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Victims of childhood bullying more likely to be overweight as young adults
Children who are bullied in primary and secondary school are nearly twice as likely to be overweight at the age of 18 than non-bullied...
When fish come to school, kids get hooked on science
Students at Baltimore’s Thomas Jefferson Elementary Middle School observe and take notes on their zebrafish.Credit: David Schmelick and Deirdre Hammer/JHU
A program that brings live...
How lightning strikes can improve storm forecasts
Lightning is not only about public safety -- lightning strike data have recently been introduced into weather prediction, and a new UW study shows...
Pain sensors specialized for specific sensations
Many pain-sensing nerves in the body are thought to respond to all types of 'painful events', but new research reveals that in fact most...
Why are we ticklish?
Bottom left: the researcher tickling the belly of a rat. Bottom right: activity of trunk somatosensory cortex (thin vertical black lines) during belly tickling...
Infineon chip solves Rubik’s Cube in 637 milliseconds
Featuring an AURIX™ microcontroller, one of the world’s most powerful minicomputers, “Sub1 Reloaded” managed to solve a Rubik’s Cube within 637 milliseconds, the best...
Cracking the code for dormant bacteria
Four nucleotides, abbreviated A, C, G, and T, spell out DNA sequences that code for all of the proteins cells need. MIT researchers have...
Traumatic stress changes brains of boys, girls differently
Traumatic stress affects the brains of adolescent boys and girls differently, according to a new brain-scanning study from the Stanford University School of Medicine....
A hydrogen-rich, passive galaxy
A deep optical image of the gas-rich galaxy GASS 3505 which in at radio wavelengths shows a ring of neutral hydrogen gas, probably a...
Smartphone app for early autism detection being developed
From left to right, Wenyao Xu, University at Buffalo assistant professor of computer science and engineering, and undergraduate Kun Woo Cho, show a smartphone...
Skipping breakfast and not enough sleep can make children overweight
Children skipping breakfast and not having a regular bedtime or sufficient sleep all appear to be important factors in predicting whether a child will...
