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  1. Brain training aids kids with dyslexia

    Preliminary brain-imaging evidence indicates that after completing an intensive reading-remediation program, children with dyslexia not only read better but also exhibit signs of increased activity in key brain areas as they read.

    By Bruce Bower
  2. Math

    Goldbach’s Prime Pairs

    Like the elements in chemistry, prime numbers serve as building blocks in the mathematics of whole numbers. Evenly divisible only by themselves and one, primes are a rich source of speculative ideas that mathematicians often find simple to state but difficult to prove. The Goldbach conjecture is a prime example of such a conundrum. In […]

    By Ivars Peterson

  3. 19229

    The hominid dating puzzle is continually being pieced together due to interdisciplinary work between anthropologists and geologists.