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Computer simulations of the brain can predict language recovery in stroke survivors

Posted: 04 Jun 2021 06:36 PM PDT

Speech rehabilitation experts can predict how well a patient will recover from aphasia, a disorder caused by damage to the part of the brain responsible for producing language.

Study of past South Asian monsoons suggests stronger monsoon rainfall in the future

Posted: 04 Jun 2021 06:36 PM PDT

New research finds that increases in monsoon rainfall over the past million years were linked with increases in atmospheric CO2 and the import of moisture from the southern hemisphere, which suggests stronger rains in the future as CO2 levels rise.

Mining-related deforestation in the Amazon

Posted: 04 Jun 2021 06:35 PM PDT

If you're wearing gold jewelry right now, there's a good chance it came from an illegal mining operation in the tropics and surfaced only after some rainforest was sacrificed, according to researchers who studied regulatory efforts to curb some of these environmentally damaging activities.