understand
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The researchers discovered that people tend to blink less when they are working harder to understand speech in noisy settings.
From Science Daily
"We also want to replicate other fundamental components known from electronics for our atoms and understand them precisely at the microscopic level."
From Science Daily
Because these body maps appear to play a role in emotional understanding, they may help advance research in social psychology and clinical care.
From Science Daily
Ongoing analysis of these fossils is expected to improve scientists' understanding of how this dinosaur fits into the broader evolutionary family tree.
From Science Daily
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is understood to have voluntarily surrendered his gun licence after a visit from the Metropolitan Police.
From BBC
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