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Impact of positive parenting can last for generations

A new study that looks at data on three generations of Oregon families shows that "positive parenting" - including factors such as warmth, monitoring children's activities, involvement, and consistency of discipline - not ...

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created Sep 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1




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Researchers find first Prehistoric Iberian twins

Researchers at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) have discovered the remains of newborn twin girls in the archaeological site of Olèrdola in Barcelona. They date back to between the middle ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created May 30, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

The transit of Venus

Many astronomers and members of the public in Britain will be getting up early on the morning of 6 June, so they can see the final Transit of Venus of the 21st century. The Transit, when Venus passes directly ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 29, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Talking works: UB professor develops method to analyze creative problem solving

(Phys.org) -- Talk -- if it's the right kind -- can increase creativity, leading students to create useful, new ideas that solve problems, a University at Buffalo professor has found by using a statistical tool that he invented.

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created May 25, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Maps of Miscanthus genome offer insight into grass evolution

Miscanthus grasses are used in gardens, burned for heat and energy, and converted into liquid fuels. They also belong to a prominent grass family that includes corn, sorghum and sugarcane. Two new, indepe ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created May 15, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Nearly one-tenth of hemisphere's mammals unlikely to outrun climate change: study

A safe haven could be out of reach for 9 percent of the Western Hemisphere's mammals, and as much as 40 percent in certain regions, because the animals just won't move swiftly enough to outpace climate change. ...

Biology / Ecology

created May 14, 2012 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (16) | comments 14 | with audio podcast

Agricultural bacteria: Blowing in the wind

The 1930s Dust Bowl proved what a disastrous effect wind can have on dry, unprotected topsoil. Now a new study has uncovered a less obvious, but equally troubling impact of wind: Not only can it carry away soil particles, ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Searching for exoplanet oceans more challenging than first thought

As astronomers continue to discover more exoplanets, the focus has slowly shifted from what sizes such planets are, to what they’re made of. First attempts have been made at determining atmospheric composition ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created May 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Stanford professors propose 'lecture-less' medical school classes

Dramatic changes are needed in medical student education, including a substantial reduction in the number of traditional lectures, according to a perspective piece to be published May 3 in the New England Journal of Medicine by two ...

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created May 03, 2012 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Game theory, in the real world

For students in New York and Boston, who have a range of options beyond their neighborhood school, choosing a high school used to be a maddeningly complicated guessing game. In Boston, for instance, many students would list ...

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created May 02, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Old star, new trick

The Big Bang produced lots of hydrogen and helium and a smidgen of lithium. All heavier elements found on the periodic table have been produced by stars over the last 13.7 billion years. Astronomers analyze starlight to determine ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Apr 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 30 | with audio podcast


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