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Children With Autism Need To Be Taught In Smaller Groups, Experts Argue
Since the 1970s, there has been much debate surrounding the fact that individuals with autism have difficulty in understanding speech in situations where there is background speech or noise. Neuroscientists...
Overweight Kids Experience More Loneliness, Anxiety
As childhood obesity rates continue to increase, experts agree that more information is needed about the implications of being overweight as a step toward reversing current trends. A new study...
Doubts Cast On Credibility Of Some Published Clinical Trials
Randomized controlled trials are considered the "gold standard" research method for assessing new medical treatments. But new research shows that the design of a remarkable 93 percent of 2235 so-called...
The Problem With Self-help Books: The Negative Side To Positive Self-statements
In times of doubt and uncertainty, many Americans turn to self-help books in search of encouragement, guidance and self-affirmation. The positive self-statements suggested in these books, such as "I am...
Second Life Data Offers Window Into How Trends Spread
Do friends wear the same style of shoe or see the same movies because they have similar tastes, which is why they became friends in the first place? Or once...
Poor health among indigenous peoples a question of cultural loss as well as poverty
The health problems of Indigenous peoples around the world are intimately tied to a number of unique factors, such as colonisation, globalisation, migration, and loss of land, language and culture....
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July 4th Facts: Fireworks, Founding Fathers, and More
From artillery shows to hot dog eating, learn how Americans have celebrated the Fourth of July over the centuries.
Clownfish provide clues to animal conflicts
(PhysOrg.com) -- Animal societies are hotbeds of conflict and cooperation, with creatures helping each other one moment and fighting the next. Biologist Andrew Zink has developed a new theoretical framework...
Doctors take N.B. government to court over fee freeze
The New Brunswick Medical Society has taken its fight against the provincial government's two-year fee freeze to the next level by launching its promised court action.
Deadly Cable Crossing Is Only Way Out
Despite falling nearly ten stories from it and losing a child in 2008, the Combatas—like the other seven families of a Bolivian village—continue using a crucial river-spanning cable. Video.
What prompts young people to take positive action to promote sustainable development?
A major change in education is the shift towards sustainable development. The United Nations has declared 2005-2014 as the decade for integrating sustainable development into all aspects of education and...
Sexist jokes favour the mental mechanisms that justify violence against women
Sexist jokes (and all the variants of this kind of humour) favour the mental mechanisms which urge to violence and battering against women in individuals with macho attitudes. Those are...
Fredericton fire exposes 911 cellphone problem
A Fredericton-area woman is fortunate that fire crews were able to locate her burning home on Wednesday after she passed out while trying to give her address over a cellular...
Making A Bigger Splash In The Gene Pool, And How Delaying Reproduction Can Help
We humans have a strong urge to reproduce, but if the environment steers us into putting off having children, we may be rewarded with both longer life and a bigger...
Darwin complicit in manipulating photos
When Darwin came to publish The Expression of the Emotions in 1872, he employed images made by five photographers to illustrate the wide variation in human facial expressions. A new...
Physics education improves when students make their own computer models
A current trend in secondary science education is for students to learn by discovering for themselves how things work. Computer modelling is a teaching method that fits in nicely with...
Where were you when the Eagle landed?
John Vidal remembers making giant leaps for mankind on a beach in Gibraltar I was 19, doing a summer job washing cars and delivering beer in Gibraltar. We had no money and had...
Promises of immortality
An English scientist is on a one-man mission to eliminate mortality – but would you like to live in a society without death?
In Pursuit Of A Happiness Gene
The pursuit of happiness characterizes the human condition. But for those suffering from stress, money trouble or chronic illness, a positive outlook on life can be difficult to find. Now,...
Obama sees link between stem-cell work, 'scientific integrity'
President Obama will sign an executive order Monday lifting limits on human embryonic stem cell research and will direct federal agencies to "restore scientific integrity" to decision-making, White House aides...
Peer behaviour, not communication overload, determines mobile device use in meetings
Organisational norms and social cues, not communication overload, are the strongest predictors of whether individuals use their laptops or smart phones to electronically multitask during a meeting, according to researchers...
2-year-olds possess grammatical insights
Brain responses suggest that toddlers already know fundamental rules for using nouns and verbs
Is Twitter the news outlet for the 21st century?
(AP) -- Cassy Hayes and Jasmine Coleman were among the first fans to arrive outside the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles where Michael Jackson was brought...
Gene variants linked to higher schizophrenia risk
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A handful of typos in a mysterious region of the human genetic code are connected to a slightly higher risk of schizophrenia, new...
Review: New guide gives Twitterific advice
(AP) -- Sometimes Twitter can make newcomers feel like twits because the online messaging service isn't as simple as it sounds.
China Web controversy highlights public role
(AP) -- Beijing's retreat on its latest Internet-censorship effort highlights the rise of China's increasingly tech-savvy, vocal public as a factor in the authoritarian government's decisions.
Subliminal Messages Motivate People To Actually Do Things They Already Wanted To Do
How is it possible that you were not planning on going shopping, but that you still end up going and even return home with four new shirts? Apparently you really...