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Study finds dogs learn about word boundaries as human infants do
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 31 (ANI): A new study combining EEG and fMRI by researchers from the Department of Ethology, Eotvos Lorand University (Hungary) has found that dogs extract words from continuous speech using similar computations and brain regions as humans do.
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Study finds ways to increase effectiveness of antibiotics
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Canberra [Australia], October 30 (ANI): A new study has found a way to make antibiotics more effective against antibiotic-resistant bacteria - also known as superbugs.
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Scientists discover twenty-four trillion pieces of microplastics in ocean
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Tokyo [Japan], October 28 (ANI): A team of oceanographers led by Kyushu University researchers has calibrated and processed data from expeditions to build a publicly available dataset for more accurately assessing the abundance of microplastics in the world's oceans.
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To baby brains, language is language, signed or spoken: Study
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Washington [US], October 27 (ANI): Parents of deaf babies are often encouraged to give them cochlear implant surgery to prevent cognitive delays. Researchers have shown that it's the early exposure to language, not sound, that helps with normal brain development.
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Researchers discover ways to increase effectiveness of antibiotics
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Canberra [Australia], October 27 (ANI): Researchers have found a way to make antibiotics more effective against antibiotic-resistant bacteria - also known as superbugs.
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Study finds clinically significant cataract linked to increased risk of va
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London [UK], October 26 (ANI): Research has suggested that clinically significant cataract is associated with an increased risk of death from vascular causes, such as stroke and heart attack.
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Study finds climate change lowers nutrition, increases toxicity at base of
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Washington [US], October 25 (ANI): According to research from Dartmouth College and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, climate change impacts on freshwater systems can lower nutrition and increase toxicity at the base of the food web.
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Researchers find possible treatment strategy for Meningitis without antibi
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Copenhagen [Denmark], October 19 (ANI): Despite widespread implementation of vaccines, bacterial meningitis is still associated with a high mortality rate and neurological consequences including hearing loss, focal neurological deficits and cognitive impairment, estimated to occur in close t
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Researchers find key protein linked to appetite, obesity
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Tokyo [Japan], October 18 (ANI): Researchers from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) have identified a protein that plays a key role in how the brain regulates appetite and metabolism.
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Radio signals from distant stars suggest hidden planets
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 17 (ANI): Scientists have discovered stars unexpectedly blasting out radio waves, possibly indicating the existence of hidden planets.
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Scientists explain why warm milk can make people sleepy
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Washington [US], October 16 (ANI): Research has found why drinking a glass of warm milk can make one sleepy.
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NASA, ULA launch Lucy mission to 'fossils' of planet formation
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Washington [US], October 16 (ANI): NASA's Lucy mission, the agency's first to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids, launched at 5:34 a.m. EDT Saturday on a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
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