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IQ can change noticeably during adolescence, for better or worse
It is generally assumed that everyone has a stable IQ (intelligence quotient) score, thereby making it a standard measure of intelligence for teenagers everywhere.
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Study finds black holes may kill stars
A U. Arizona professor’s co-authored study found evidence that black holes are ripping apart and killing stars. On the rare event that a star gets too close to a black hole, gravity will pull the star unevenly on one of its sides.
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Breast cancer drug likely to be disapproved by FDA
When clinical trials suggest an expensive cancer drug is ineffective but individual cases highlight its benefits, the methods for evaluating clinical research come into question.
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‘Hooking up’ may be exaggerated
The term “hooking up” is often used among college students. But the phrase is used more than the actual number of “hook ups,” according to a recent study. “Hookups” is a term used when referring to intimate encounters outside of a dating relationship, according to a study by U.
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Women more likely than men to get hurt in car crashes
U. Virginia researchers found that women are 47 percent more likely to sustain injuries in car crashes than men in a study to be published in the December print edition of the American Journal of Public Health.
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Research finds that intestines grow in response to food
U. California-Berkeley research shows a more dynamic role for stem cells and insulin in the intestine, a finding that could have implications for diabetes treatment. The research, which was published in the journal Cell on Oct.
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Prototype for $1K house has final price tag of $6K
What can you build for $1,000? Last summer, MIT Professor Yung Ho Chang in the Department of Architecture and Ying chee Chui — then a graduate student in the department — designed and built a house in Sichuan, China using local materials for that much.
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Study: More soda, more violence
Teenagers who consume large amounts of soda are more likely to display violent tendencies, according to a study recently conducted by David Hemenway, a professor at the Harvard School of Public Health. Hemenway, along with his co-author, U. Vermont Economics Professor Sara J.
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OCD far more severe than proverbial ‘neat freak’
Betty Ray knew that her son Nathaniel preferred to have his Lego block creations in a precise formation on his bookshelf. When she entered her 7-year-old son's room to clean, she took a mental photograph of where he had placed them in relation to one another.