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Baby lab reveals surprisingly early gift of gab
From the moment they’re born, babies are highly attuned to communicate and motivated to interact. And they’re great listeners.
New research from the University of Notre Dame shows that during the first year of life, when babies spend so mu…
Prestigious journal validates Asian carp research
The use of environmental DNA (eDNA) by scientists from the University of Notre Dame and The Nature Conservancy to detect invasive Asian carp in the Chicago-area waterway has been validated in Conservation Letters, a new flagship peer-reviewed journa…
New study examines immunity in emerging species of a major mosquito carrer of malaria
In notable back-to-back papers appearing in the prestigioous journal Science in October, teams of researchers, one led by Nora Besansky, a professor of biological sciences and a member of the Eck Institute for Global Health at the University of Not…
Getting lost in buildings: Architecture can bias your cognitive map
Some people always know which way is north and how to get out of a building. Others can live in an apartment for years without knowing which side faces the street. Differences among people that include spatial skills, experience, and preferred strat…
Sleep makes your memories stronger
As humans, we spend about a third of our lives asleep. So there must be a point to it, right? Scientists have found that sleep helps consolidate memories, fixing them in the brain so we can retrieve them later. Now, new research is showing that slee…
Notre Dame researcher helps discover ‘walking’ properties of bacteria
Talk about a walk on the wild side: University of Notre Dame researcher Joshua Shrout is co-author of a new paper that shows that bacteria are capable of “standing up” and moving while vertical.
Shrout, assistant professor of civil engineering an…
