News tagged with background
Super-Sensors to Measure 'Signature' of Inflationary Universe (w/Video)
What happened in the first trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second after the Big Bang? Super-sensitive microwave detectors, built at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, may soon ...
May 03, 2009 |
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Young children think gender-related behavior is inborn
Young children think about gender in the same way they think about species of animals. They believe, for example, that a boy's preference for football is innate, as is a girl's preference for dolls, just as cats' behavior ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 29, 2009 |
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New research indicates protein plays role in diabetes
As the prevalence of diabetes has doubled in the U.S. over the past decade, doctors are only now beginning to unravel the complex series of cellular events that cause some people to develop the chronic disease, while others ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Apr 09, 2009 |
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Structure more effective in high school science classes, study reveals
Self-led, self-structured inquiry may be the best method to train scientists at the college level and beyond, but it's not the ideal way for all high school students to prepare for college science.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Mar 26, 2009 |
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A Forceful New Method to Sensitively Detect Proteins
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory recently reported the detection of toxins with unprecedented speed, sensitivity, and simplicity. The approach can sense as few as a few hundred molecules in a drop ...
Mar 13, 2009 |
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Our Health: Louder and louder world harms our hearing
So much noise. Rock concerts. Traffic. IPods. Always something in your ear. Until nature demands silence.
Feb 27, 2009 |
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Can virtual teachers plug the educational divide?
(PhysOrg.com) -- Bringing more technology into the classroom might strike fear into the hearts of traditional educationalists, but one academic believes it may just hold the key to solving a worldwide problem.
Feb 24, 2009 |
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Physicists offer foundation for uprooting a hallowed principle of physics
Physicists at Indiana University have developed a promising new way to identify a possible abnormality in a fundamental building block of Einstein's theory of relativity known as "Lorentz invariance." If confirmed, the abnormality ...
Jan 05, 2009 |
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