UH researchers win top prize for research with humanitarian applications (EurekAlert!)
( University of Houston ) Understanding how microbes govern human and environmental health, two University of Houston researchers — Yuriy Fofanov and Lennart Johnsson — understand that what we don’t see often carries big-picture implications. They’ve garnered international recognition for applying such vision while creating technologies to help monitor the sizes and genomic diversity of …
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Humans have in-built ability to do maths: Study (Express India)
A new study has revealed that humans have an in-built ability to do mathematics even if they don’t have the language to express it.
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Calculators okay in math class, if students know the facts first (EurekAlert!)
( Vanderbilt University ) Calculators are useful tools in elementary mathematics classes, if students already have some basic skills, new research has found. The findings shed light on the debate about whether and when calculators should be used in the classroom.
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Brain Serotonin System Controls Maternal Behavior (Medical News Today)
New research from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine demonstrates the importance of brain serotonin for offspring survival. The study, “Serotonergic Transcriptional Programming Determines Maternal Behavior and Offspring Survival,” appears in the September 2008 issue of Nature Neuroscience.
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