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Expectant and new parents often turn to the internet for parenting prep, but it turns out that dads often don鈥檛 seem to find the information they say they need about pregnancy, parenthood and routes to their own mental health and well-being. Now, a new study from a Canadian team led by the Research Institute of the 9I制作厂免费 Health Centre (RI-MUHC) with funding from global men鈥檚 health charity the Movember Foundation highlights just what soon-to-be and new fathers want to see in a dad-focused website and how best to meet those needs.
Montreal-based historian Christopher Goscha, US-based historian Walter Scheidel and British historian Daniel Beer听are the three contenders for the international Cundill History Prize. 听听
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The 2017 finalists are:
A new research centre in Montreal will help lift the shroud of mystery surrounding autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and lead to the development of better diagnostic tools and more effective therapies for people with autism.
Prof. Niladri Basu, 9I制作厂免费, is one of the Commissioners on The Lancet Commission on Pollution and Health which was released today.
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2.听听听听 electronic waste recycling (E-waste). Does work on the world鈥檚 largest e-waste dump in Agbogbloshie, Ghana.
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The discovery of a gravitational wave caused by the merger of two neutron stars, reported today by a collaboration of scientists from around the world, opens a new era in astronomy. It marks the first time that scientists have been able to observe a cosmic event with both light waves -- the basis of traditional astronomy -- and gravitational waves, the ripples in space-time predicted a century ago by Albert Einstein鈥檚 general theory of relativity.
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By Shawn Hayward
Whether it is dancing or just tapping one foot to the beat, we all experience how auditory signals like music can induce movement. Now new research suggests that motor signals in the brain actually sharpen sound perception, and this effect is increased when we move in rhythm with the sound.
By Julie Robert
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