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  Native Ohioans' Speaking Patterns Help Scientists Decipher Famous Moon Landing Quote

  May 30, 2013 — Speech scientists and psychologists discuss a novel approach to deciphering Armstrong’s famous moon landing ... > full story
• Space Exploration
  Space Probes
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  NASA
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  NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale Team Assembles Final Observatory

  May 30, 2013 — On May 20, 2013, the Magnetospheric Multiscale, or MMS, mission team at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., reached an unprecedented milestone. The team mated the instrument and ... > full story
• Automotive and Transportation
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  Flirting With the Satnav

  May 29, 2013 — Researchers have investigated how drivers are affected emotionally by the sounds in their car other than the noise of the engine and the road in particular the voice of their satellite navigation ... > full story
• Tinnitus
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  Workplace Health
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  Scientists Find Mechanism That Causes Noise-Induced Tinnitus and Drug That Can Prevent It

  May 27, 2013 — An epilepsy drug shows promise in an animal model at preventing tinnitus from developing after exposure to loud noise, according to a new study. The findings reveal for the first time the reason the ... > full story
• Perception
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  Behavior
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  Help at Hand for Schizophrenics

  May 24, 2013 — How can healthy people who hear voices help schizophrenics? Finding the answer for this is at the center of research conducted by a group of scientists in ... > full story
• Optics
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  Gold Nanocrystal Vibration Captured on Billion-Frames-Per-Second Film

  May 23, 2013 — A billon-frames-per-second film has captured the vibrations of gold nanocrystals in stunning detail for the first ... > full story
• Physics
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  Making Chaos Visible: As Chaos Celebrates Its 50th Birthday, Biophysicist Christian Herbst Develops a New Method to Visualize It

  May 22, 2013 — Exactly 50 years after the US-American meteorologist Edward Lorenz discovered chaos (remember the "butterfly effect?") the topic is still as fascinating as ever. A new visualization technique helps ... > full story
• Media and Entertainment
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  How a Hollywood Box Office Success Can Translate Internationally

  May 22, 2013 — A researchers is looking at why some Hollywood movies are successful in the international box ... > full story
• Language Acquisition
  Child Development
  Perception
  Hearing Impairment
  Social Psychology
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  How Bilinguals Switch Between Languages

  May 20, 2013 — Individuals who learn two languages at an early age seem to switch back and forth between separate "sound systems" for each language, according to new research. The research addresses enduring ... > full story
• Perception
  Hearing Impairment
  Eye Care
  Hearing Loss
  Disability
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  Echolocation: Blind People Have the Potential to Use Their 'Inner Bat' to Locate Objects, Study Finds

  May 20, 2013 — New research shows that blind and visually impaired people have the potential to use echolocation, similar to that used by bats and dolphins, to determine the location of an object. The study ... > full story

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