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Take meals with your children for their good health

Take meals with your children for their good health | Science News | Scoop.it

Researchers have found that regular meals with family increase the children’s fruit and vegetable intake. 

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How Video Games Can Educate Children and Unite Families

How Video Games Can Educate Children and Unite Families | Science News | Scoop.it
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Researchers find additional evidence that families that eat together may be the healthiest

Researchers find additional evidence that families that eat together may be the healthiest | Science News | Scoop.it
Researchers at Rutgers recently evaluated results from 68 previously published scientific reports considering the association between family mealtime and children’s health.
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Family History of Alcoholism May Affect Adolescents’ Brains - Psych Central News

Family History of Alcoholism May Affect Adolescents’ Brains - Psych Central News | Science News | Scoop.it
A new study has found that the brains of adolescents with a family history of alcoholism respond differently while making risky decisions than the brains of...
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Those who stay together yawn together

You're more likely to respond to a yawn with another yawn when it comes from family member or a friend than from a stranger, says a study published Dec. 7 in the online journal PLoS ONE.
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Economic recession takes toll on family relationships, researcher says

Economic recession takes toll on family relationships, researcher says | Science News | Scoop.it
A majority of Americans rate their current financial situation as poor or fair, and nearly half of Americans say they have encountered financial problems in the past year, according to the Pew Research Center.
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Children are kinder when Grandma and Grandpa are involved in their lives

Children are kinder when Grandma and Grandpa are involved in their lives | Science News | Scoop.it
(PhysOrg.com) -- Grandparents love to boast about their grandkids’ accomplishments, and now a new study gives them credit for helping their young grandchildren be a little kinder and – in some cases – a little smarter.
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Menopause evolved to prevent competition between mother and daughter-in-law, researchers say

Menopause evolved to prevent competition between mother and daughter-in-law, researchers say | Science News | Scoop.it
The menopause evolved, in part, to prevent competition between a mother and her new daughter-in-law, according to research published today in the journal Ecology Letters.
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Faithful females who choose good providers key to evolutionary shift to modern family, study finds

Faithful females who choose good providers key to evolutionary shift to modern family, study finds | Science News | Scoop.it
In early human evolution, when faithful females began to choose good providers as mates, pair-bonding replaced promiscuity, laying the foundation for the emergence of the institution of the modern family, a new study finds.
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In environmental disasters, families respond with conflict, denial, silence

In environmental disasters, families respond with conflict, denial, silence | Science News | Scoop.it

Environmental disasters impact individuals and communities; They also affect how family members communicate with each other, sometimes in surprising ways.

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Why Men Want Sons and Women Want Daughters

Why Men Want Sons and Women Want Daughters | Science News | Scoop.it
New research from Queen's University shows that people have an intrinsic desire to leave something of themselves behind for the future.
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Facial recognition software spots family resemblance - tech - 07 December 2011 - New Scientist

Facial recognition software spots family resemblance - tech - 07 December 2011 - New Scientist | Science News | Scoop.it

Jiwen Lu of Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and his colleagues trained a piece of software to determine whether or not a pair of photos shows a parent and child. To do this, the team used a database of public figures and their parents or children - such as French president Nicolas Sarkozy and his son Jean - and fed the program 320 pairs each of parent-child matches and mismatches. The program analyses pictures one pixel at a time and looks for trends in the surrounding pixels.

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The mathematics of your next family reunion | plus.maths.org

The mathematics of your next family reunion | plus.maths.org | Science News | Scoop.it

Keeping track of family relations can be difficult. If Edna marries your mother’s uncle Charlie, what should you call her? If your father’s cousin’s daughter just had a baby boy, how should you two be introduced? Who is your “great great aunt”, and how can you find your “first cousin twice removed”? Fortunately, a bit of mathematical logic can clarify who should be called what, and why – and even measure the degree of genetic similarity between different relatives.

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