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Cognitive rehab helps people with acquired brain injury

Cognitive rehabilitation after a serious brain injury or stroke can help the mind in much the same way that physical therapy helps the body, according to a new meta-analysis. Because the data suggest that treatment may work ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jan 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1




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Risks of boomerangs a reality in world of cyberwar

(AP) — The Obama administration is warning American businesses about an unusually potent computer virus that infected Iran's oil industry even as suspicions persist that the United States is responsible ...

Technology / Internet

created Jun 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 3

Venus takes center stage in upcoming rare sky show

It's a spectacle that won't repeat for another century — the sight of Venus slowly inching across the face of the sun.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jun 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New twist on 1930s technology may become a 21st century weapon against global warming

Far from being a pipe dream years away from reality, practical technology for capturing carbon dioxide — the main greenhouse gas — from smokestacks is aiming for deployment at coal-fired electric power generating ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 26, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 5

Next-gen weather satellites to improve tornado warnings

When you read the following paragraph, consider the following: Tornado season hasn't even started yet.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Deadly bird parasite evolves at exceptionally fast rate

A new study of a devastating bird disease that spread from poultry to house finches in the mid-1990s reveals that the bacteria responsible for the disease evolves at an exceptionally fast rate. What's more, ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Parents blame child sex abuse victims more if perpetrator is another youth, research shows

Parents are much more likely to blame and doubt their children when their child has been sexually abused by another adolescent instead of an adult, according to new research from the Crimes against Children Research Center ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (3) | comments 2

Researchers uncover a mechanism to explain dune field patterns

In a study of the harsh but beautiful White Sands National Monument in New Mexico, University of Pennsylvania researchers have uncovered a unifying mechanism to explain dune patterns. The new work represents a contribution ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Global winds could explain record rains, tornadoes

Two talks at a scientific conference this week will propose a common root for an enormous deluge in western Tennessee in May 2010, and a historic outbreak of tornadoes centered on Alabama in April 2011.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 05, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Kudzu-eating beetle: Good news or bad?

Kudzu, a green leafy vine native to China and Japan brought to the United States in the 19th century, has long been cursed by farmers and timber producers for the property and crop damage it can cause.

Biology / Ecology

created Sep 27, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Too wacky? Moving water from flood to drought

(AP) -- As the soggy East tries to dry out from flooding and Texas prays for rain that doesn't come, you might ask: Isn't there some way to ship all that water from here to there?

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 09, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 8


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