cognitive boost. The study shows that seniors who learned to use Facebook saw improvements in their ... > full story
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  Six in Ten People Worldwide Lack Access to Flush Toilets or Other Adequate Sanitation

  February 20, 2013 — It may be the 21st century, with all its technological marvels, but 6 out of every 10 people on Earth still do not have access to flush toilets or other adequate sanitation that protects the user and ... > full story
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  New Analysis of Genesis Reveals 'Death Sandwich' Literary Theme

  February 20, 2013 — An online tool has, for the first time, revealed a common literary technique in the Book of Genesis that has remained hidden in the text for ... > full story
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  New Method to Measure the Redundancy of Information

  February 14, 2013 — Understanding information as well as its redundancy, or duplication, has been crucial in the development of many of our everyday items such mobile phones, the internet, the compact disc as well as ... > full story
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  Largest Known Prime Number Discovered; Has 17,425,170 Digits

  February 13, 2013 — On Jan. 25, the largest known prime number, 2^57,885,161-1, was discovered on Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) volunteer Curtis Cooper's computer. The new prime number, 2 ... > full story
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  Cracking the Semantic Code: Half a Word's Meaning Is 3-D Summary of Associated Rewards

  February 13, 2013 — Half of a word's meaning is simply a three dimensional summary of the rewards associated with it, according to an analysis of millions of blog entries undertaken by ... > full story
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  Reproductive Workings of a Harvester Ant Dynasty

  February 12, 2013 — For the first time, scientists have measured how successfully a queen ant establishes new colonies. The work revealed that the queen was still reproducing several decades after ... > full story
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  Problem-Solving Training Helps Mothers Cope With Child's Cancer Diagnosis

  February 12, 2013 — A multi-site clinical trial of BRIGHT Ideas problem-solving training shows durable benefits in mothers of children diagnosed with ... > full story
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  New Study Examines Victims and Cyberstalking

  February 12, 2013 — Victims of cyberstalking take more self-protective measures, pay higher out-of-pocket costs to combat the problem and experience greater fear over time than traditional stalking victims, said a ... > full story
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  Making Homemade Guns on a 3-D Printer Becomes Real, So Engineering Expert Suggests Stronger Laws on Gunpowder

  February 11, 2013 — Making homemade guns on a 3-D printer becomes real, so engineering expert suggests stronger laws on ... > full story

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