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  Test Your Skills As A "Galaxy Hunter"

  July 19, 2002 — In "Galaxy Hunter," students can go online and use actual data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to study galaxies in deep space. Produced by the formal education team at the Space ... > full story
• Space Telescopes
  Astronomy
  NASA
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  U.S. High School Students To Control Web Telescope In Chile

  July 18, 2002 — In just a few months, a group of U.S. high school students will be able to view the night sky from south of the equator as they beta test a remote-control telescope in Chile via the ... > full story
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  Soccer-Playing Robots Highlight Latest Robotics, AI Technology

  June 6, 2002 — The World Cup isn't the only high-stakes soccer tournament hitting Asia this month. Teams of soccer-playing robots, including one developed by Ohio University faculty and student engineers, will ... > full story
• Child Development
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  Hearing Infants Show Preference For Sign Language Over Pantomime

  June 5, 2002 — Six-month-old hearing infants exposed to American Sign Language (ASL) for the first time prefer it to pantomime, lending new evidence that humans show a broad preference for languages over ... > full story
• Children's Health
  Hearing Impairment
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  New Hearing Test Simulates Noise Of Real World

  May 27, 2002 — University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher Ruth Litovsky has developed a hearing test that simulates the noisy real world, and the results could improve our understanding not only of hearing but also ... > full story
• Perception
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  Child Development
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  Study Suggests Infants "Tune In" To Familiar Face Groups

  May 20, 2002 — How good are you at recognizing the faces of monkeys? Chances are, you were very good at six months of age, but by nine months you were only good--or at least fast--at discriminating between faces of ... > full story
• Language Acquisition
  Child Development
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  Educational Psychology
  Hearing Impairment
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  New Language Learning Linked To Early Language Experience

  May 2, 2002 — The ability to learn a new language is determined by the onset of language experience during early brain development – regardless of the specific form of the language experience. This is the ... > full story
• Software
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  Plagiarism-Detection Software Stems Students' Use Of "Paper Mills"

  May 1, 2002 — Plagiarism isn’t just a problem for publishers and best-selling historians. It’s also a pain for professors, whose students can buy essays over the Internet, rather than write them. ... > full story
• Neuroscience
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  Brain Center Searches For Patterns

  April 8, 2002 — Duke University Medical Center researchers have discovered the brain region that automatically watches for patterns in sequences of events, even when the pattern emerges by random happenstance. ... > full story
• Mars
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  Students Begin Exploring Mars With NASA's Mars Odyssey Spacecraft

  March 26, 2002 — A group of small, unnamed craters in the martian southern hemisphere is the first site captured by a group of middle school students who are operating the camera system onboard NASA’s Mars ... > full story

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