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1. Teenager Moves Video Icons Just By Imagination
   10-11-2006 · ScienceDaily
   Teenage boys and computer games go hand-in-hand. Now a St. Louis-area teenage boy and a computer game have gone hands-off, thanks to a unique experiment conducted by a team of neurosurgeons, neurologists, and engineers at Washington University in St. Louis. The boy, a 14-year-old who suffers from epilepsy, is the first teenager to play a two-dimensional video game, Space Invaders, using only the signals from his brain to make movements.
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2. Video games shown to improve vision
   03-15-2007 · EurekAlert!
   According to a new study from the University of Rochester, playing action video games sharpens vision. In tests of visual acuity that assess the ability to see objects accurately in a cluttered space, game players scored higher than their non-playing peers.
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3. Video games activate reward regions of brain in men more than women, Stanford study finds
   02-04-2008 · EurekAlert!
   In a first-of-its-kind imaging study, the Stanford University School of Medicine researchers have shown that the part of the brain that generates rewarding feelings is more activated in men than women during video-game play.
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4. Virtual game helps children escape realities of burn unit
   10-08-2007 · EurekAlert!
   Nationwide Children's Hospital is using virtual reality games to distract patients while nurses attend to their burn wounds. A study is underway to determine the level of pain relief this method provides.
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5. Math Trek: Mathematical Fortune-Telling
   10-27-2007 · Science News Online
   A researcher uses game theory to predict the outcome of political and business challenges, including the current dispute with Iran over nuclear technology.
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6. Using video-game technology to find oil & gas
   09-19-2007 · EurekAlert!
   What do video games and seismic explorations have in common? Both require very demanding computer applications that call for the ability to process massive quantities of data rapidly. Using computer technology originally co-designed by IBM for video-game consoles, University of Houston seismic researchers are employing this extremely fast technology to more effectively target oil reserves. IBM is supporting the UH Mission-Oriented Seismic Research Program with a system that represents a new generation of powerful supercomputers.
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7. Football game days tops for drinking among college students
   11-19-2007 · EurekAlert!
   College students drink larger amounts of alcohol on football game days, comparable to well-known drinking days such as New Year's Eve and Halloween, according to research from The University of Texas at Austin. Compared to nongame Saturdays, male college students increased their drinking for all games. Women who tended to spend a significant amount of time with friends drank more heavily during away games.
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8. Study examines video game play among adolescents
   07-02-2007 · EurekAlert!
   On school days, teen boys who play video games appear to spend less time reading and teen girls who play video games appear to spend less time doing homework than those who do not play video games, according to a report in the July issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. Overall, video game players did not spend less time than non-video game players interacting with parents and friends.
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9. Violent TV, games pack a powerful public health threat
   11-27-2007 · EurekAlert!
   Watching media violence significantly increases the risk that a viewer or video game player will behave aggressively in both the short and long term, according to a University of Michigan study published today in a special issue of the Journal of Adolescent Health.
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10. Entanglement Unties A Tough Quantum Computing Problem
    09-30-2006 · ScienceDaily
    Error correction coding is a fundamental process that underlies all of information science, but the task of adapting classical codes to quantum computing has long bumped up against what seemed to be a fundamental limitation. But a new approach by three theorists working at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering dramatically changes the rules of the game. Adding entangled photons as part of the message stream, they report in Science, opens the door to use of the entire error coding playbook.
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