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- Better chow yields more milk: A more nutritious form of corn for dairy cows boosts farm profits, teen investigator finds
- Fuzzy future: Kids may suffer impaired vision from spending too little time outdoors, studies suggest
- Building with moon rocks: Working on the moon with lunar soil and grit could prove easier, more efficient and less costly than using earthly materials
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- Daily reports from Science News staff from the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting.
- The first long-term study of its kind finds that bipolar disorder identified in children often persists into young adulthood and involves frequent, intense swings between manic euphoria and depression.
- The family-shattering effects of a mother’s depression can prompt the same mood disorder in her children, independent of any genetic risk.
- One-year olds can translate personal experience into knowledge about others
- A common gene variation in men is linked to marital crises and less bonding in a study of more than 500 long-term couples.
- Treatments shown to diminish psychological problems in traumatized youngsters often don’t get used, an exhaustive research review concludes.
- A measure of unconscious attitudes predicts the opinions that undecided people eventually reach on a controversial issue.
- Some magpies recognize themselves in mirrors, indicating that a basic form of self-recognition evolved in one family of birds.
- In new studies, toddlers display dramatic advances in object recognition that may underlie verbal and symbolic achievements.
- Feeling happy may lessen children’s ability to perform tasks that require attention to detail, a new study suggests.
- Scientists find the role of dopamine varies from one end of a brain region to another.
- For preschool boys, being outnumbered by girls at school could be worth the cooties.
- Indian survivors of the devastating Asian tsunami employed spiritual and community coping strategies to regain emotional balance
- Where you cast your ballot can affect how you cast your ballot.
- Boys who attend preschool classes with a majority of girls do better developmentally than other boys.
- A new study shows that playful 2-year-old chimpanzees may be particularly vulnerable to infectious diseases — some caught from humans.
- New studies indicate that abused and neglected kids benefit from living with relatives and from high-quality foster care services.
- In a step toward someday making brain-controlled prosthetic arms for people, scientists have trained monkeys to control a robotic arm with their thoughts. Click on the image to read the story and see the video.
- Cigarette smokers who know one another tend to kick the habit all at once, highlighting the importance of social forces in smoking-cessation treatment.
- Former child soldiers in Africa often adjust well to community life if they receive group rehabilitation and community acceptance, studies indicate
- People with high-functioning autism respond to others' pain, two studies show.
- Boys with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder who take prescribed stimulant medication don't become more likely to abuse drugs than boys who don't receive the medication.
- Individual-specific DNA deletions and duplications, many located in genes involved in brain development, occur in an unusually large percentage of people with schizophrenia.
- Cell phone data shows that people's daily roaming follows statistical patterns also seen in predators.
- Researchers are beginning to identify neural components of insightful problem solving, though no scientific consensus exists on how the brain mediates "light-bulb" or "Aha!" moments.
- An fMRI scan of the brain can tell what photograph a subject is looking at.
- Democratic societies with market economies promote a moral ethic of cooperating with strangers who demand mutual sacrifices in joint ventures.
- Accomplished jazz pianists are able to improvise musical passages thanks in part to a set of reactions at the front of the brain that free self-expression from conscious monitoring and self-censorship.
- A new analysis of FDA data concludes that placebo pills generally offer almost as much symptom relief to depressed patients as antidepressant medications do, raising questions about physicians' antidepressant-prescription practices.
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