A baby's brain has a lot of work to do, growing more neurons and connections. Later, a growing child's brain begins to pare down these connections until it develops into the streamlined brain of an adult.
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When it comes to environmental impacts, no nation is an island. A recent study from the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison finds that up to 15 percent of U.S. air pollution comes ...
Environment
Dec 13, 2007
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While most Americans are aware that they increase carbon dioxide in the atmosphere by burning fossil fuel to drive their cars and heat their homes, they tend to think less about the greenhouse impacts of other daily activities.
Environment
Dec 13, 2007
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NEC have developed a new Silica-Carbon Composite (SCC) film capable of blocking Cu-atom diffusion into the dielectric films of LSI interconnects. Use of the SCC film establishes an ultimate full-low-k (FLK) Cu interconnect ...
Electronics & Semiconductors
Dec 13, 2007
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Some 400 million years ago, on a lifeless lakeshore lapped by waves, floating algae learned to survive in the open air and launched an invasion that transformed the Earth into a green paradise.
Dec 13, 2007
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A research team at Penn State has developed a novel method for attaching small molecules, such as neurotransmitters, to surfaces, which then are used to capture large biomolecules. By varying the identity and spacing of the ...
Dec 13, 2007
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Carbon emissions from human activities are not just heating up the globe, they are changing the ocean’s chemistry. This could soon be fatal to coral reefs, which are havens for marine biodiversity and underpin the economies ...
Environment
Dec 13, 2007
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Fresh research into the phenomenon of transvestism in literature will attempt to unlock the mysteries of cross-gender writing.
Other
Dec 13, 2007
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New research on blind subjects has bolstered evidence that the human eye has two separate light-sensing systems — one that perceives the familiar visual signals that allow us to see and a second, separate system that tells ...
Dec 13, 2007
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Panasonic today announced the development of a Gallium Nitride (GaN) power transistor with the ultra high breakdown voltage over 10000V. This breakdown voltage is more than 5 times higher than previously reported highest ...
Hardware
Dec 13, 2007
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