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Want Someone Who Listens? Get A Baby

Want Someone Who Listens? Get A Baby

Dec 11 2011 | comment(s)

Babies love to communicate and they're great listeners, even early on.  

New research shows that during the first year of life, when babies spend so much time listening to language, they're actually tracking word patterns that will support their process of word- learning that occurs between the ages of about 18 months and two years.
Females Choose To Hang Out With Sexier Friends?

Females Choose To Hang Out With Sexier Friends?

Dec 08 2011 | comment(s)

A common belief among club-going men is that women choose less attractive friends to make themselves look better. See this clip from that important anthropological documentary "Hall Pass" for context:



Not so, says a group of scientists who have observed the opposite strategy in the Trinidadian guppy, a species of small freshwater fish  - instead, the uglier friends are choosing the prettier females to avoid unwanted male attention. 
Cellebrite Doesn't Like WikiLeaks 'Spy Files' Claims

Cellebrite Doesn't Like WikiLeaks 'Spy Files' Claims

Dec 07 2011 | comment(s)

Cellebrite, a developer and manufacturer of mobile forensic solutions, has rejected claims in the recent WikiLeaks "Spy Files" exposé that it is among companies that develop and supply equipment to governments and dictators "to spy on their citizens via mobile devices and computers." 

 The WikiLeaks page referring to Cellebrite states, "The Spy Files (open) thousands of pages and other materials exposing the global mass surveillance industry."

Spinops Sternbergorum - Horned Dinosaur Discovery 100 Years In The Making

Spinops Sternbergorum - Horned Dinosaur Discovery 100 Years In The Making

Dec 06 2011 | comment(s)

A new species of horned dinosaur, Spinops sternbergorum, was announced today by an international team of scientists nearly 100 years after the initial discovery of the fossil.
Habitable Zone - G5 Star Planet Kepler 22b Is A Warm Super-Earth

Habitable Zone - G5 Star Planet Kepler 22b Is A Warm Super-Earth

Dec 05 2011 | comment(s)

Queue the 'life on other planets' media buzz.  NASA's Kepler Mission has discovered the first super-Earth orbiting in the habitable zone of a star similar to our Sun.
Muscle Fatigue May Be In Your Head

Muscle Fatigue May Be In Your Head

Dec 05 2011 | comment(s)

Research on muscle fatigue has largely been confined to the muscle itself. That makes sense, where there is burn, there is fire.  But motivation and will power turns out to have a greater impact on muscle fatigue than previously believed, according to a joint research project between the University of Zurich and ETH Zurich has shifted the focus to brain research.

The researchers discovered neuronal processes for the first time that are responsible for reducing muscle activity during muscle-fatiguing exercise. The third and final part of this series of experiments, which was conducted by Lea Hilty as part of her doctoral thesis at the University of Zurich, has now been published in the European Journal of Neuroscience.