Can You See The Emotions I Hear? Brain Imaging Study Says Yes
By observing the pattern of activity in the brain, scientists have discovered they can "read" whether a person just heard words spoken in anger, joy, relief, or sadness. The discovery is the first to show that emotional information is represented by...
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Cereal And Milk Is The New Sports Supplement
A bowl of whole-grain cereal is as good as a sports drink for recovery after exercise. Research has shown that the readily available and relatively inexpensive breakfast food is as effective as popular, carbohydrate-based "sports drinks."img...
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General Science | Friday May 15
Breakthrough In The Treatment Of Bacterial Meningitis
It can take just hours after the symptoms appear for someone to die from bacterial meningitis. Now, after years of research, experts have finally discovered how the deadly meningococcal bacteria is able to break through the body's natural defense...
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Playing For Keeps: Computerized Play Helps Elderly Stay Sharp
Researchers have built a computerized play platform for elderly people. Field testing shows that the system keeps elderly players mentally sharp, stimulates socialization, and can alert caregivers to developing problems.img...
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Single Electron Captured In Tunable Carbon Nanotube Quantum Dot
Researchers have successfully captured a single electron in a highly tunable carbon nanotube double quantum dot. This was made possible by a new approach for producing ultraclean nanotubes. Moreover, the researchers discovered a new sort of tunneling...
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General Science | Friday May 15
Cancer: Dealing With Blocked Bile Ducts
A consequence of the different cancers of the hepatobiliary system is blocked bile ducts. However, artificial catheters known as "stents" can remediate this problem. Stents are medical implants which reopen narrowed bile ducts to allow the outflow of...
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Ancient Trading Raft Sails Anew
For the first time in nearly 500 years, a full-size balsa-wood raft just like those used in pre-Columbian Pacific trade took to the water on Sunday, May 10. Only this time, instead of the Pacific coast between Mexico and Chile where such rafts carried...
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Key Protein Regulating Inflammation May Prove Relevant To Controlling Sepsis
Singapore scientists have identified the protein WIP1 as the molecular "brake" that curbs severe inflammation in the body. The findings may prove relevant to developing more effective treatments against sepsis, the severe inflammatory condition caused...
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Managing Douglas-fir Forests For Diversity
Creating diverse forests for multiple uses is important to natural resource managers and landowners. The findings from a 1983 study conducted in southwestern Oregon provide forest managers with information that offers choices when managing land for a...
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General Science | Friday May 15
For Northern Shrimp Populations In North Atlantic, Timing Is Everything
Even for Northern shrimp which support commercial fisheries worldwide, timing is everything in life. The tiny creatures, eaten in shrimp rolls and shrimp salad, occupy a pivotal role in the oceanic food chain and may serve as early indicators of...
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Age-related Eye Disease May Be Associated With Cognitive Impairment
Older adults with low scores on tests of cognitive function, including thinking, learning and memory appear more likely to have the early stages of the eye disease age-related macular degeneration, according to a new report.img...
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General Science | Friday May 15
Herpes Medication Does Not Reduce Risk Of HIV Transmission
Acyclovir, a drug widely used as a safe and effective treatment to suppress herpes simplex virus-2, which is the most common cause of genital herpes, does not reduce the risk of HIV transmission when taken by people infected with both HIV and HSV-2.img...
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General Science | Thursday May 14
Working On The Railroad? Using Concrete Could Help Environment
Wood or concrete? Railroads around the world face that decision as they replace millions of deteriorating cross ties, also known as railway sleepers, those rectangular objects used as a base for railroad tracks. A new report concludes that emissions of...
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General Science | Thursday May 14
Vaccine Slows Progression Of Skeletal Muscle Disorder
A potential vaccine for Alzheimer's disease also has been shown in mice to slow the weakening of muscles associated with inclusion body myositis, a disorder that affects the elderly.img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/~4/HY99jbDkJ90"...
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General Science | Thursday May 14
Basking Sharks: Disappearing Act Of World's Second Largest Fish Explained
Researchers have discovered where basking sharks -- the world's second largest fish -- hide out for half of every year. The discovery revises scientists' understanding of the iconic species and highlights just how little we still know about even the...
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Moral Judgment Falters As Time Crunch Sets In
When it comes to the crunch, we are not as moral as we like to think. The closer in time an event gets, the more our moral judgment falters.img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/~4/wXEqHZoP3so" height="1" width="1"/
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General Science | Thursday May 14
Mathematical Model Developed To Predict Immune Response To Influenza
Researchers have developed a mathematical model to predict immune responses to infection with influenza A viruses, including novel viruses such as the emergent 2009 influenza A (H1N1). This model examines the contributions of specific sets of immune...
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General Science | Thursday May 14
Sniffing Out The Physical Condition Of Other Animals Of The Same Species
The sense of smell (olfactory mechanism) supplies an abundance of important information: detecting and evaluating the quality of foodstuffs, remotely perceiving possible hazards, recognizing territorial boundaries, subconsciously activating memories...
