Parents of children with intellectual disabilities have long been frustrated by IQ testing that tells them little to nothing about their children's long-term learning potential. Now, researchers have developed a new method which provides more accurate view of children's potential.

Theories suggest that we forget when information simply decays from our memory (when too much time has passed) or when we confuse an item with other items that we have previously encountered (also known as temporal confusability). Psychologists investigated the

Is obesity all in your head? New research suggests that genes that predispose people to obesity act in the brain and that perhaps some people are simply hardwired to overeat. A genetic study of more than 90,000 people has identified

More than five million people die every year from infectious diseases, despite the availability of numerous antibiotics and vaccines. The discovery of penicillin to treat bacterial infections, along with the development of vaccines for previously incurable virus diseases such as

A desire to rule the world may be a good thing if you're over 60 and worried about losing your mental faculties. A new study found that adults in their 60s and 70s can improve a number of cognitive functions

Touches of early Rocket from the Crypt and heavy garage rock, but even the blasts of punk rock morph into songs of three to five minutes in length with plenty of transitions. The vocals remind me of Rick Sims, Lux

James "Piccolo" Marsters has loaded up some new Dragonball movie images on his site. And after much fan angst about his coloring, Piccolo is sporting a lovely seafoam green!

While she's traded in the tight fitting rubber "Underworld" suit for an arctic parka, Kate still gets me hot and bothered! And even though this story takes place in Antarctica, just maybe there is a scene in the movie where

An online resource for equipment related to camping, fishing, and other outdoor pursuits, OutdoorsTime.com has a wide ranging inventory from camping apparel to hunting knives. The site has also launched OutdoorsTimeInfo.com, a blog relating to outdoor activities. (PRWeb Dec 14,

Even the ultra-rich are getting pinched by the global financial crisis.

A woman has been charged with biting a security officer who was trying to break up a crowd at a Long Island high school basketball game.

Fed up with the nocturnal work habits of its mayor, a California city council has approved a curfew limiting how late she can work at City Hall.

Twice a week, on average, in a nondescript building by the railroad tracks, a foreigner comes to die.

The secrecy capacity of relay channels with orthogonal components is studiedin the presence of an additional passive eavesdropper node. The relay anddestination receive signals from the source on two orthogonal channels;furthermore, the destination also receives transmissions from the relay on

We extend the notion of a star unfolding to be based on a simplequasigeodesic loop Q rather than on a point. This gives a new general method tounfold the surface of any convex polyhedron P to a simple, planar polygon:shortest

We present a novel polynomial time approximation scheme for two-strategyanonymous games, in which the players' utility functions, although potentiallydifferent, do not differentiate among the identities of the other players. Ouralgorithm computes an $eps$-approximate Nash equilibrium of an $n$-player2-strategy anonymous game

Space-time block codes from square complex orthogonal designs (SCOD) havebeen extensively studied and most of the existing SCODs contain large number ofzeros. The zeros in the designs result in high peak-to-average power ratio andalso impose a severe constraint on hardware

While closed timelike curves (CTCs) are not known to exist, studying theirconsequences has led to nontrivial insights in general relativity, quantuminformation, and other areas. In this paper we show that if CTCs existed, thenquantum computers would be no more powerful

We consider a multi-round auction setting motivated by pay-per-click auctionsfor Internet advertising. In each round the auctioneer selects an advertiserand shows her ad, which is then either clicked or not. An advertiser derivesvalue from clicks; the value of a click

Heterogeneous applications could be assimilated within the same wirelesssensor network with the aid of modern motes that have multiple sensor boards ona single radio board. Different types of data generated from such types ofmotes might have different transmission characteristics in