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| 09/24/2008 Climb Every Mountain: Julia Velkovska (September 25, 2008)
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| Vanderbilt physicist Julia Velkovska takes her research and her passion for rock climbing to new heights.
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| 09/08/2008 New nano device detects immune system cell signaling (September 9, 2008)
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| Using a new device called a multi-trap nanophysiometer, scientists have detected previously unnoticed chemical signals that individual cells in the immune system use to communicate with each other over short distances.
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| 08/19/2008 Calculators okay in math class, if students already have basic skills (August 20, 2008)
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| Calculators are useful tools in elementary mathematics classes, if students already have some basic skills, new research has found. The findings shed light on the debate about whether and when calculators should be used in the classroom.
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| 08/14/2008 New insights into birth defect that causes brain malformation (August 15, 2008)
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| The discovery that HPE, one of the most common birth defects that affects brain formation, is caused by the interaction between mutations in two different genes may make it possible to predict the risk that this malformation will develop in individual pregnancies for the first time.
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| 07/21/2008 Protein on speed linked to ADHD (July 22, 2008)
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| Some individuals who suffer from ADHD have a variant gene that causes them to act as if they are continuously exposed to amphetamine....
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| 06/30/2008 'Mind's eye' influences visual perception (July 1, 2008)
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| Letting your imagination run away with you may actually influence how you see the world. New research from Vanderbilt University has found for the first time that mental imagery directly impacts our visual perception.
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| 06/17/2008 Newly formed identical twin stars reveal surprising differences (June 18, 2008)
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| Analysis of the youngest pair of identical twin stars yet discovered has revealed surprising differences in brightness, surface temperature and size, suggesting that one formed before the other.
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| 06/02/2008 Commitment: a story of life, love and research (June 3, 2008)
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| Biomedical engineers Duco and Anita Jansen are dedicated researchers and partners in life.
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| 05/07/2008 New evidence from earliest known human settlement in the Americas supports coastal migration theory (May 8, 2008)
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| New evidence from the Monte Verde archaeological site in southern Chile confirms its status as the earliest known human settlement in the Americas and supports the theory that a major early migration route started in Alaska and followed the Pacific Coast down to South America.
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| 04/24/2008 Linking the cochlea's curvature to the low-frequency hearing limit of many mammals (April 25, 2008)
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| A new study establishes a direct link between the cochlea's curvature and the low frequency hearing limit of more than a dozen different mammals.
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