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Gestures Lend A Hand In Learning Mathematics; Hand Movements Help Create New Ideas
February 24, 2009 — Gesturing helps students develop new ways of understanding mathematics. Scholars have known for a long time that movements help retrieve information about an event or physical activity associated ... > full story -
Number Of Fast-Food Restaurants In Neighborhood Associated With Stroke Risk
February 19, 2009 — Research suggests the more fast-food restaurants in a neighborhood, the higher the stroke risk for area residents. The study did not prove a cause-and-effect relationship between eating fast foods ... > full story -
Virtual Games Players Stick Close To Home
February 14, 2009 — Researchers have analyzed a "gold mine" of networking data from EverQuest II, a fantasy massive multiplayer online role-playing game, along with a survey of 7,000 players. Their findings include that ... > full story -
Pre-Verbal Number Sense Common To Monkeys, Babies, College Kids
February 13, 2009 — Scientists are studying how human adults and infants, lemurs, and monkeys think about numbers without using language. One researcher is looking for the brain systems that support number sense and ... > full story -
NOAA-N Prime Environmental Satellite Successfully Launched
February 9, 2009 — A new environmental satellite that will improve weather forecasting and monitor environmental events around the world soared into space recently after a picture-perfect launch from Vandenberg Air ... > full story -
Violent Computer Games Have Role In Fire Safety
February 3, 2009 — The software code underlying violent computer games can be used to train people in fire safety, new academic research has found. Commercial games such as Doom 3 and Half Life 2 can be used to build ... > full story -
Physically Fit Kids Do Better In School
January 28, 2009 — A new study found that physically fit kids scored better on standardized math and English tests than their less fit ... > full story -
Offspring Of Male Geezers: A New Wrinkle
January 21, 2009 — Although mammalian males can reproduce until late in life, evidence of hazards to offspring has emerged in human and animal models. Two new studies provide clear, well-controlled data of deleterious ... > full story -
Sometimes 100 Cents Feels Like It's Worth More Than A Dollar
January 21, 2009 — We all know that $1 is equal to 100 cents. But a new study suggests that, in some situations, people may behave as if 100 cents actually has more value. That's because people may pay more ... > full story -
Humans Are Reason For Why Domestic Animals Have Such Strange And Varied Coat Colors
January 16, 2009 — A new study on pigs reveals that the prime explanation for the bewildering diversity in coat color among our pigs, dogs and other domestic animals, is that humans have actively changed the coat color ... > full story
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