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Trapped Chilean Miners Face a Tough Psychological Ordeal
With months left underground, Chilean miners face a harrowing mental ordeal
Do Belly Blankets Protect Unborn Babies from Radiation?
A new product called Belly Armor claims to shield growing fetuses from radiation from mobile devices. But the question is, Is it necessary?
New Study: Young Children Surprisingly Perceptive
A new study suggests that young children possess a skill many adults assume they lack: they are able to judge when a human behavior is statistically probable versus when it is unusual.
Study of 9/11's Emotional Response Charts Anxiety, Anger
A new paper in Psychological Science has provided a fever chart of how the emotions of Americans as a whole rose and fell in the course of that singular day
Ocean Science: Monitoring Climate Change in Deep Water
A report from the Atlantic Explorer, from which the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences is trying to establish a data base for changes in the planet's oceans

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