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New Looks At How Learning Works
Scientists in fields like psychology, neuroscience, robotics and education are beginning to explore the idea of forming a new discipline that blends all those related bodies of knowledge into a focused study of how children learn. New research based on that model, that looks at issues like dyslexia, can now predict that babies are prone to the...
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Where Will Your Green Thumbs Take You Today?
Baby botanists get ready, get set, get digging. The Young Scientists Club has a new spring kit for little kids to get their thumbs - and the rest of their fingers - dirty. The Science on a Garden Adventure set is stocked with a small plastic terrarium, peat pellets and seeds for spinach, wheat, marigold and zinnias - plus all they need to pu...
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They Say: Breastmilk Fights Respiratory Viruses Better In Girls
Science gets particularly exciting when it turns up things no one was expecting. Researcher Fernando Polack, working in Buenos Aires investigating how much protection breastmilk provides for very-low-birthweight babies against the wicked metapneumovirus (no vaccine yet developed), was surprised to find stark gender differences in his results: Gi...
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Ringtone Increases Breast Size
A researcher in Japan thinks he may have found a way to give women bigger boobs without invasive surgery or weight gain. They just have to download a very specifically engineered ringtone to their mobile and let 20 to 40 calls per day work their magic. What sort of sound could possibly perk up and pop out your sagging girls? A baby's cry, nat...
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Babble Wrap: Obama Lifts Bush’s Strict Limits On Stem Cell Research
Obama Lifts Bush's Strict Limits On Stem Cell Research Pledging that his administration will “make scientific decisions based on facts, not ideology,” President Obama on Monday lifted the Bush administration’s strict limits on human embryonic stem cell research. NY Times Keep Kids At School Longer For Core Skills The OECD has called on A...
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Ten “New” Species Of Amphibians Found In Columbia
When my kids and I make our regular jaunt to the aquarium, my four-year old's favourite stop is the frogs. We can spend a good ten minutes (those of you with preschoolers and toddlers know how long that is!) watching the big poison-arrow frog display looking for the still, quiet creatures until someone spots a bright spot in the otherwise brown-fil...
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A Guide To D.I.Y Chemistry Sets
It's a fact of life that nothing is ever as good as it was when you were a kid. Take chemistry sets. Back in the 1940s (OK, older than me), they included sodium cyanide in their kits. You know, the stuff of suicide capsules. Today, you don't even get chemicals that go bang. Boring! Make zine has put together a great set of photos of old chemist...
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Should Dads Co-sleep?
Can dads sleep safely with their infants, or should that be left to mums and their "natural protective instincts"? The photo I posted with my report on the British study saying cosleeping doesn't increase risk of SIDS (reposted here) generated some passionate back and forth on this topic in the comments on babble.com. On the one...
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Critical Health Information or Designer Babies? Where Will New Genetic Testing Lead?
As prenatal DNA tests become better and more widely available many worry that their benefits are outweighed by their dangers. A lengthy article in the Washington Post takes up this discussion in some depth. It seems that while new and better testing at the level of DNA is a great tool to help women carrying pregnancies in risky circumst...
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