His mother's increasing deafness led the young man to study acoustics -- the way we hear and how sounds are made.

VOA: special.2010.05.14

The findings made it possible to better study pain drugs and learn how they affect the body.

VOA: special.2009.02.10

A new study used a computer model to predict how just three grams less a day would affect heart disease in the United States.

VOA: special.2010.01.27

They had all moved to the city to study how to write music.

VOA: special.2009.09.11

And,it provides examples of how to search for and study this animal.

VOA: special.2009.07.07

They wanted to study how non-native speakers pronounce different sounds.

VOA: special.2011.08.04

So I think this study gives investigators who are working with cancer survivors some ideas as to how best,perhaps, to think about prescribing a lifestyle."

VOA: standard.2010.07.14

A previous study by Clayton's lab had shown that, as a young finch first learns how to sing, hundreds of genes in its brain quickly respond, producing more or less protein.

VOA: standard.2010.04.05

Ruhli and his team of researchers at the Swiss Mummy Institute have just completed the first feasibility study of how they could use the technology to reveal a mummy's secrets, without damaging the mummy.

VOA: standard.2010.05.05

While there is advice aplenty on how to lose pounds or kilograms, a new study focuses on middle aged and older women who maintain normal body weight, or BMI (Body Mass Index) and do not diet.

VOA: standard.2010.03.30

City College of New York professor Erica Lubetkin is one of the authors of a new study that looked at the loss of quality life years due to obesity and how that changed between 1993 and 2008.

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

"One of the things that this study actually allows us to do, is to begin to get a sense as to how much of the burden of infection is an added burden on a patient who is already at risk of dying because of the underlying diseases that led them to be in the intensive care unit,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.08