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A small stimulator placed in the outer ear can activate the vagus nerve using unnoticeable electrical pulses to stimulate one of the nerve’s nearby branches. New research by neuroscientists at the ...

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The research described here was supported by the National Science Foundation Science of Learning Center Program grant to the UW LIFE Center (P.K.K., PI: Grant No. SMA-0835854), the Ready Mind Project ...

A year ago, the kindergartners learning English in Tanya Gan Lim's class were thriving. Back then, she'd bring in props and pictures to help her students learn the language and sound out words. Then ...

In a ranch-style house in Town 'n Country, the Ruiz family converses over arroz con pollo in Spanish about the struggles of learning English. The Venezuelan-Colombian family is a blend of native ...

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