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Preschoolers' Grasp of Numbers Predicts Math Performance in School Years; Early Number Sense Linked to Elementary Math Scores
September 14, 2011 — A new study reports that the precision with which preschoolers estimate quantities, prior to any formal education in mathematics, predicts their mathematics ability in elementary school, according to ... > full story -
New Mars Rover Snapshots Capture Endeavour Crater Vistas
August 24, 2011 — NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has captured new images of intriguing Martian terrain from a small crater near the rim of the large Endeavour crater. The rover arrived at the ... > full story -
Any Prime-Boost Mix of Injected or Spray Flu Vaccine Shields Toddlers: Broadest Immune Response from Nasal Spray Vaccine, Study Finds
August 16, 2011 — Children younger than 3 years old receive the same protective antibody response from the recommended two doses of licensed seasonal influenza vaccines regardless of whether the two doses are injected ... > full story -
NASA Mars Rover Opportunity Approaches Long-Term Goal
August 8, 2011 — The NASA Mars rover Opportunity has gained a view of Endeavour crater from barely more than a football-field's distance away from the rim. The rim of Endeavour has been the mission's long-term goal ... > full story -
You Can Count on This: Math Ability Is Inborn, New Research Suggests
August 8, 2011 — We accept that some people are born with a talent for music or art or athletics. But what about mathematics? Do some of us just arrive in the world with better math skills than others? It seems we ... > full story -
Sexually Extravagant Male Birds Age More Rapidly, but Try to Hide It
August 4, 2011 — For male houbara bustards sexual extravagance is the key to attracting mates in some of the world's harshest desert environments. However, new research reveals that males who perform the most ... > full story -
Getting to the Heart of the Appeal of Video Games
August 3, 2011 — People spend 3 billion hours a week playing video games but little is known scientifically about why they are actually fun in the first ... > full story -
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Helping Children Learn to Understand Numbers: It's All in the Way We Speak to Them
August 1, 2011 — Most people know how to count, but the way we master this ability remains something of a puzzle. Now a formal model of the cognitive basis of counting has been ... > full story -
Projections of Future Population Trends That Do Not Explicitly Include Education in Their Analysis May Be Flawed
July 28, 2011 — Future trends in global population growth could be significantly affected by improvements in both the quality and quantity of education, particularly female education. Projections of future ... > full story -
Research Reveals Why Hedge Funds Are an Unlikely Large Source of Systemic Risk
July 28, 2011 — A new study finds that hedge funds are moderately leveraged, leverage is counter-cyclical to the leverage of banks and the finance sector, and hedge fund leverage was at its lowest during the ... > full story
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