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General Science | Thursday May 14
Can Happiness Be Inherited?
Our feelings in our lifetime can affect our children. A wide range of chemicals that our brain generates when we are in different moods could affect 'germ cells' (eggs and sperm), the cells that ultimately produce the next generation. Such natural...
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General Science | Thursday May 14
New Method For Producing Transparent Conductors Developed
Researchers have outlined a new method for producing a graphene -- carbon nanotube (G-CNT) hybrid, which is a high performance transparent conductor. Placing both graphite oxide and carbon nanotubes in a hydrazine solution produces not only graphene,...
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General Science | Thursday May 14
Milestone Study On Blood Pressure Medications Confirmed
New research supports the findings of a landmark drug comparison study published in 2002 in which a diuretic drug or "water pill" outperformed other medications for high blood pressure.img...
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General Science | Thursday May 14
Visualizing Virus Replication In Three Dimensions
Dengue fever is the most common infectious disease transmitted by mosquitoes -- some 100 million people around the world are infected. A new three-dimensional model shows the location in the human cell where the virus is reproduced. This research...
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General Science | Thursday May 14
Molecular Defect Involved In Hearing Loss Discovered
Scientists have elucidated the action of a protein, harmonin, which is involved in the mechanics of hearing. This finding sheds new light on the workings of mechanotransduction, the process by which cells convert mechanical stimuli into electrical...
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General Science | Thursday May 14
Neandertals Sophisticated And Fearless Hunters, New Analysis Shows
Neandertals, the supposedly 'stupid' cousins of modern humans, were capable of capturing the most impressive animals. This indicates that Neandertals were anything but dim. An analysis of their daily forays for food revealed that the hunting was very...
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General Science | Thursday May 14
Extraordinary Perception Deficit Sheds Light On How We See
To the casual observer, the student seemed absolutely normal. Though she often made mistakes in spelling and math, those were usually ascribed to carelessness. After all, the girl -- known here as "AH" to protect her anonymity -- was a top student in...
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String Theory: Equivalence Principle In Space Test
Since Galileo Galilei and Newton, the assumption is valid that inert and heavy mass are equivalent. This is, however, questioned by new physical theories such as the String theory. Now, the equivalence principle is put to test with so far unachieved...
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General Science | Thursday May 14
Ginseng: Nature's Anti-inflammatory?
Laboratory experiments have demonstrated the immunological effects of ginseng. Researchers have shown that the herb, much used in traditional Chinese and other Asian medicine, does have anti-inflammatory effects.img...
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General Science | Thursday May 14
Microwave Technique Successful In Treatment Of Liver Tumors, Surgeon Shows
A surgeon who has developed a pioneering technique using microwaves to destroy liver tumors has treated more than 100 patients in the UK and other patients are now being treated internationally. The treatment of more than 100 patients with liver cancer...
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General Science | Thursday May 14
Ivory Venus Figurine From The Swabian Jura Rewrites Prehistory
Archaeologist report that the 2008 excavations at Hohle Fels Cave in the Swabian Jura of southwestern Germany recovered a female figurine carved from mammoth ivory from the basal Aurignacian deposit. This figurine, which is the earliest depiction of a...
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General Science | Thursday May 14
An Amnesic Patient With An Extraordinary Distorted Memory
If somebody asks you ???Do you remember what you did on March 13, 1985???? you are very likely to answer ???I don??™t know???, even if your memory is excellent. Researchers have now been studying a patient with severe amnesia reported detailed false...
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General Science | Thursday May 14
Liquid Lens Creates Tiny Flexible Laser On A Chip
Like tiny Jedi knights, tunable fluidic micro lenses can focus and direct light at will to count cells, evaluate molecules or create on-chip optical tweezers, according to engineers. They may also provide imaging in medical devices, eliminating the...
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General Science | Thursday May 14
Novel Therapy May Prove Effective In Treatment Of 30 Percent Of Cancers
A ground-breaking Canada-wide clinical trial has shown that a common anti-viral drug, ribavirin, can be beneficial in the treatment of cancer patients.img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/~4/oezef26dmzk" height="1" width="1"/
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Spitzer Catches Star Cooking Up Comet Crystals
Scientists have long wondered how tiny silicate crystals, which need sizzling high temperatures to form, have found their way into frozen comets, born in the deep freeze of the solar system's outer edges. The crystals would have begun as...
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General Science | Thursday May 14
Age-related Difficulty Recognizing Words Predicted By Brain Differences
Older adults may have difficulty understanding speech because of age-related changes in brain tissue, according to new research. The study shows that older adults with the most difficulty understanding spoken words had less brain tissue in a region...
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New Nanotube Coating Enables Novel Laser Power Meter
The US military can now calibrate high-power laser systems, such as those intended to defuse unexploded mines, more quickly and easily thanks to a novel nanotube-coated power measurement device.img...
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