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Hearing Loss

May 1, 2001

Why is your hearing dull or muffled after a loud concert? (because there's some damage after …

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Calorie Burning

April 26, 2001

How are daily calorie requirements calculated? (Using a formula or by measuring metabolic rate)

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Learning English

April 4, 2001

Computerized speech can teach Japanese adults to distinguish Ôr' and Ôl'

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Obesity and Dopamine

March 26, 2001

How overeating in obesity may be caused by insensitive dopamine receptors in the brain

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False Memories

March 13, 2001

People may not be able to pick out what memories are real and which are imagined, but the brain …

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Understanding Ritalin

March 7, 2001
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Sponge Drug

February 14, 2001

A compound from a sea sponge that kills cancer cells has been synthesized in the lab for the first …

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Musical Tastes

February 9, 2001

People with frontotemporal dementia can show unusual switches in musical taste.

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Itch Pathway

February 5, 2001

Scientists have found a specific pathway of nerves for itching from the spinal cord to the brain.

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Musical Illusion

January 15, 2001

How people perceive a musical illusion called the tritone paradox depends on the language they heard …

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