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UCLA study shows brain's ability to reorganise

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Visually impaired people appear to be fearless, navigating busy sidewalks and crosswalks, safely finding their way using nothing more than a cane as a guide. The reason they can do...

Study Shows Brain's Ability to Reorganize

13 years ago from Newswise - Scinews

Scientists from the UCLA Department of Neurology have confirmed that blindness causes structural changes in the brain, indicating that the brain may reorganize itself functionally in order to adapt to...

3 Decades Later, Nintendo's Mario Endures

13 years ago from CBSNews - Science

As Video Games Come and Go, Pot-bellied Italian Plumber Remains a Popular Character

Looking for a good science book? This one isn't it!

13 years ago from Science Blog

The latest Science Shelf Newsletter is now online. It includes plenty of interesting titles, plus one I review negatively.

Academic Researchers’ Conflicts of Interest Go Unreported

13 years ago from NY Times Health

A report finds that universities often do not disclose faculty members’ conflicts of interest in government-financed studies.

Easing needle anxiety

13 years ago from Science Daily

Needle! For some people, the word -- almost as much as the sight of one sliding into skin -- is enough for people to cringe, cry, even swoon if they're...

Study raises concerns about outdoor second-hand smoke

13 years ago from Science Daily

Indoor smoking bans have forced smokers at bars and restaurants onto outdoor patios, but a new study suggests that these outdoor smoking areas might be creating a new health hazard.

Cognitive dysfunction reversed in mouse model of Down syndrome

13 years ago from Science Daily

At birth, children with Down syndrome aren't developmentally delayed. But as they age, these kids fall behind. Memory deficits inherent in Down syndrome hinder learning, making it hard for the...

High-tech holiday gift ideas for $50 and $100

13 years ago from Physorg

Picking a Christmas gift for the nerd in your life is never easy. In the holiday stampede, it's all too easy to end up with an outdated gadget or obsolete...

Net erupts over video of fish eaten alive

13 years ago from CBC: Technology & Science

An internet video purportedly shot in an unidentified Chinese restaurant is firing up animal rights activists for showing patrons eating a live fish.

Switching cell phones takes emotional toll

13 years ago from Physorg

She's gone. We were the best of friends, constant companions -- literally, because I carried her day and night in the left-front pocket of my jeans. For five years we...

Bosses exaggerate women's family-work conflict

13 years ago from Physorg

(PhysOrg.com) -- Decades into the era of two-earner households, the virtues of family-friendly policies are all but universally assumed in the corporate world. But now new research suggests serious potential...

Teen sexual activity and gambling associated with taking nonprescribed medications to get high

13 years ago from Physorg

(PhysOrg.com) -- Taking nonprescribed medication has become an emerging problem, especially among teens. When using these substances to get high, students are more likely to engage in bad behaviors than...

Activists, UN call attention to reproductive health

13 years ago from CBC: Health

Activists challenged Stephen Harper to make women's reproductive health a priority issue at next year's G8 and G20 summits during a press conference Wednesday.

McGill anti-abortion student club suspended

13 years ago from CBC: Health

An anti-abortion club has had its campus rights suspended by McGill University's student body council.

IBM computer simulates cat’s cerebral cortex

13 years ago from MSNBC: Science

Scientists say they've made a breakthrough in their pursuit of computers that "think" like a living thing's brain — an effort that tests the limits of technology. ...

Hidden Risks Of Modular Classrooms

13 years ago from Physorg

Every school day, more than 5 million students in the United States attend lessons held in modular classrooms. With new carpeting and paint, metal roofs and noisy ventilation systems, they...

What's eating the breadwinners?

13 years ago from Science Blog

Control, independence, ambition, pressure, worry, guilt and resentment are all experienced by female breadwinners, according to Dr. Rebecca Meisenbach from the University of Missouri in Columbia, USA. Dr. Meisenbach explored...

Migration of key employees to competitors hinders organizational success

13 years ago from Science Blog

A study by researchers from the Spears School of Business at Oklahoma State University (OSU) explored the competitive advantage organizations gain when hiring key employees away from a competitor.

World view: Experts and democracy

13 years ago from News @ Nature

Specialist advice can be invaluable in shaping policy, but, argues Colin Macilwain, democracies need to keep a careful eye on the powers acquired by an unelected elite.

When good companies do bad things: Examining illegal corporate behavior

13 years ago from Physorg

The more prominent and financially successful a corporation becomes, the more likely it is to break the law, according to a new study led by a Michigan State University scholar...

Software knowledge unnecessarily lost

13 years ago from Science Daily

All too often the knowledge acquired by software architects is unnecessarily lost. Moreover, it is difficult to simply and quickly assess the quality of software. According to researchers these problems...

Introverts experience more health problems, study suggests

13 years ago from Science Daily

People who experience a lot of negative emotions and do not express these experience more health problems, according to new research. Researchers discovered that heart failure patients with a negative...

Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 friend Facebook

13 years ago from Physorg

(AP) -- Users of the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 video game consoles can now brag about their achievements on Facebook.

Charities watchdog releases Simon Singh libel case complaints

13 years ago from The Guardian - Science

The Charity Commission has handed the Guardian the complaints it received - and dismissed - over Sense about Science and the journalists' legal battleThis summer, Britain's charity watchdog received complaints about the pro-science...

Interview: Beyond the inorganic boundaries

13 years ago from Chemistry World

Ian Manners talks about polymerisations, interfaces, and living in Wales

Medical Schools Quizzed on Ghostwriting

13 years ago from NY Times Health

Senator Charles E. Grassley asked universities what they are doing about professors who put their names on others’ articles, and how that is different from plagiarism.

Cyber laws must punish individuals not society: specialist

13 years ago from Physorg

Laws regulating cybercrimes must target individuals and not society as a whole, an IT specialist told an Internet governance forum at the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh on Tuesday.