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Posted October 6, 2011:

• Preschool Program Improves Standardized Test Scores Through Grade 5

Posted October 5, 2011:

• Practical Play: Interactive Video Games Appear Valuable for ICU Patients

Posted October 3, 2011:

• Priming With DNA Vaccine Makes Avian Flu Vaccine Work Better: Proof of Concept for Universal Influenza Vaccine

Posted September 30, 2011:

• Early to Bed and Early to Rise: Study Suggests It's Keeping Kids Leaner

Posted September 15, 2011:

• Put Down That Game Controller: Researcher Suggests Video Games May Not Boost Cognition

Posted September 14, 2011:

• Preschoolers' Grasp of Numbers Predicts Math Performance in School Years; Early Number Sense Linked to Elementary Math Scores

Posted August 24, 2011:

• New Mars Rover Snapshots Capture Endeavour Crater Vistas

Posted August 16, 2011:

• Any Prime-Boost Mix of Injected or Spray Flu Vaccine Shields Toddlers: Broadest Immune Response from Nasal Spray Vaccine, Study Finds

Posted August 8, 2011:

• NASA Mars Rover Opportunity Approaches Long-Term Goal
• You Can Count on This: Math Ability Is Inborn, New Research Suggests

Posted August 4, 2011:

• Sexually Extravagant Male Birds Age More Rapidly, but Try to Hide It

Posted August 3, 2011:

• Getting to the Heart of the Appeal of Video Games

Posted August 1, 2011:

• Helping Children Learn to Understand Numbers: It's All in the Way We Speak to Them

Posted July 28, 2011:

• Projections of Future Population Trends That Do Not Explicitly Include Education in Their Analysis May Be Flawed
• Research Reveals Why Hedge Funds Are an Unlikely Large Source of Systemic Risk

Posted July 27, 2011:

• Bionic Microrobot Mimics the 'Water Strider' and Walks on Water
• Teacher Influence Persists in Early Grades

Posted July 21, 2011:

• Chromosome Number Changes in Yeast

Posted July 19, 2011:

• NASA's Opportunity Tops 20 Miles of Mars Driving
• Time and Numbers Mix Together in the Brain

Posted July 18, 2011:

• 'Simon Says': Preschool-Age Kids in Different Countries Improve Academically Using Self-Regulation Game

Posted July 11, 2011:

• Key Early Skills for Later Math Learning Discovered

Posted July 6, 2011:

• Eye of Gaia: Billion-Pixel Camera to Map Milky Way

Posted June 30, 2011:

• Predicting Locations for Deer Vs. Car Collisions

Posted June 29, 2011:

• Women Get Up Sooner Than Men After a Fall in Soccer, Study Finds

Posted June 23, 2011:

• Building a Better Math Teacher

Posted June 22, 2011:

• Sharing Wisdom, Teacher to Teacher
• Cancer Survivors Have Lower Employment Rates and Work Fewer Hours, Study Suggests

Posted June 17, 2011:

• NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Completes First Round of Cryogenic Mirror Test
• Poor 'Gut Sense' of Numbers Contributes to Persistent Math Difficulties

Posted June 14, 2011:

• Protecting Medical Implants from Attack
• Learning to Count Not as Easy as 1, 2, 3: Working With Larger Numbers Matters

Posted June 9, 2011:

• Want Better Math Teachers? Then Train Them Better

Posted June 6, 2011:

• Be It Numbers or Words, the Structure of Our Language Remains the Same

Posted May 26, 2011:

• Students Struggling With Math May Have a Neurocognitive Disorder Called Dyscalculia: Disorder Affects Roughly as Many People as Dyslexia

Posted May 25, 2011:

• Children Experience Wrist and Finger Pain When Using Gaming Devices and Mobile Phones Over Time, Study Suggests

Posted May 24, 2011:

• A New System Increases Network Communication Security and Anonymity

Posted May 17, 2011:

• Hardware Encryption Developed for New Computer Memory Technology

Posted May 11, 2011:

• Saving Kenya's Lake Naivasha: Efforts to Improve Sustainability

Posted May 10, 2011:

• Video Game Effects on Kids: Not All Black and White, Expert Argues

Posted May 5, 2011:

• Brain Region That Influences Gambling Decisions Pinpointed

Posted May 4, 2011:

• Spring Babies Face Anorexia Risk, Study Suggests

Posted May 2, 2011:

• Inconsistent Math Curricula Hurting US Students, Study Finds
• Statins May Stave Off Septic Lung Damage, New Research Finds

Posted April 22, 2011:

• Over Range of ADHD Behavior, Genes Major Force on Reading Achievement, Environment on Math

Posted April 15, 2011:

• Mothers Who Breastfeed Often Viewed as Less Competent Than Other Women, Study Finds

Posted April 7, 2011:

• Video Games Effective Treatment for Stroke Patients
• Simple Arithmetic for Faster, More Secure Websites

Posted April 6, 2011:

• Tungsten May Not Be the Best Shot for Making 'Green' Bullets

Posted April 4, 2011:

• Research Questions the Educational Possibilities of Some TV and Computer Games

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