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• ADHD and texting found to significantly impair teenage driving
• How books can have a positive impact on a child's social struggles
• Competition changes how people view strangers online: On sites like eBay, strangers no longer seen as 'just like you'
• School lunch and TV time linked with childhood obesity
• Moderate exercise could be good for your tendons, research shows
• Cancer patients want more shared-decision making about their treatment

ADHD and texting found to significantly impair teenage driving Posted: 12 Aug 2013 02:02 PM PDT ADHD and texting both significantly impair driving performance among teenagers, according to a new study. Researchers used a driving simulator to test the driving performance of 16- and 17-year-old drivers; approximately half of the study's 61 participants had been diagnosed with ADHD, the other half had not.

How books can have a positive impact on a child's social struggles Posted: 12 Aug 2013 09:14 AM PDT New research explores the positive effects of reading as part of a parental intervention strategy for children struggling with social issues.

Competition changes how people view strangers online: On sites like eBay, strangers no longer seen as 'just like you' Posted: 12 Aug 2013 09:11 AM PDT An anonymous stranger you encounter on websites like Yelp or Amazon may seem to be just like you, and a potential friend. But a stranger on a site like eBay is a whole different story.

School lunch and TV time linked with childhood obesity Posted: 12 Aug 2013 07:30 AM PDT Among middle-school children, the behaviors most often linked with obesity are school lunch consumption and two hours or more of daily TV viewing.

Moderate exercise could be good for your tendons, research shows Posted: 07 Aug 2013 09:58 AM PDT Moderate exercise could be good for keeping your tendons healthy, according to new research. The onset of tendon disease has previously been associated with exercise. However, new research shows that doing moderate exercise could help guard against, and treat, the painful and often debilitating condition.

Cancer patients want more shared-decision making about their treatment Posted: 06 Aug 2013 05:35 PM PDT A new study of cancer patients indicates that certain patient groups have unmet needs for greater involvement in decisions about their treatment.

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ScienceDaily: Top Science News

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• Researchers optically levitate a glowing, nanoscale diamond
• Brain's flexible hub network helps humans adapt
• Inducing and augmenting labor may be associated with increased risk of autism
• Neandertals made the first specialized bone tools in Europe
• Electrical signatures of consciousness in the dying brain
• How 'teamwork' between egg and sperm works: Little-known protein identified in vertebrate fertilization process
• Scientists have found new evidence to show how early humans migrated into Europe
• Cosmology in the lab using laser-cooled ions

Researchers optically levitate a glowing, nanoscale diamond Posted: 12 Aug 2013 05:25 PM PDT Researchers have measured for the first time light emitted by photoluminescence from a nanodiamond levitating in free space.

Brain's flexible hub network helps humans adapt Posted: 12 Aug 2013 02:04 PM PDT New research offers compelling evidence that a well-connected core brain network based in the lateral prefrontal cortex and the posterior parietal cortex -- parts of the brain most changed evolutionarily since our common ancestor with chimpanzees -- contains "flexible hubs" that coordinate the brain's responses to novel cognitive challenges.

Inducing and augmenting labor may be associated with increased risk of autism Posted: 12 Aug 2013 01:59 PM PDT Pregnant women whose labors are induced or augmented may have an increased risk of bearing children with autism, especially if the baby is male, according to a large, retrospective analysis.

Neandertals made the first specialized bone tools in Europe Posted: 12 Aug 2013 12:42 PM PDT Modern humans replaced Neandertals in Europe about 40,000 years ago, but the Neandertals' capabilities are still greatly debated. Some argue that before they were replaced, Neandertals had cultural capabilities similar to modern humans, while others argue that these similarities only appear once modern humans came into contact with Neandertals.

Electrical signatures of consciousness in the dying brain Posted: 12 Aug 2013 12:35 PM PDT About 20 percent of cardiac arrest survivors report having a near death experience with visions and perceptions, but are the experiences real? A new study suggests the dying brain is capable of well-organized electrical activity during the early stages of clinical death. The study provides the first scientific framework for the near-death experience.

How 'teamwork' between egg and sperm works: Little-known protein identified in vertebrate fertilization process Posted: 12 Aug 2013 09:13 AM PDT Researchers have decoded a previously unknown molecular mechanism in the fertilization process of vertebrates. The team of scientists have identified a specific protein in frog egg extracts that the male basal bodies need, but that is produced only by the reproductive cells of the female. This "teamwork" between the egg and sperm is what makes embryo development possible.

