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Eating Junk Food While Pregnant May Make Your Child a Junk Food Addict
February 28, 2013 — A healthy diet during pregnancy is critical to the future health of your children. New research suggests that pregnant mothers who consume junk food cause developmental changes of the opioid ... > full story -
Creating Your Own Animated 3-D Characters and Scenes for the Web
February 28, 2013 — To show spatial animations on websites, developers so far have had only two options: to use special software or to implement it from scratch. Computer scientists have developed a declarative markup ... > full story -
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Praising Children for Their Personal Qualities May Backfire
February 27, 2013 — Praising children, especially those with low self-esteem, for their personal qualities rather than their efforts may make them feel more ashamed when they fail, according to new ... > full story -
Sweet News for Stem Cell's 'Holy Grail'
February 26, 2013 — Scientists have used sugar-coated scaffolding to move a step closer to the routine use of stem cells in the clinic and unlock their huge potential to cure diseases from Alzheimer’s to ... > full story -
Spiderman's Webbing Would Be Strong Enough to Stop a Moving Train, Say Physics Students
February 25, 2013 — In Spiderman 2, the superhero uses his webbing to bring a runaway train to a standstill moments before it plummets over the end of the track. But could a material with the strength and toughness of ... > full story -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Largest Known Prime Number Discovered; Has 17,425,170 Digits
February 13, 2013 — On Jan. 25, the largest known prime number, 257,885,161-1, 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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