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  Civil Engineers Help Develop Easy-to-Read Highway Signs

  A new font called Clearview appears on new road signs, making them easier to read even at night. Developed by a team that included civil engineers, graphic designers, psychologists, and vision ... > more
• Virtual Reality
  Virtual Environment
  Educational Psychology
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  Psychologists, Human-Factors Engineers Design Computer-Generated Educational Outings

  Psychologists Janis Cannon-Bowers and Alicia Sanchez are part of the team that created virtual reality field trips -- not just for fun, but to help children learn. Employing some of the latest ... > more
• Intelligence
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  Cognitive Psychologists Show Conversations Lower Visual Abilities

  A study showed that the part of the brain that controls vision becomes less active when people focus on something visually while having a conversation -- underscoring the hazards of talking on your ... > more
• Brain Tumor
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  Neurosurgeons Can Now Remove Brain Cancer Endoscopically

  For more than a century, neurosurgeons have accessed the brain through the nose, but only recently did they successfully removed tumors with such minimally invasive procedures, leading to patients' ... > more
• Sleep Disorders
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  Orthodontists Diagnose Sleep Apnea More Easily with X-Rays

  Diagnosing sleep apnea -- a chronic condition that causes teen-agers to stop breathing during sleep -- is difficult and often means staying at an overnight sleep lab. A new test can spot with problem ... > more
• Pain Control
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  Neurosurgeon Devises MRI-Based Technique to Diagnose Sciatica

  Up to 40 million American suffer from sciatica pains, but the condition is often not diagnosed correctly. A new imaging technique uses a specially tuned MRI scan to image nerves and highlight them ... > more
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  Doctors and Engineers Develop Virtual-Reality Recovery for Stroke Victims

  Stroke survivors can often recover the use of a paralyzed arm, but it's a slow process. This could become easier with a new system made of a robotic arm and virtual reality software. The robot ... > more
• Information Technology
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  Physicists' Invention Opens Access to Computers for Persons with Tremors

  For $100, people with tremors could finally be able to use a computer mouse. A new mouse adapter filters out the high-frequency, shaky component of the movement, transmitting only the steady ... > more
• Teen Health
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  Neuroendocrinologists Unlock Chemical Trigger to Puberty

  Researchers have discovered the precise chemical chain reaction that could be the much-sought-after puberty trigger: The KiSS-1 gene, which produces a protein in the hypothalamus, a part of the ... > more
• Acoustics
  Hearing Impairment
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  Acousticians Improve Sound Quality of Cochlear Implants

  In a new study, 34 normal-hearing and 18 cochlear-implant subjects were tested on three speech-perception tasks known to be notoriously difficult for cochlear-implant users: speech recognition with a ... > more

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