Scientists have found new evidence to show how early humans migrated into Europe Posted: 12 Aug 2013 07:27 AM PDT Humans originated in Africa.  But what route did they take as they began to disperse around the world 60,000 years ago?  A professor has played a key role in finding the answer to one of the most fundamental questions in the history of humankind.

Cosmology in the lab using laser-cooled ions Posted: 12 Aug 2013 07:25 AM PDT Scientists would love to know which forces created our universe some 14 billion years ago. How could -- due to a breaking of symmetry -- matter, and thus stars and galaxies, be created from an originally symmetrical universe in which the same conditions prevailed everywhere shortly after the Big Bang? Now, the Big Bang is an experiment that cannot be repeated. But the principle of symmetry and its disturbance can definitely be investigated under controlled laboratory conditions.

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ScienceDaily: Top Technology News

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• Researchers optically levitate a glowing, nanoscale diamond
• New twist in the graphene story: Tiny twist in bilayer graphene may solve a mystery
• More realistic simulated cloth for more realistic video games and movies
• Microentrepreneurs may be an untapped market for product design
• New materials for bio-based hydrogen synthesis: Synthetic biology enables spontaneous protein activation
• Simulating flow from volcanoes and oil spills
• Cosmology in the lab using laser-cooled ions
• Efficient and robust: Why quantum transport can be close to optimal even in disordered molecular structures

Researchers optically levitate a glowing, nanoscale diamond Posted: 12 Aug 2013 05:25 PM PDT Researchers have measured for the first time light emitted by photoluminescence from a nanodiamond levitating in free space.

New twist in the graphene story: Tiny twist in bilayer graphene may solve a mystery Posted: 12 Aug 2013 12:51 PM PDT Researchers have discovered that in the making of bilayer graphene, a tiny structural twist arises that can lead to surprisingly strong changes in the material's electronic properties.

More realistic simulated cloth for more realistic video games and movies Posted: 12 Aug 2013 12:51 PM PDT Computer scientists have developed a new model to simulate with unprecedented accuracy on the computer the way cloth and light interact. The new model can be used in animated movies and in video games to make cloth look more realistic. Existing models are either too simplistic and produce unrealistic results; or too complex and costly for practical use.

Microentrepreneurs may be an untapped market for product design Posted: 12 Aug 2013 09:14 AM PDT Designing products for the developing world can be a hit-or-miss endeavor: While there may be a dire need for products addressing problems, such as access to clean water, sanitation and electricity, designing a product that consumers will actually buy is a complicated process. More often than not, such products -- even those that are distributed at no charge -- go unused due to poor quality, unreliability or differences in cultural expectations.

New materials for bio-based hydrogen synthesis: Synthetic biology enables spontaneous protein activation Posted: 12 Aug 2013 09:13 AM PDT Researchers have discovered an efficient process for hydrogen biocatalysis. They developed semi-synthetic hydrogenases, hydrogen-generating enzymes, by adding the protein's biological precursor to a chemically synthesized inactive iron complex. From these two components, the biological catalyst formed spontaneously in a test tube.

Simulating flow from volcanoes and oil spills Posted: 12 Aug 2013 09:11 AM PDT Some time around 37,000 BCE a massive volcano erupted in the Campanian region of Italy, blanketing much of Europe with ash, stunting plant growth and possibly dooming the Neanderthals. While our prehistoric relatives had no way to know the ash cloud was coming, a recent study provides a new tool that may have predicted what path volcanic debris would take.

Cosmology in the lab using laser-cooled ions Posted: 12 Aug 2013 07:25 AM PDT Scientists would love to know which forces created our universe some 14 billion years ago. How could -- due to a breaking of symmetry -- matter, and thus stars and galaxies, be created from an originally symmetrical universe in which the same conditions prevailed everywhere shortly after the Big Bang? Now, the Big Bang is an experiment that cannot be repeated. But the principle of symmetry and its disturbance can definitely be investigated under controlled laboratory conditions.

Efficient and robust: Why quantum transport can be close to optimal even in disordered molecular structures Posted: 09 Aug 2013 08:48 AM PDT Physicists show why quantum transport can be close to optimal even in disordered molecular structures.

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