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Brooke Welsford is the 2,000th baby to volunteer to help the Plymouth BabyLab with their research into how children pick up words and start to communicate. Since the age of five months she has been helping researchers at the University of Plymouth BabyLab to study how children’s language skills develop.

AUSTIN, Texas — Contrary to popular opinion, Facebook is making us more social, albeit in ways unique to the digital age, according to new research at The University of Texas at Austin.

Research has highlighted the benefits of Gaelic medium education ( GME ) for school pupils. The findings show that pupils undertaking GME perform better than their English-medium peers in English reading.

A flagship programme introduced by the previous Government across the UK to improve the social and emotional wellbeing of secondary school pupils is ineffective, a study has suggested.

Dr Tom Buckley , senior lecturer and cardiovascular researcher at Sydney Nursing School , has been given the honour of participating in the American Heart Association's distinguished International Lunch Forum as part of its Scientific Sessions 2010 in Chicago from 13 to 17 November.

University research reveals deaf adults see better than hearing people Adults born deaf react more quickly to objects at the edge of their visual field than hearing people, according to groundbreaking new research by the University of Sheffield. The study, which was funded by the Royal National Institute for Deaf People (RNID), has, for the first time ever, seen scientists test how the full field of peripheral vision develops in deaf people from childhood to adulthood.

PA303/10 Film director Ken Loach has officially opened a new research lab which explores pioneering ways of improving communication between parents and children with hearing difficulties.

A report released today by the Universities of Leeds and Manchester shows that parents are the most important influence on young children's (aged 5 to 12) attitudes towards alcohol and that they

Children who learn about alcohol in the home from an early age receive positive messages about drinking in moderation, according to new research.

The 2011 Year Planner is now available for download. Previously known as the Reporter calendar, the planner gives details of dates for terms and teaching starting and stopping, exams and degree ceremonies, plus when the University will be closed.

People who engage in regular physical activity outside work - however intense - are less likely to have symptoms of depression, according to new research published in the November issue of the British Journal of Psychiatry .

The research by Professor Gianni De Fraja and Tania Oliveira of the Economics Department at the University of Leicester and Luisa Zanchi of Leeds University Business School is published in the latest issue of the MIT based Review of Economics and Statistics.

ANN ARBOR, Mich.—When parents set up long-term savings accounts for college, business start-ups or home ownership, kids feel more financially and emotionally secure, new research shows. The studies show the importance of families using child development accounts (CDA) as one measure to shift from an overreliance on credit and create a foundation for asset building.

Unless something changes, we are facing a future with "no money left for defense, no money for education, no money for research.

Arts 14 Oct 10 Submissions from the public have helped put together the world's largest online archive of material concerning the Anglo-Saxons, Oxford University academics have said.

Learning from competitors is a critically important form of learning for animals and humans. A new study has used brain imaging to reveal how people and animals learn from failure and success.

07 Oct 2010 A successful parenting programme that has previously helped children with behavioural problems is being expanded to see if it can also help improve the lives of youngsters with asthma.