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Falling birth rates shift rotavirus epidemics
Fewer births in states such as California may be delaying the annual onset of a common intestinal virus in the southwest, according to epidemiologists. The timing of infectious outbreaks in other locations such as the northeast ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jul 16, 2009 |
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Pulling back the curtain: MIT anthropologist peers into the mysterious world of professional magicians
Magicians can make cards appear and people disappear. But the greatest trick any magician pulls off may be acquiring the knowledge needed to perform such acts in the first place.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Sep 16, 2011 |
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Good vibrations lead to molecular revelation
(PhysOrg.com) -- A little luck and the wisdom to recognize what they were seeing helped Rice University researchers solve a molecular conundrum in a way that could be a boon to chemists.
Mar 14, 2011 |
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Green Carbon Center takes all-inclusive view of energy
Rice University has created a Green Carbon Center to bring the benefits offered by oil, gas, coal, wind, solar, geothermal, biomass and other energy sources together in a way that will not only help ensure the world's energy ...
Oct 22, 2010 |
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Researchers calculate the cost of CO2 emissions, call for carbon tax
Two Rice University researchers are calling on policymakers to encourage the transition from coal-based electricity production to a system based on natural gas through a carbon tax.
Jul 07, 2010 |
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Modernization Affects Children's Cognitive Development
(PhysOrg.com) -- Childhood is changing rapidly around the world, and the forces of modernization have a significant impact on shaping the intellectual development of children, researchers at the University of California, ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 17, 2009 |
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Does modernization affect children's cognitive development?
Societal and technological changes have taken place at a dizzying pace over recent decades. A new cross-cultural study aimed to determine whether these dramatic changes have had an effect on the thinking skills that are learned ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 13, 2009 |
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First 'nanorust' field test slated in Mexico
Rice University researchers today announced that the first field tests of "nanorust," the university's revolutionary, low-cost technology for removing arsenic from drinking water, will begin later this year ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
May 27, 2009 |
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Scientists eye risks of quantum dots
Quantum dots have the potential to bring many good things into the world: efficient solar power, targeted gene and drug delivery, solid-state lighting and advances in biomedical imaging among them.
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Feb 02, 2009 |
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Psychologists report that a gender gap in spatial skills starts in infancy
(PhysOrg.com) -- Men tend to perform better than women at tasks that require rotating an object mentally, studies have indicated. Now, developmental psychologists at Pitzer College and UCLA have discovered ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 09, 2008 |
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Gold catalysts are 'hot' because their electrons are heavy, chemist proposes
A University of California, Berkeley, chemist has found a mother lode of new and unique gold-catalyzed reactions by applying Einstein's theory of relativity to the rare and precious metal.
Mar 23, 2007 |
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