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Professor finds uses for coconut waste
Could a coconut car be coming to a dealership near you? If Walter Bradley’s business plan works out, it very well might. Bradley, an engineering professor at Baylor U.
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Study links roommates, minimized weight gain
There may be one more way for young women to avoid dreaded college weight gain — and without any effort on their part. Contrary to conventional wisdom, having an overweight college roommate may lead to less than average weight gain and more conscious health decisions. A new study by U.
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Scientists develop real-life ‘Iron Man’ suit
A new exoskeleton, coined by some as a real-life "Iron Man," was unveiled at U. Utah last week. The exoskeleton is the latest robotic development that started at the school under Stephen Jacobsen, a professor in mechanical engineering, who started Sarcos in the early 1980s, said Fraser Smith, vice...
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Data suggests that college students are getting lazy
A study by the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, entitled “Leisure College, USA” makes the claim that college students studied about 14 hours a week in 2003 in comparison to the 24 hours a week students studied in 1961.
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Research explores video games, violence
Research shows that people who play video games are more likely to carry out their aggression. A new study led by Dr. Daniel Shafer, an assistant professor of communication studies at Baylor U., aims to examine the effects video games have on people's aggression levels.
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Study: Magnetic stimulation can influence decision-making
Left or right? The findings of U. California-Berkeley researchers have lent insight into the neural process that controls which hand is chosen to complete everyday tasks, challenging previous assumptions about how motor-related decisions are made.
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Study: News fuels rumors about Obama being Muslim
In a conversation during the 2008 presidential campaign, one of Brian Weeks’ friends said that President Barack Obama was a Muslim. Weeks’ friend said that he’d learned about it on television. "Everyone else in the group kind of jumped on this person, saying they were crazy," Weeks said.
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Researchers use fruit flies, rats to study link between schizophrenia, hallucinogens
For Charles Nichols, a typical day at work involves a hefty dose of hallucinogens, thousands of flies and frozen rat brains. Nichols and his father are tag-team researchers exploring the effects of mind-bending drugs on schizophrenia.
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Physicist lectures on particle accelerator, revolutions in fundamental physics
The Large Hadron Collider, located at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, is the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator, according to CERN's official website. Last Friday, David Gross, director and holder of the Frederick W.