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Faulty 'off-switch' stops children with ADHD from concentrating
Brain scans of children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have shown for the first time why people affected by the condition sometimes have difficulty in concentrating. The study, by experts at...
Opinion: Distance Education Helps More Students Study Science
Patrick Hessen writes about the current trends of online education, in particular on the science related fields.
Gesturing while talking helps change your thoughts
Sometimes it's almost impossible to talk without using your hands. These gestures seem to be important to how we think. They provide a visual clue to our thoughts and, a...
Children in formal child care have better language skills
Fewer children who attend regular formal centre- and family-based child care at 1.5 years and 3 years of age were late talkers compared with children who are looked after at...
Maternal depression adversely affects quality of life in children with epilepsy
A study by Canadian researchers examined the prevalence of maternal depression and its impact on children newly diagnosed with epilepsy. Prevalence of depression in mothers ranged from 30%-38% within the...
ICU communication study reveals complexities of family decision-making
While a much hailed communication intervention works for families making decisions for chronically ill loved ones in medical intensive care units, researchers found the intervention was less effective for surgical...
A new model to predict accurate outcomes for IVF
Couple-and treatment-specific factors can be used to provide infertile couples with an accurate assessment of the likelihood of having a successful outcome following in-vitro fertilisation (IVF). A new prediction model...
Well: Can You Be Addicted to Foods?
Could people with a predilection to abusing alcohol and drugs just as easily abuse food?
The way of the Droid is near
Noon: a crowded cafeteria. You drift past the salad bar, glumly eyeing the line at the pizza counter. But what's this rolling toward you? It's a little robot-vaguely reminiscent of...
Monkeys choose how to crack a nut
Wild capuchin monkeys carefully evaluate the best tools to use to crack a nut, footage reveals.
Perception of our heartbeat influences our body image
A new study suggests that the way we experience the internal state of our body may also influence how we perceive our body from the outside, as for example in...
Online IVF calculator will predict chances of fertility treatment success
Web resource based on five years of medical records aims to tell women their likelihood of giving birth with 99% accuracyWomen hoping to have a baby through fertility treatment can from today use...
More Than Meets the Mirror: Illusion Test Links Difficulty Sensing Internal Cues with Distorted Body-Image
With all of the New Year's diet ads claiming you can lose dozens of pounds in seemingly as many days, you probably are not alone if you looked...
Calgary airport Wi-Fi abuses privacy: traveller
A Calgarian who is a frequent air traveller wants to know why he should provide personal information to use Wi-Fi at the airport.
Peninsula Arts festival resounds with science
If unusual music festivals are your bag, then Plymouth may be your place next month. The Peninsula Arts contemporary music festival's Re-Sounding Science series includes a live duet between a...
Love: it's all the same to the brain
(PhysOrg.com) -- There are no differences between heterosexuals and homosexuals or between women and men in terms of the brain systems regulating romantic love, according to new UCL research published...
Walking Speed Predicts Life Expectancy of Older Adults
When an older friend or relative slows down, people take notice--and often start to worry. Although walking pace is a seemingly basic measure to make, it has been...
Stress can enhance ordinary, unrelated memories
Stress can enhance ordinary, unrelated memories, a team of neuroscientists has found in a study of laboratory rats. Their results, which appear in the journal PLoS Biology, may bolster our...
Something to shoot for
Basketball is not just for boys. Girls can run, sweat, yell, and shoot hoops just like boys — in some instances they’re even better. For Hayden Armstrong, a 6-year-old Cambridge resident, the Harvard-UMass...
Psychologists find skill in recognising faces peaks after age 30
Scientists have made the surprising discovery that our ability to recognise and remember faces peaks at age 30 to 34, about a decade later than most of our other mental...
The Political Football Projection
When I were a lad (ay!) my father suggested that map projections was something I ought to interest myself in. So I got hold of paper, ruler and pencil, drew...
Teen girls in most deprived areas 5 times as likely to be assaulted
Teen girls living in the most deprived areas are five times as likely to be assaulted as their affluent male and female peers, reveals research published online in Emergency Medicine...
Beautiful people convey personality traits better during first impressions
A new University of British Columbia study has found that people identify the personality traits of people who are physically attractive more accurately than others during short encounters...
Researchers: Pay more attention to epilepsy
Epilepsy, a common and serious neurologic disorder that affects millions of people, is not getting the public attention and funding for research it deserves, according to an editorial on a...
What makes a face look alive? Study says it's in the eyes
The face of a doll is clearly not human; the face of a human clearly is. Telling the difference allows us to pay attention to faces that belong to living...
One-child policy yields multiple woes
China recently marked the 30th anniversary of the launch of its one-child-per-couple policy. Intended to curtail the nations burgeoning population, it has produced a serious gender imbalance, a ballooning percentage...
Mistreatment in Chinese elders perceived as a pervasive problem
(PhysOrg.com) -- Mistreatment of older Chinese adults in the U.S. is perceived to be a pervasive, but underreported, problem, according to a study that used community focus groups composed of...
Depression linked to girls with early menstruation
Girls who begin menstruating at an early age are at greater risk of depressive symptoms during their adolescence, according to new research by academics from the University of Bristol and...