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Carnegie Mellon has recently joined an initiative to study behavioral disorders, including autism. According to researchers, one sign of autism is if children show a strong affinity for only one stuffed animal.

CMU joins NSF-funded initiative to research behavioral disorders

CMU has been funded by the NSF to research behavioral disorders, including sensing early signs of autism in children.

The greenhouse effect is caused by sunlight that enters the Earth’s atmosphere, creating heat. Some sunlight reflects off the Earth into space, while some is trapped by the atmosphere due to gases like carbon dioxide.

How Things Work: The Greenhouse Effect

Without the greenhouse effect, the Earth would be held at a temperature too cold to sustain life as we know it. How exactly does this process work?

Many activities, including playing the piano and hitting a tennis ball, involve a great amount of muscle memory. In these cases, it can require years for muscle memory to become proficient. Creating muscle memory connections in the brain may be easier as a child, when neural pathways have not yet been completely formed.

HealthTalk: Muscle Memory

Muscle memory is crucial to our survival, and lets us remember how to perform certain tasks and use tools.

Counseling sessions to quit smoking will now be covered by Medicare.

SciTech Briefs

NASA's Kepler satellite has discovered a planet 2,000 light years away that may be 1.5 times the size of earth.

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